What is not changed remains the same

ON the Lisbon Treaty, Lorna Jennings (Letters, August 3) tells us “the package we will vote on this time is quite different to that which was put before us last time”.

This is blatantly false.

The three “guarantees” that are supposed to make it so different this time merely confirm that the treaty, in the form in which the Irish people have already rejected it only a little over a year ago, does not interfere in certain matters (neutrality, taxation, abortion).