Advocates of the proposed European Hegemony aren’t going to stop just because a few pesky voters disagree with the Will of the political class. That’s the message some European politicians are sending after Ireland became the third country to reject a version of a EU treaty by popular referendum (after previous negative votes on an EU constitution in France and the Netherlands). Read this account in the Washington Times:

Proponents of the Lisbon Treaty portray it as a necessary streamlining measure, which would create the post of European president and forge a common EU foreign policy. Opponents regard it as a blueprint for a bureaucrat-driven federal European state. One of those opponents in Ireland is the campaign group Coir, Irish for “justice.” “This is the third time that this treaty has been defeated, first in France, then in the Netherlands and now in Ireland. It is quite clear that the people of Europe do not want to be dragged into a federal EU superstate by their politicians,” Coir spokesman Richard Greene told The Washington Times. “It is also quite clear that while the people of Europe are saying that economic integration is a good thing, they are also saying that total political integration is not the path that they want to go down.” Hugo Brady, research fellow at the Center for European Reform think tank in London, said it would be tough for other European nations to criticize the Irish over the no vote. “Everyone knows that this treaty, put to a popular referendum elsewhere, would have very little chance of surviving,” he said.

Which is why the Euro-pols have no intention of allowing public sentiment to obstruct their plans.