We’ve gone from heart of Europe to British Tories

ONE of the sad sights of the Lisbon referendum was the picture of a triumphant activist brandishing the campaign slogan ‘No to Foreign Rule’.

Whatever happened to the country which was a proud member of the EU until just the other day?

We seem to have lost all recall of the Europe which gave us progressive social, environmental and other legislation, billions in economic support and a place to appeal to when Irish politics, law or bureaucracy failed to deliver.