"Wake Up and Smell the Bull"

Libertas today hit out at the absurd claims by the Irish Government that the Lisbon Treaty will create jobs in Ireland. I don't think that political statements get much blunter than this:

“Just show us where the jobs are in the Lisbon Treaty” is the challenge Libertas Leader Declan Ganley is laying down to the Yes campaign this morning. With just about a week and a half to go to polling day, Mr. Ganley said that the people of Ireland were beginning to “wake up and smell the bull”.

“We’ve had months of this nonsense about jobs, nearly all of it coming from people who would fail junior cert economics, if their record is anything to go by” Mr. Ganley said. “And despite all of this, we are only aware of one job that will be definitely saved by Lisbon, and it belongs to Brian Cowen”.

“We’ve had the referendum commission say they are lying. We’ve had the Wall Street Journal say they are lying. We’ve had the Financial Times say they are lying. We’ve had yes side strategists boasting to the media about how they intend to “persuade” people that this is about the economy. We’ve had months and months of dreary, tired, stupid nonsense about jobs, and they can’t point to a single one”

“We’ve seen millions of taxpayer’s euros spent on posters waffling about jobs. We’ve seen Pat Cox, who wouldn’t have earned a dime for most of his career if he’d been in business, tell people to be afraid. We’ve had the Dick and Mick road show from Iveagh house running around the country telling people to be afraid. We’ve had Enda Kenny desperately trying to postpone an election with a yes vote because he’s terrified of having to write a budget. We’ve had the whole, tired, pathetic, lot.

But not one example of a job.

It’s time to put up, or shut up. Show us the jobs, or prove, once and for all, that the country is led by a bunch of spoofers who’d say and do anything to get people to vote for this rotten, discredited, and defeated piece of junk they call a Treaty”