EU Commissioner admits that the "Lisbon Treaty has been designed to stifle debate"

It’s worrying enough when it’s only the Eurosceptics can smell the stench that is the Lisbon Treaty, but when EU Commissioners also turn their noses up then something must certainly be up.

Karel de Gucht, EU Commissioner from Belgium has gone on record to admit that the Lisbon Treaty was specifically designed to prevent people from understanding it in order to prevent real debate. He goes on further to say that the European Council made sure that the Lisbon Treaty was unreadable so that no real debates could happen.

It indeed has been a pleasure watching Irish politicians squirm in their seats when asked direct questions about the Lisbon Treaty. Speaking to family from Ireland they certainly were unimpressed by their politicians’ obvious inability to be open about the treaty.

It appears that people intending to vote YES has dropped a few points whilst the NO side has increased its support. I’m not holding out for much hope though. According to the Sunday Times the YES side are outspending the NO side by ten to one; 2.4 million to 270,000.

One thing I am confident about however, is that within 5 years those that voted YES will be regretting ever doing so. I’ve offered a drink to anyone in the Irish side of my family who votes YES and is still happy with their decision in 5 years time.

My prediction is that like in the UK, far right parties like UKIP and the BNP over here will find close cousins in Ireland gathering a lot of support and very fast too.