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"en.20120418.18.3-261-000"2
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"I abstained on the two reports on the insertion of the so called Irish ‘guarantees’ into the EU Treaties. I could not vote in favour as these ‘guarantees’ were nothing more than a cynical attempt to deceive the Irish people. These ‘guarantees’ were put together in an attempt to give some political cover to the Irish and EU establishment, to undemocratically cast aside the will of the Irish people and re-arrange a second referendum to force the Treaty through. These ‘guarantees’ were also used to give the impression that the concerns of the Irish people were listened to and the Treaty’s content was changed in some way. This was a lie. The content of the Lisbon Treaty is completely unchanged. The Treaty remained a treaty that undermines workers’ rights, supports privatisation, erodes democracy and further militarises the EU. The political establishment also lied in saying that Lisbon ratification will create jobs and economic recovery. Since the referendum, we have seen the continued haemorrhaging of jobs, with 80 000 jobs being lost and continued destruction of the economy and people’s lives due to the implementation of neoliberal austerity policies which the Lisbon Treaty supports."@en1
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