The Fighting Irish floors Tony Blair with Lisbon Treaty

Looks like most of the Irish still have some fight in them. I know if more nations even gave their people a vote on this issue more nations would turn this Lisbon Treaty down. The “treaty” is really a back door constitution to federalize Europe. I guess we will have to wait and see how the power brokers of Europe get Tony Blair’s EU presidency and all the rest of their European federalization off the floor.

Ireland delivers stunning blow to Europe’s leaders | World news | The Guardian

The long campaign to forge a new dispensation for the European Union descended into panic and uncertainty yesterday when Ireland turned its back on its 26 EU partners and voted down the Lisbon Treaty.

EU leaders in Brussels and governments across the union, particularly Germany and France, were stunned by the Irish verdict, which amounted to a huge vote of no confidence in the way the EU is run.

The referendum in Ireland was the sole popular vote in the EU on the grand plan to give Europe a sitting president and foreign minister, and reconfigure the way the EU is governed. The result left the project severely wounded, perhaps fatally.

The Irish voted by a 7% margin, 53.6 to 46.4, against the treaty, which has already been ratified by 18 EU countries and is expected to be endorsed by the other eight.