Friday - June 13, 2008
vocal campaigners in the call for a British referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
EU treaty: Telegraph campaign for British referendum
By Tom Peterkin in Dublin
Last Updated: 2:48PM BST 13/06/2008The Daily Telegraph has been one of the most vocal campaigners in the call for a British referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
The Let The People Decide petition calling for a referendum has become one of the biggest campaigns in the newspaper’s 152-year history.
People have signed up either on line or via coupons through the post in droves - and at a rate of more than 1,600-a-day at its peak - since it was launched in July last year.
Well over 100,000 people have signed up to the petition and on the eve of Ireland’s poll our leader pages explained why Ireland should vote no.
“As the only EU country to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, Ireland today carries the can for the cowardly evasion of its partners,” the leader said.
The Telegraph has argued that Labour has wriggled out of holding a referendum despite promising to do so in its manifesto for the 2005 election.
The Government made a commitment in its 2005 manifesto to hold a national vote on the EU Constitution before it was halted by the French and Dutch votes.
(I remember that too. It was thought at the time that French would certainly vote yes. But when both they and the Dutch said No way Jose, it sent a shocking message to those who took for granted that others would willingly give away their sovereignty. Then, the powers that be in Brussels tried to ignore the votes and said that the French and Dutch would be given “another chance to vote correctly.” Oh, that went down a bomb. Worse yet, the (then) Blair govt. backed away from a promise to the country that the voters here would have a say thru a referendum. Blair saw the writing on the wall clear as day. There has still been NO referendum on the issue. And make no mistake about it. The ppl do want one. Stay Tuned.)Critics have claimed that the Lisbon Treaty, which replaced the EU Constitution, contains 90 per cent of the original document.
The rejection of the pact by Irish voters will increase pressure on other countries to offer a referendum, although Ireland is the only one of the 27 member states constitutionally bound to do so.
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