Supporters of a united Europe are put off by democratic deficit in the ruling structure

LIKE John Mallon (Letters, August 3), I too am fed up with the bullying tactics of those who suggest there will be severe consequences for Ireland if we do not vote for the Lisbon Treaty.

This is the kind of tiresome scaremongering we will doubtless hear from the Yes camp until the October vote.

I am pretty annoyed also that the EU Commission has pressurised the Government into having another vote on the rejected treaty.