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Jump To Comment: 2 1Think the Sunday Tribune's head line summed up the E U heads "respect" for our vote
(and indeed the opinions of most of its citizens in opinion poll after opinion poll)
"An Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, requests the pleasure of your company at a polling station near you in Spring 2009 to vote YES...or leave the EU"
An excellent analysis of the vote and the campaigns by Chekov Feeny published by the Irish Left Review is to be found below...
They're a stubborn lot, and their friends in the media will keep up the drivel, rather than move on as most of the country has.
Today on Limerick Live 95FM, they had the most novel reason for discussing the Lisbon Treaty 12 days after the vote.
I tuned in to hear Ed Myers say that he had been away during the referendum, and only found out this morning that Ireland voted no! (what a journalist eh?)
So he had on some guy to splutter on that people didn't understand the treaty, and were worried about abortion and the EU army, and that the Yes side hadn't got their act together, cos people were picking unfairly on Bertie, leaving Cowen little time to push the Treaty while the NO side were out talking to people. The caller said he hadn't voted because he didn't understand it, and people who didn't understand it shouldn't have voted at all.
Ed Myers even had the gall to waste more air time with questions like, "was it close?", "what was the margin like?"
To which his caller said it was "only 110,000".
How contrived is that, even for Ed Myers, to pretend like his researchers couldn't have provided him with that info.
He spoonfed the guy suggestions for the motives of the No side, all of them negative reasons, being scared or misinformed, or giving the two fingers to the government. He didn't suggest a single valid reason to vote No, and his guest was not likely to either, so Myers wasn't playing devil's advocate on the issue.
I'm sure that other radio stations are still flogging this dead horse in the hope of sowing seeds of doubt in people who chose their own judgment over the advice of professional liars in the Dail.
As for a FF survey one the outcome, I wouldn't trust any report from the government on why people voted no.
They would twist the results to try give justification for a re-run i.e. people voted NO for the WRONG reasons, e.g. they simply didn't understand it, so we'll do a better explanation next time.