Originally posted by GJABS
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The Irish were asked to accept the Lisbon Treaty. Let's call this A.
The Irish rejected A because of some clauses. Let's call these X, Y, Z.
The Irish government went to the EU (which included the UK, for the hard of thinking) and said, the Irish can't accept A, but if you change the terms for X, Y and Z we will go back to the Irish electorate and see if this is what they want. The Irish are a sensible people, you see, and know how to negotiate.
So now we have a Treaty that is B = A - X - Y - Z
The Irish people were given a second vote, to accept B. Now, given the Irish people had said that they wanted B, and the EU had offered B, it wasn't much of a surprise that the voters (by a large majority) voted to accept B.
The LIE you idiots put across to your fellow idiots is the Irish were told to go back and vote again on the same Treaty until they accepted it. This is simply not true. The truth is that they were offered A, they rejected it. They were then offered B (which they wanted) and they accepted it.
Come on oh brainy one, your turn. Any more lies you want to peddle?
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