What’s next?
Anyone that knows me, knows that I have quite a nose and today I am proud of the noes that managed to block the Lisbon treaty. Okay flippant I know(s), but I feel that my faith in the ability of people not to be rail-roaded into doing what the powers that be dictate has been restored.
There was an awful amount of money thrown into the “yes” campaign, just take a look at the amount of yes posters, when compared to those of the noes. Every parliamentary party except Sinn Fein advocated a yes vote and threw their weight behind behind the campaign, yet we managed to make a stand against pissing away the rights and privileges that so many fought and died for. Don’t get me wrong I am not the type to get the soapbox out or to rant on about the struggles with the English (hardly possible with my broad cockney accent and London upbringing). I have however read quite a bit of Irish history (I may have mentioned my love of history before) and know that this country spent far too long without effective democratic process, to just hand away our rights now, leaving Irish voters practically disenfranchised. I will not even get into the wars fought in Europe to secure freedom and the right to elect by democratic process those who govern.
The question is, as the title says, what is next? I doubt that anyone for a minute believes that the whole process of turning Europe into a super state will just go away. There is too much money at stake and if anything this whole referendum will highlight to the elites of Europe just how inconvenient this whole democracy thing is.
Anyone going to open a book on how soon the next reincarnation of this “treaty”comes around? I am betting it will be within three years.
