Desperation on the yes side?
The ‘yes’ campaign in Cavan town are obviously getting desperate, as Fianna Fail have decided at this eleventh-and- a-half hour to canvass for a yes vote. There is something quaint that the lady who called to my unanswered door was once a committed Fine Gael activist, so much so that my late mother would have described as “blue to her drawers”. I chose not to answer the door and engage the hapless woman in debate, as I felt it would have been so unfair. (She probably thinks that Van Gent en Loos is a dirty movie.) I can’t help feel the irony of the situation, though. Here is Fianna Fail stating that a vote for Lisbon mk 2 is a vote for Europe but relying on people who, God love them, have trouble enough with their first language, whereas here am I, the ungrateful Eurosceptic who has a working knowledge of over a dozen EU languages, one of which, Bulgarian, he had occasion to use today.
At least last year I was canvassed in person by Minister for Agriculture Brendan Smith. One of our dogs barked quite loudly at him, an action I interpreted as “She’s obviously voting no Brendan”. What a difference a year makes, as Brendan would be scared shitless to show his face around the doors today – unless accompanied by a phalanx of gardai.
