Anti-immigration group urges ‘No’ vote over border fears

AN ANTI-IMMIGRATION group is urging a No vote in the Lisbon Treaty referendum on the grounds that it will lessen the country’s controls over its own borders.

The Immigration Control Platform claims the treaty, which will make the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights legally binding for all member states, is too broad in scope and lacking in opt-out clauses.

“We see this as a blank cheque and it goes without saying that anyone who would sign a blank cheque would be a very foolish person,” said spokeswoman Áine Ní Chonaill.