Lisbon
I was asked in the comments of my previous post about my thoughts on the Lisbon Treaty.
That’s two guys putting up No posters on a flyover near to my house. Just two guys in a Ford Transit park on a bridge, hop out and affix the posters either side of the bridge and drive off, presumably to their next spot. I stopped to watch them for a while and saw one of the guys actually hop over the barrier onto the little foot-wide space to tie the zip-tie thing. I’m not that scared of heights but the thought of nothing in the war of a barrier between me and a motor way scares me somewhat.
As for the actual voting, I would vote Yes were I able to vote. The problem is I don’t actually know all that much about Lisbon itself. I probably shouldn’t even be blogging out this because it’s such a massive can of worms.
Wikipedia has an article but that’s confusing me more. Writing this post really has opened my mind about how little I know about it all. I know that the naysayers think our neutrality would be challenged but the Yes folk says that’s not a problem. I really don’t know, and this post is becoming shockingly rambly. Shame on me
On another note, the local primary school (well, one of them, we have two) is totally everything I associate with voting on stuff. Elections and Lisbon 1.0 were voted upon there and (I imagine) Lisbon 2.0 will be done the same way. I didn’t go to that particular primary school (went to the other local one) so my view of it is purely going through the big red door, turn the corner and into room 18, polling station 1. It was the same when we lived in Tipperary – the other local primary school was the ‘election place’.
So, 310 words later, you know I’d vote Yes, but I’m not sure why
Vote maybe!
Simon K
23 Sep 09 at 8:36 pm
[...] doesn’t quite know what Lisbon’s about – he’s lucky, in any case, that he can’t vote. [...]
ROSEMARY MAC CABE » Answering prayers
24 Sep 09 at 3:45 pm
if I didn’t know anything about Lisbon I would check to see what people who should (and probably do) know intend voting, and vote accordingly. God knows we emulate and copy all kinds of pop and sport stars in how we dress/behave etc. I don’t think it would be going over the top to trust those in the know… and by the way, all of our ministers, practically all of our TDs, most of our political journalists, 90% of business leaders amongst others, think we should vote yes. Since I trust these people (leave out the journalists) to run the country, I’d be happy enough to trust them to guide me in voting direction. I know many people are not though… preferring “nobody’s going to tell me…. etc”, but in most cases this is just arrogance/stubbornness.
den15
24 Sep 09 at 4:42 pm
and Dad wouldn’t know a thing about stubbornness would he..? :)
Tommy
24 Sep 09 at 5:01 pm