José Manuel Barroso: Ireland, I breaka you legs!The “strong arm” tactics of EU Commission head, José Manuel Barroso, would even bring a smile to the face of Al Capone.
Telegraph UK: The row over the new EU Treaty meanwhile took a new turn yesterday after José Manuel Barroso, the Commission President, warned Irish voters that they will “pay” if they reject the document in a referendum next month. Speaking in Brussels on Monday night, Mr Barroso attempted to head off growing opposition to the Treaty by threatening outcast status for Ireland.
”If there was a ‘No’ in Ireland or in another country, it would have a very negative effect for the EU. We will all pay a price for it, Ireland included, if this is not done in a proper way,” he said. Officials fear that advanced plans to create a new EU President, Foreign Minister and European diplomatic service will be sunk by an Irish referendum rejection on June 12.”
So if we understand Mr.Barroso correctly, there will be repercussions if the Irish fail to “vote wisely” in their referendum vote on the Lisbon Treaty (read = EU constitution). Voting no will bring out the worst in the “Commission” and the Irish will have hell to pay for their defiance. Alfonso is indeed smiling. *L* KGS
Update: Gates of Vienna has much more on EU ruffian tactics.
Baron B: With the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty coming up in just a couple of weeks, the Powers That Be in the European Union are doing their utmost to silence and disable any opposition to their grand project of total European dictatorship integration. The latest move involves a procedural change in the European Parliament. According to The Telegraph:
Plans to eliminate Eurosceptics as an organised opposition within the European Parliament are expected to be agreed by a majority of MEPs this summer.The European Union assembly’s political establishment is pushing through changes that will silence dissidents by changing the rules allowing Euro-MPs to form political groupings. Richard Corbett, a British Labour MEP, is leading the charge to cut the number of party political tendencies in the Parliament next year, a move that would dissolve UKIP’s pan-European Eurosceptic “Independence and Democracy” grouping.Under the rule change, the largest and most pro-EU groups would tighten their grip on the Parliament’s political agenda and keep control of lavish funding.
In other words, only the big guys will be allowed a seat at the table. The little guys can forget it, and since the Euro-skeptics are — surprise! — a smaller group, they’ll be disallowed.
