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Opinion poll shows increase in support for Treaty No vote – but it won’t alter outcome

Yes camp still in clear lead according to latest findings



Support for the No camp in the EU Fiscal Treaty debate is up – but the majority are still in favor of acceptance.

A new opinion poll for the Sunday Business Post newspaper indicates that 47 percent will vote yes next month.

The Red C opinion poll shows the treaty will be passed when it goes before the Irish electorate on May 31st.

Some 35 of those polled say they will vote No, up two points, while 18 percent are undecided, according to the poll.

Sunday Business Post political correspondent Pat Leahy has warned the Yes camp against complacency with polling still a month away.

“This poll will steady nerves in Government Buildings a little bit, because some recent polls suggested that there was much greater weakness in the Yes vote than we see today,” said Leahy.

“In a nutshell, what we see in this poll is that the Yes side are in a good position but that the campaign will decide the outcome of this referendum.”


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IRELAND IS STILL SPENDING FOUR BILLION EURO A YEAR ON MASS IMMIGRATION - and will continue to do so until the country really goes bust and your public service salary or welfare can't be paid any more! Vote NO tomorrow to bring a halt to this and to all the other fantastical policies that this government and the last government spent and spends upon still. They are admitting into the country hundreds of thousands of non-EU citizens that they are not obliged to allow in. When you take on an immigrant you take him on for life, his health, welfare, education and housing, and his family's too, and there are more millions massing in darkest Africa and far-off Asia to come here for welfare alone, not to work, not for a job, but for welfare alone for the rest of their lives - and we have a government minister here, Alan Shatter , waiting impatiently to make Irish citizens of them all and other ministers waiting to pay them billions upon billions for the rest of their lives. There is no end to this magnificent largesse and while their is no end to it Ireland will continue to flop and fail. This is why a NO vote tomorrow is necessary, indeed essential, to show that we do not intend to starve to feed masses of immigrants and pay them on top of that, bringing them in here to do nothing. It's madness, it's economic suicide, it must stop, VOTE NO:-)
The middle class Bulwark that has been holding this country back for the last 50 years needs to be dealt with.Apparently they have money to burn tp keep the status quo.They arent the ones suffering.Despite the claims of the media.They,ll find someway to send Josh and Eric to colledge so that they can hold on to their privledged position.Meanwhile others are struggling to put food on the table.How much more can you take?If the outcome of a capitalist democracy is a stuffed unmovable middle class inert to any real change then what is the point?
Many of the same self deluded morons that voted in a Fine Gael Labour government are voting yes for this.More austerity?Yes sir!Keep the country on it,s knees for the next 20 years?Yes sir!Are you a good EUslave?Yes sir!Do you love Sarkozy?etc
Any idiot that votes yes for this pile of trash deserves an unmentionable fate.
haasny007 "So the question is: Will Irish voters shoot themselves in the foot?" You sound as if you had shot yourself in the head.
Bythebay: "GeorgeDillon, this has nothing to do with Mass Immigration." What an idiot you are. Every vote on the EU is a vote on Mass Immigration. This despite the lies of the Irish ruling class--and their useful (or more accurately, useless) idiots such as you. I was in Ireland maybe 15 years ago when the Irish political parasites were telling the citizens that there would be no wave of Mass Immigration if they voted Yes to one of these EU plebiscites. The Irish voted Yes, and, as I predicted to them, Ireland was swamped by foreigners and changed forever. All to suit a lousy parasitical and treacherous ruling class.
You are correct Bythebay...If they do this, than Ireland will never be the same again
Opinion polls are statistical devices used by political establishments and their press/media class collaborators to predicate to their unthinking masses how to behave in a game called representative democracy. (Any posters on line, unlike me, ever been canvassed?) Opinions polls do not represent public opinions. The represent the opinions your social betters in the political establishment want you, the great unwashed public to have. A two-track European Union (EU) is more compatible for two island nations like Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain. I'm for one foot in EU and the other in an Anglo-American (Commonwealth) Alliance AA(C)A. Geography dictates politics like structure determines function. Ireland has more in common with United States of America and Australia/Canada/NewZealand/UK as anglophone nations than it does with the Towering Babel (TB) that is the EU. Arise George Orwell's Oceania!
The EU was an arguable Consumer Fetish at Best; But now It Is Dead. Let`s move along ~
peterson, Ireland is already part of the EU, has been for decades.
Being part of the EU will destroy Ireland's sovereignty and it's uniqueness.
Don't forget, folks. Keep voting until you get the "correct" result.
Do you really think they will do that George? They love it so much they are willing to leave the country in their tens of thousands to make room for more.
GeorgeDillon, this has nothing to do with Mass Immigration. It's an EU Financial Treaty standardizing finances across the European Union. You're like an old 78 record, stuck in one grove and incapable of moving on.
This is a good opportunity for Irish people to follow their fellow-Europeans in France, Holland etc. and Vote NO to Mass Immigration!




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