Yesterday’s RTE Radio’s Saturday View programme amounted to a shameless promotion of the Yes side in the Lisbon Treaty debate, with scarcely an attempt at a veneer of impartiality.
Judge Frank Clarke, Chairman of the Referendum Commission, is a bulwark of the judicial establishment, which has been handing out injunctions like confetti at the instigation of employers, against workers fighting to retain jobs with decent wages and conditions at Thomas Cook, Coca-Cola and MTL.
Judge Clarke’s “interpretation” of the Lisbon Treaty was to downplay the crucial No arguments without outlining the serious arguments we have been making.
To put up RTE correspondent, Sean Whelan, and Irish Times political correspondent Stephen Collins, as impartial observers of the Lisbon Treaty debate is a shameless deception. Both journalists are vehemently pro-Lisbon Treaty, as was obvious from their interventions, not instancing a single downside for the ordinary people of Ireland or Europe.
Quite clearly, the establishment has decided it cannot win Lisbon with a fair debate so are finding devious and dishonest ways to achieve its objections.
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