The plan by the Government to issue pro Lisbon Treaty postcards to households around the country is a naked bit of opportunism essentially to get the Fianna Fail view out at the expense of the taxpayers.
The fact is that more than half the taxpayers rejected the Fianna Fail/Government position on Lisbon one year ago. This is therefore a gross abuse of public funds.
This shabby manoeuvre represents yet another betrayal by the Green Party of what it allegedly stood for when in oposition. Then it loudly denounced the use of public funds to finance one side of referendum debates.
This postcard stunt is yet another attempt to throw sand in the eyes of the Irish public in relation to Lisbon II. Not alone do these postcards seek to dress up the so-called guarantees, but Fianna Fail have the cheek to use taxpayers’ money to engage in this cynical exercise. Essentially they are trying to preempt the real debate that must now take place on the worth of these guarantees.
54% of those taxpayers who voted in the last referendum rejected this Treaty, yet instead of allowing for a fair playing field in the re-run of the Treaty, the government is spending 220,000 euros to distribute their arguments alone.
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