FG wants ‘scrap’ for Lisbon II

AN all-out “political scrap” is needed to get the Lisbon treaty passed, Fine Gael insisted last night.

And the party’s Dublin MEP Gay Mitchell wasted no time getting the ball rolling by launching an attack on Taoiseach Brian Cowen’s handling of the last campaign.

In comments unlikely to aid harmony in the already fractured yes camp, he said voters had turned against the treaty in June due to a “lack of leadership” rather than the slick Libertas-led no push.