cattleman challenges legality of 2nd Lisbon vote

[celticwarrior]

Irish farmer seeks a judicial review of the govt's decision to hold a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ire ... 64277.html

[hurensohn]

No, you see people are to vote until they vote correctly and there after there will be no more votes.

[evanlong]

From the first sentence in the article:

"A CATTLEMAN has told a High Court judge he intends challenging the legality of the Government's new referendum on the Lisbon Treaty."

They could have called him anything but they called him a "cattleman".  Cattle-man, perhaps?

[celticwarrior]

yeah, and unfortunately the High Court has ruled that it is constitutional to hold the second referendum

[sullivan]

yeah, and unfortunately the High Court has ruled that it is constitutional to hold the second referendum

True. I didn't think that precedent came into play in constitutional cases, but that was the reason given for the judge's refusal to hear the case.

[celticwarrior]

to make a ruling that the identical question can be put before the people more than once makes a mockery of the whole principle of having a referendum or any free vote the result of which should be taken as the binding, irrevocable decision of the people; like hurensohn said, we are now in a parallel universe where no doesn't mean no and we are forced to rerun the vote until the result suits our masters