So a few years ago, 2004 if I'm not mistaken, Europe had to vote on the introduction of a new treaty which would take power away from individual countries, making us little more than the USSE, and put a president, who the people dont actually get to vote for, in power. To me, that sounds like the perfect set up for a new facist regime and anyone who dosn't see that is either blind or in on it, but I'll get to that later.

This new treaty would have been all well and good for the bigger countries, at the expense of the smaller ones. I only know the situation with my country in detail, and we would have lost the right to referenda, lost the right to be called a Republic, forced out of neutrality, forced to use nuclear power and would only be reprisented in the EU every 15 years. This new treaty, by the way, was also self-amending, which is against current EU law.

It was voted out by France and Holland and all was well.

Until, in 2008, the Lisbon Treaty came back, and this time France and Holland weren't given a choice. Ireland was allowed to vote, but only because it says in our constitution that we have to. Despite the pressure from politicians, it was voted out yet again, and that should have been the end of it.

But it wasn't. Sarkozy came along and told us to do it again until we get it right.

Come October, and with no reason to doubt the previous results (besides the fact that they weren't good enough), Ireland will have to vote on the Lisbon Treaty again. And we'll vote yes this time because we're good little sheep and we do what we're told.

We will lose our right to have referenda
Europe will run by a president that we dont get to vote for
We will lose are right to control our own taxes, wages, ect.
We will be obliged to accept nuclear power
We will lose our right to neutralty as the Treaty contains a "mutual defence" clause
We will lose the power to block new EU laws we don't want in more than 30 areas, including foreign affairs
The voting power of the smaller countries will be more than halved while the power of the larger countries will be more than doubled
Power will be centralised in Brussels
There will be further privatisation of healthcare and education
We will be obliged to spend more on defence
According to "Article 48", the Treaty is self amending, which is against current EU law because it means we don't get a say in whether it is changed or not


Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but this is any aspiring dictator's dream. If this gets in, I'm out.





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