Anybody who takes a huff attack and vows to vote UKIP or BNP because we now won’t have a referendum on the already ratified Lisbon Treaty obviously doesn’t care about the thousands of good reasons to vote Conservative and force these morons out.
digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2009/10/03/lisbon-whataboutery/’;
digg_title = ‘Lisbon whataboutery’;
digg_bodytext = ‘Note: regular readers of Slugger O’Toole will call this entire article whataboutery. It is. I’m predicting a possible future here, so don’t hate me if you don’t like the scenario I depict. Please don’t cry, and certainly don’t have nightmares.
I had three strange conversations about Lisbon today, from [...]
digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2009/10/01/vote/’;
digg_title = ‘Lisbon…’;
digg_bodytext = ‘Vote No.
They threatened you
They treated you like a fool
They pretended it was a new document
They didn’t listen to you the first time
Your sovereignty, and the sovereignty of other nations is eroded by the treaty
Whilst I’ve tried to think of all the things that make me proud to be a [...]
digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2009/09/23/jesus-injures-four-in-attack-on-yes-to-lisbon-meeting/’;
digg_title = ‘Jesus injures four in attack on ‘Yes to Lisbon’ meeting’;
digg_bodytext = ‘Gardaí say that it’s a miracle nobody was seriously hurt in the Son of God’s apparently politically motivated attack on a public information meeting last night.
The vicious attack, in which tables were turned over and punches thrown, broke out [...]
digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2009/09/13/wish-i-had-a-vote-on-lisbon/’;
digg_title = ‘Wish I had a vote on Lisbon’;
digg_bodytext = ‘Living as I currently do in Dublin, I see the Lisbon Treaty referendum happening all around me. I am a British citizen, so I have no vote. Quite right, citizens of other nations shouldn’t have a say on the constitution of Ireland.
But, listening [...]
digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2009/09/07/lisbon-treaty-poster-safari-part-two/’;
digg_title = ‘Lisbon Treaty Poster Safari: Part Two’;
digg_bodytext = ‘So in my previous post, I explained that some organisations were putting up really godawful posters for the Lisbon Treaty. And I think most people agree that very many of them are pretty substantially awe-inspiring.
I was awfully inspired on a few of them to [...]
This post will look at some of the Lisbon Treaty referendum posters from two groups, Cóir and ‘We Belong’ critically assessing some of them and then making fun of the rest.
digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2009/09/03/lisbon-referendum-diary-1-a-history-of-mutual-smugness/’;
digg_title = ‘Lisbon Referendum Diary 1. A history of mutual smugness.’;
digg_bodytext = ‘The most amusing thing about the nascent referendum campaign in Ireland is the approach of the two sides. It’s not as oppositional at least in spirit as you might think.
The Pro Lisbon lobby are smug. They got a second referendum, [...]
digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2009/08/31/ireland-gets-a-second-chance-to-get-it-wrong/’;
digg_title = ‘Ireland gets a second chance to get it wrong’;
digg_bodytext = ‘I don’t usually comment on Irish politics. It is, after all, their country, and they can do whatever they want to it. But the latest posters for the Lisbon Treaty Referendum, put up by the intensely nasty campaign group Cóir should [...]
Never has there been a more confused and outrageously smug, self-concerned and out-of-touch election campaign fought in history
