JUNE 12, 2008: THE DATE IRELAND CAN STOP THE EUSSR AND SAVE A DEMOCRATIC EUROPE

BBC:

Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern says the vote on the Lisbon Treaty will be held in the second week of June.

He told the Dail - the lower house of parliament - that a final decision on a date was still to be made.

"The government have more or less signed off on the date. It is really a question about the day of the week".

Ireland is the only member state planning a vote on the treaty which reforms the EU's institutions and replaces the ill-fated EU constitution.

In 2001, Irish voters created a problem for Brussels by rejecting the Nice Treaty although they approved it the following year.

A vote against the Lisbon Treaty would jeopardise efforts to bring it into force in January 2009 as it has to be ratified by all 27 member states.

I pray the Irish do what's right: defeat the treaty.

The Brits would do it if they got the chance - which is why the left-wing Labour Party reneged on a promise and is in the process of ratifying the treaty. BBC:

EU treaty bill clears the Commons

The government says a referendum is not needed on the treaty
The controversial bill which will ratify the Lisbon Treaty has cleared its final Commons stages.

MPs voted by 346 votes to 206 to approve the EU (Amendment) Bill, after topic-by-topic debates over six weeks.

For the Conservatives, William Hague accused ministers of "ramming through" the bill without a referendum.

But Foreign Secretary David Miliband [whise father was a major SOCIALIST] said the treaty was good for the UK and said Conservative "scaremongering" was "dangerous and deluded".

The Bill, which will now go to the Lords, will ratify the Lisbon Treaty - which was drawn up to replace the EU constitution, after that was rejected by French and Dutch voters in 2005.

'Prosperity agenda'

Last week the Conservatives lost a vote on their proposal to put the treaty to a referendum - something opposed by the government and Lib Dems who say the treaty does not have constitutional implications.

AS OTHERS HAVE WRITTEN, the west derides Putin for his anti-democratic ways, and then rams through this HUGELY UNPOPULAR treaty without ANY democracy.