never trust

The sense of self-righteousness which led a majority of people in Ireland to vote No to the Lisbon Treaty is really discomforting. These people received billions and billions from the EU over the last three decades. They now see the EU as a major threat to their independence, culture and economic prosperity.

We should not be too severe with the Irish people, though. It could have happened in Portugal as well. As I have been arguing in this blog, one should never trust democratic public opinion in a predominantly Catholic country. They talk, talk and talk but most of them really don't know what they are talking about.