Libertas arguments distorted and hypocritical

ON May 22, Libertas spokesperson Caroline Simons was quoted in the media as saying the main reason Libertas was calling for a no vote was because of its (allegedly) negative implications for workers.

Last winter, however, Libertas’s main gripe was the removal of the reference to “undistorted competition” from the European constitution. Recently, it declared that Lisbon would undermine the Common Agricultural Policy and, before that, Declan Ganley attacked the CAP as a “weapon of mass destruction”.

On May 25, Ms Simons said if Lisbon came into effect, France, Germany and two other small countries would be able to “out-vote” the other member states.