By uber
We’re currently the only country in the EU that has to vote on the Lisbon Reform Treaty.
When it comes to the EU, Irish political debate goes from the stupid to the random. The yes side trot out the dire warnings about lost influence and lost opportunity. They tell us that Ireland will be so hated that the only food we will be able to import will be leftover Soviet-era sausages, still in rusty radioactive cans.
On the other side, the No people warn us that we will all be conscripted into a European Vierte Reich, and that this new super army will be used to oppress the free dictators of the world. The No camp is somewhat undecided as to whether EU fascism is a puppet of American Imperialism, or its own brand.
The most recent additions to this movement have been a rejuvenated Catholic extreme right, who are anti-gay and worry that the EU will make us all gay. As Dixie has shown, the damage that gay rights have done to California have left it a dry, arid wasteland.
My favourite poster is one presented by flickr user Editor_tupp:
The vote is on Thursday, June 12th. In ‘Coven tradition, I am not going to tell you how to vote, but I am going to say that if you don’t vote, you’re letting the terrorists/neo-cons/gays/straights/lolcats* win.
*delete as appropriate
12th of June, 2008
I would have voted, but it seems that my parents disenfranchised me. I registered in Westmeath when I went travelling, and left it there when it became readily apparent that I would be doing the commuter shuffle.
A brief conversation with my dad this morning reveals that sometime in the last year, he had me taken off the register in Westmeath, but neglected to inform me. I am miffed, and voiceless. :(
12th of June, 2008
I was stupidly excited at my first opportunity to exercise my new civic right as an Irish citizen.
I just wished they could have handed out “I Voted!” stickers like they did in DC…