SO we’re having a rerun of the vote on the exact same Lisbon Treaty on October 2 – what a travesty of democracy. The Wall Street Journal was correct when it said (June 26): “In some countries they rig votes, in the European Union they repeat votes to get the desired result.”

LIKE the grand old Duke of York, IFA president Padraig Walshe is taking farmers for a quick march around the streets of Luxembourg.