Anger at Government ‘must not lead to people voting No’
That was the call from MEP and European Parliament president Pat Cox yesterday.
The backlash against the Government in the wake of the Flood Tribunal interim report is palpable, Mr Cox said. An overall Yes vote is on the cards, but it will only be achieved if people avoid putting short-term national issues before the real issues in Nice, he said at a Waterford Chamber of Commerce-Irish Examiner breakfast briefing. The Munster MEP said he was at Listowel Races last Friday campaigning for a Yes vote. “The anger among people was so tangible, you could feel their anger. And it is a righteous anger. It was revealed when people find that people privileged to fill the highest offices in our land have prostituted our republic. Their anger is justified. But please do not use this short-term political issue as a reason to vote No. “The biggest battle now is not the one to win the Yes vote. It is the one to sway the people who are saying No for the wrong reason,” Mr Cox said.
