Ex-Libertas director now supports Lisbon Treaty

Euro_Kraut

From today's Irish Times: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0428/1224245518261.html

IRELAND DOES not have the luxury of a second No vote in the Lisbon Treaty referendum and voters should vote Yes, one of the architects of last year’s Libertas campaign has said.

Naoise Nunn, who resigned as executive director of Libertas last September said: “The circumstances have changed: internationally, economically, financially and domestically.

“We don’t have the luxury of doing anything else. I am glad that we had a referendum. We were the only member state to do so, to have a proper debate, or something like a proper debate,” Mr Nunn told The Irish Times

He goes on to talk about dishonesty in the Lisbon debate and how he is not 'washing his dirty linen in pubic' by doing this.

Scofflaw

Interestingly, the architect of Libertas' referendum billboard campaign has changed his mind on Lisbon.

IRELAND DOES not have the luxury of a second No vote in the Lisbon Treaty referendum and voters should vote Yes, one of the architects of last year’s Libertas campaign has said.

Naoise Nunn, who resigned as executive director of Libertas last September said: “The circumstances have changed: internationally, economically, financially and domestically.

“We don’t have the luxury of doing anything else. I am glad that we had a referendum. We were the only member state to do so, to have a proper debate, or something like a proper debate,” Mr Nunn told The Irish Times .

I like that last - "or something like a proper debate" - since Mr Nunn was a major contributor to making it a good deal less than an informed debate:

Mr Nunn is believed to have been behind Libertas’s successful billboard campaign, which focused on the dangers for Ireland if it lost a permanent place at the European Commission.

While he accepted that commissioners act in the European and not the national interest, he said there is a public perception that it is “almost like a senate of the EU”; and “a lot of people felt the loss of that disconnection.

Yes - pity that subtlety was rather lost in the billboard campaign - Vote No, Keep Our Commissioner.

cordially,
Scofflaw

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Euro_Kraut

Another tough break for Mr Ganley. This running candidates in 27 countries without any policies is proving tougher than he imagined.