State ‘using taxpayer funds to win yes vote in Europe’

CAMPAIGNERS for a “no” vote in the upcoming European referendum last night accused ministers of using taxpayers’ money to push a political agenda.

The anti-Lisbon Treaty group Libertas claimed a supposedly impartial government website was being used to present a “slanted” view of the debate.

Ireland will be the only EU country to hold a national poll on the treaty — and if Irish voters go against it, the deal will be scuppered for the whole union.