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Listed below are comments made by Grahame Leon-Smith between Friday, 13th June 2008 and Friday, 13th June 2008.

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Lisbon: A hard sell 10:14am on 13 Jun 2008 The Senior Citizens Party believes that the European Commission has deliberately tried to deceive the people by changing the European Constitution, which was a user-friendly, relatively easy to understand document, by rewriting it in complex legalese which no ordinary person can understand and calling it a treaty instead of a constitution. All the independent experts agree that it is essentially the same.

Such hypocrisy is disgraceful and it is equally disgraceful that all three parties who promised a referendum in the election manifestos of 2005 have now reneged on this. In a genuine democracy power must be vested in the people and not in unelected bureaucrats. Now everyone who believes in democracy has to rely on the 3 million Irish people to defend our democratic rights, and those of the other 497 million people who are denied a referendum, say No to the Lisbon Treaty. We sincerely hope they will.

Grahame Leon-Smith, Senior Citizens Party

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