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Mon 09 Sep 2009What the Lisbon Treaty will do
IT IS likely that when many voters turn out for the referendum on October 2nd the detailed specifics of the Lisbon Treaty may not be weighing most heavily on their minds. It was ever so.
It is the nature of the referendum process for good or ill. Some will cast their votes because they believe we should be more or less involved in the EU, some over specific policies of the Union and others because, in these difficult times, we would founder if cast adrift. Some because the EU has done us proud in the past. Some simply on the basis that they trust the supporters of one side more. Yet others, one fears, because they feel the Government deserves to be punished.
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