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If you don’t fancy delving into Declan Ganly’s business interests - and why would you not want to? - take a gander at yesterdays Grand Launch of the uber-cool Rock the Vote and deliver your best caption below.
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A second Irish referendum? Eurocrats have a better idea
Dan Hannan at the Telegraph reckons the plan in Brussles is not for a second referendum but instead to parachute in sections of the Lisbon Treaty via legislation.
"Are Americans and Europeans simply more compassionate than Asians?" asks Ian Buruma. Asking why it is that Chinese and Malaysian warships are not sitting of the Burmese coast with food. Thought provoking? Or a bit prejudiced?
Jurge Habermas once argued that the EU could provide a model for a new constellation of democratic politics allowing for transcendence of national partisanship. Now he is not so sure - the EU response to Lisbon is tending towards authoritarianism
Did the Commission Lie About its Own Poll?
Openeurope asks whether the commission engaged in a little bit of number fudging in the run up to its poll being released. If it didn’t I am thinking that political leaking took place from elsewhere in the system.
but it will smell awful
Gormley to Gilmore - “Who are those two on the other side?”
Computer + keyboard + headphones + paper= John Gormley
@Green Ink: R. John Gormley? Or…
“John Gormley is The Votenator, the product of a freak accident involving a VIC-20, a Moog, a Walkman, a pair of sandals, and a stack of modelling paper, sent from the future to destroy us all.”
there is always one fecker with a guitar and bob dylan covers
@ Keith: Surely he’s here to tax us all?
Barry Andrews - “No, seriously, I’m the new leader of FF. Sure look at me out here with the other party leaders”
Ciaran Cannon - “Great! Now half the country will think Andrews is the new PD leader.”
Gormley: Lads, I’d feel a little more comfortable if we could call it ‘(Locally Sourced from an Ethical Quarry) Rock The Vote’