British Tories must not set our line on Lisbon

RICHARD Murphy (Letters, May 18) believes the Irish people should not be consulted again on the Lisbon Treaty, modified for Ireland by a series of legal guarantees currently being negotiated.

Instead Mr Murphy wants Ireland to wait for a British Tory government to scupper the treaty.

His faith in the Tory party is touching. I wonder what in the history of that party’s dealings with Ireland makes him want to put our future in Tory hands?