IHT reveals depths of EU's Deceitfulness!

Read this unsurprising but absolutely scandalous report on the real depths and widespread nature of the plot to dupe the Irish voters into voting 'YES' to the Lisbon Treaty. The shame spreads across the entire European Continent across all 27 member states of the EU. UPDATE: As the link to this item has suddenly vanished from the IHT front page. it is worthwhile now recording some of the main points: And with opinion polls showing much of the Irish electorate undecided, the possibility that the Lisbon Treaty may be rejected has sent unfamiliar tremors of fear through the ranks of Europe's top bureaucrats, who rarely have to trouble with voters. That has meant a kind of unacknowledged but collective halt on anything controversial, particularly if it might upset Irish sensibilities............ The view that Brussels has been gripped by a go-slow is shared widely. "We all know this is happening, but we are all denying it - so you won't get me saying anything on the record," one EU diplomat said. But the evidence is all around. In March the European Union's 27 heads of government held one of their least eventful meetings in recent memory. By contrast, their summit meeting next month - which starts June 19, after the Irish vote - has a crowded agenda including climate change, the vexed issue of biofuels, food price rises, planned laws on carbon dioxide emissions from cars and the role of the new European president. Initiatives likely to worry or annoy Irish voters are being played down or delayed............. Not every difficult issue can be avoided, of course. But those that emerge tend to get an Ireland-friendly spin....................