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Thanks to a tip by email from Josephine White, apparently there was big flare up involving the Europhile blogging MEP Richard Corbett ( I won`t link to his blog because he does not allow comments thus ensuring he can put across is own warped view without fear of contradiction)

Roger Helmer reports on his blog that

In a meeting of the Constitutional Affairs Committee yesterday, they were debating the poor turnout in Euro-elections, and the apparent voter disengagement from the European project. Apperent Mr Helmer?

When Irish MEP Kathy Sinnott pointed out that they could hardly expect Irish voters to engage with the EU when the EU parliament had just voted against respecting the result of the Irish Referendum. (an amendment that simply said “This house will recognise the outcome of the Irish Referendum”)

At which point Corbett became apoplectic, shouting

“No we didn’t”

His hole digging explanation was the Parliament was not voting to reject the outcome of the Irish referendum, he said.

Not at all. It was merely voting not to put that wording into the text of the report.

And why he continued “with his hole” did we not want to put those words in the report? Why, said Corbett, because

“It is self-evident that this parliament would respect the outcome of any national referendum — not just Ireland”.

“Self evident” and “respect” seem to have morphed into new meanings like a lot of words once in the hands of the EU demophiles.

As Roger Helemer points out the EU parliament was quite happy to reject

the Danish referendum on Maastricht (1992);

the Irish Referendum on the Nice Treaty (2000);

and most spectacularly the French and Dutch referendum results on the EU Constitution in 2005.

Roger Helmer also apologises in the post about abstaining on the Irish vote and claims a mistake.

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