From telegraph.co.uk

Future referendums will be ignored whether they are held in Ireland or elsewhere, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (Knights of Malta), the architect of the European Union Constitution said.

The former President of France drafted the old Constitution that was rejected by French and Dutch voters three years ago before being resurrected as the Lisbon EU Treaty, itself shunned by the Irish two weeks ago.
Mr Giscard d'Estaing told the Irish Times that Ireland's referendum rejection would not kill the Treaty, despite a legal requirement of unanimity from all the EU's 27 member states.

"We are evolving towards majority voting because if we stay with unanimity, we will do nothing," he said.

"It is impossible to function by unanimity with 27 members. This time it's Ireland; the next time it will be somebody else."

"Ireland is one per cent of the EU".

Mr Giscard d'Estaing also admitted that, unlike his original Constitutional Treaty, the Lisbon EU Treaty had been carefully crafted to confuse the public.

"What was done in the [Lisbon] Treaty, and deliberately, was to mix everything up. If you look for the passages on institutions, they're in different places, on different pages," he said.

"Someone who wanted to understand how the thing worked could with the Constitutional Treaty, but not with this one."

France and Germany are putting pressure on Ireland to hold a second referendum which would allow the Lisbon Treaty to come into force before European elections on June 4 2009.

Mr Giscard d'Estaing believes "there is no alternative" to a second Irish vote, a view shared by Nicolas Sarkozy, the French President.

Mr Sarkozy, who takes over the EU's rotating presidency next week, will use a Brussels summit on October 15 to force Ireland to find a way out of Europe's Treaty difficulties.

"Everyone agrees it has to be sorted out by the time of European elections," he said at the weekend.

Václav Klaus, the Czech President has continued to insist that the Lisbon Treaty "cannot come into force" after the Irish vote.

"The EU cannot ignore its own rules. The Lisbon Treaty has been roundly and democratically rejected by Ireland, and it therefore cannot come into force," he told El Pais newspaper.

"Any attempt to ignore this fact and make recourse to pressure and political manipulation to move the treaty forward would have disastrous consequences."

Mark François, Conservative spokesman on Europe, also insisted that it was time that European politicians started to respect the Irish No vote.

"The Irish people gave an emphatic No to the Treaty of Lisbon on a record turnout and it would be good for politicians of all countries to respect this democratic decision," he said.

"The point is particularly clear to us here in Britain as the Irish were fortunate to be given a referendum which we were denied by our Government."

An opinion poll for the newspaper Libération has shown 44 per cent of the French want Ireland to vote again and 26 per cent want the ratification process to continue without Ireland.
But a quarter of those polled want to abandon the Treaty and 52 per cent think the Irish No vote is going to dominate Mr Sarkozy's EU presidency.

...and no one seems to care. Maybe I'm not the minority, maybe these are strong words. I just must call it what it is. What else can you call it? What am I talking about? The Lisbon Treaty getting Royal Assent on 19/06/08, AFTER the Irish "No vote".

As it stands The UK has already handed over:

• 100% control of it's environment. Seaside, countryside, anything considered environment as well as health and safety.
• 100% control of fishing.
• 100% control of farming.
• 100% control of trade policy.
• 100% control immigration policy
• 100% primacy of EU laws or directives over UK laws.

That's just the tip of the iceberg. I haven't gone into the effects that losing control of these areas has already had. With the ratification of all 27 EU member states the UK hands over the following:

• 100% control of foreign policy.
• 100% control of legal system. Including law enforcement. The treaty also makes fundamental changes such as no trial by jury, citizens are guilty until proven innocent, citizens can be detained without warrant or charge up to 9 months, there will be no such thing as double jeopardy .
• 100% control of armed forces to EU command.
• 100% control of banking, interest rates, inflation etc. As there will be no Pound, only the Euro which is controlled by the European Central Bank.
• 100% of all gold and metal reserves will be handed over to the European Central Bank.

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