Listen Europe, It Means No ; No Means No - Except When It Is the Wrong Kind of No Vote. And Then, in a Hyper-Orwellian Twist, It Can Be Rendered Invalid.

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No means No - except when it is the wrong kind of No vote. And then, in a hyper-Orwellian twist, it can be rendered invalid.

At stake over the Irish rejection of the Lisbon Treaty is not only the composition and powers of the European Union.

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Listen Europe, It Means No ; No Means No - Except When It Is the Wrong Kind of No Vote. And Then, in a Hyper-Orwellian Twist, It Can Be Rendered Invalid.

Those are monumental issues that will affect the lives of the 495 million people in 27 countries with their own distinctive customs and identities.

But just as compelling is the whole question of democracy itself.

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