A No vote in the Nice Treaty will be doing the EU a big favour

We are inexorably headed for another referendum on the Nice Treaty in spite of the outcry, even though we've already voted No.

I can’t see any reason for my own vote changing, the main reason being that it copper fastens a bureaucratic form of Government with the larger states having effective control over the union with the new entrants being downgraded to second class states like ourselves.

I didn’t remember this last time round, but now it has emerged that our illustrious foreign minister, unlike many other states (including England), has not applied the rule that the new entrants still have to seek work permits in the other EU states for the first seven years after entry. This leaves Ireland as the only English-speaking state that has elected to allow full free movement immediately upon entry. There are sound reasons for this rule as it would allow catch up in economic development by the new entrants and for any migration flows to be natural ones.