The no vote is winning one-nil

FURTHER to Mr Ahern's assertion that

The no vote is winning one-nil
Sat, 07 Sep, 2002 - 01:00
voting against the Nice Treaty we would be letting a lot of people down, surely it must be obvious to everyone that not voting against it we will be letting not only ourselves, but the vast numbers in the EU who had no vote on this issue?

We are given a second vote: this time vote no for them. At the end of this vote, should it be accepted, the score will be one-all.

The only problem will be that the first franchise was valid. Therefore the score remains 1 to nil. It is incredibly insulting to have a whole people subjected to this charade by our elected politicians.

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