"Lisbon Treaty failed to register, says Martin"

From The Irish Times*:

Asked where things went wrong[sic], Mr Martin, director of Fianna Fáil’s referendum campaign, said: "People on the doorstep were saying 'I still don't know enough about this treaty'." This was a "significant" factor, the Minister claimed.

Er ... haven't you had about four years since the Constitution was first put to the vote to re-educate the masses as to the joys of 'government by international treaty'? And billions of taxpayers' hard-earned to spend?

As St John of Redwood suggested this morning, how about a statement along these lines...

“The EU is grateful to the Irish people, and to the French and Dutch people before them, for voting No to this Treaty. It understands that if the British people and others had been allowed a vote they too would have voted it down. The Constitution will be abandoned, the EU will make no further demands for the transfer of powers, and it will look at ways to make itself less intrusive and less annoying to the people it wants to serve and who pay its wages”

* Via Tim Almond.