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Frank Furedi, professor of sociology (University of Kent) on political cynicism in the Union, as displayed after the Irish vote.
They have been libelled as an uneducated ‘horde’, yet Irish voters’
rejection of the Lisbon Treaty is a brilliant blow against the EU
oligarchy.
Oligarchs cannot stand public humiliation. So when, last Thursday, the
Irish electorate pointed their fingers and shouted ‘The Emperor has no
clothes!’, the political elites of the European Union pretended that it
was not them who stood exposed, but the Irish people.
Reed on at SP!KED
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