ALMOST three-quarters of people who voted 'No' in the Lisbon Treaty referendum mistakenly believed the pact could be easily renegotiated......
.......This belief is being attributed to the Nice I and II scenarios, where the treaty was re-run in a referendum after assurances were given on Ireland's neutrality.
Read the Irish Independents article 'why we voted no' here
It'll go that way too, there will be amendments and Ireland will seek & gain some of the protective measures the UK got for herself and in a 2nd referendum Ireland will vote yes, just like before.
As for concerns about the legalise used in the wording of such treaties the matter is quite simple.
Whilst there is every reason in the world to go for 'plain English' that can only go so far.
'Legal-ese' is all about precision.
Nailing down meanings so that no-one ends up signing up to things they did not realise they were committing to.
The British have always been past masters at that but imagine how it works in a community now of 27 nations with umteen languages and Civil Services and Judiciaries.
Expecting the sort of casual chat one finds in the street in this kind of document is absurd.
