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Tue 09 Sep 2009Voters should beware the advice of false friends across Irish Sea
OPINION:The Irish vote on the Lisbon Treaty is a good one for British Eurosceptics only if it is a No vote
IT WAS British Conservative prime minister Lord Salisbury who grandly announced in a debate in the London parliament at the end of the 19th century that he would “no more give the vote to the Irish than to the Hottentot”. That vulgar imperial Old Etonian racism has today been replaced by a crude Old Etonian anti-Europeanism in the ruling circles of the English dominant classes and especially in the Conservative Party.
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