With a month to go to the Lisbon vote, I am going to do a number of weekly round-ups of bloggers views on the Lisbon Treaty. Starting off with Michael Walsh’s Yes to Lisbon blog which has the first of a number of posts which will be on the Charter of Fundamental Rights. Politics.ie legend, Future Taoiseach has a piece on how Brian Cowen’s stressing of parliamentary party discipline on the Lisbon Treaty. The Quiet Road has a piece about the complexity of the Treaty itself.
Sarah Carey is looking for no voter to abstain on the vote, as she won’t be around to vote yes. Credo, Catholic Journal encourages us all to go out and vote, but is pushing a strong no vote itself highlighting Cóir’s claim that the Treaty is not needed. Hotelier Jim Murphy is supporting the call of the Irish Hotel Federation’s call for a Yes Vote.
Irish Lawyer takes issue with my support of the Citizens’ Initiative. Wargle argues that Lisbon does nothing on energy, while British Blogger Curly, the Tap Blog and the Daily Telegraph have posts on Mandelson upsetting us Irish and the implications for the referendum. The Life Blog is arguing for a non-vote i.e. not to vote in the referendum at all. The Cedar Lounge looks at the Cowen effect on the Lisbon Treaty vote of Cowen’s honeymoon. Stephen Spillane provide an update on the state of play of ratification in the other EU states and finally, Justin Mason looks at the Libertas’ astro-turfing saga.
So, thats a quick round up of some of the posts on Lisbon in the past few days. I’ll continue this next week, but if there are any others lash them down below.






