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The creation of a European superstate moved a step closer last night, after the Irish people voted to accept the Lisbon Treaty, paving the way for a powerful new President of Europe. In a result greeted with relief in Downing Street and dismay in the Tory Party, more than two-thirds of the Irish electorate voted Yes in the country’s second referendum on the treaty. The ballot followed a frantic campaign by pro-Europeans to reverse Ireland’s overwhelming No vote last year. Now, only Poland and...Read Full Story

So our 1,000 years of history ends like this Last updated at 10:06 AM on 04th October 2009 Add to My Stories The creation of a European superstate has moved a step closer, after the Irish people voted to accept the Lisbon Treaty, paving the way for a powerful new President of Europe. In a result greeted with relief in Downing Street and dismay in the Tory Party, more than two-thirds of the Irish electorate voted Yes in the country’s second referendum on the...Read Full Story

Major media outlets from the BBC in Britain to RTE in Ireland are now reporting that the Yes side scored a resounding victory in Ireland's vote Friday on the EU Lisbon Treaty. With the treaty's ratification, the obstacles preventing the total federalization of the EU superstate are now removed. As the Daily Mail reported earlier this week, one of the first orders of business for the post-Lisbon EU will be to appoint Tony Blair as the first President of the European Union. This move has been...Read Full Story

Posted by news 1 hour 2 minutes ago ( http://www.guardian.co.uk ) View profile Category : News • Former cabinet minister Lady Ashton gets foreign policy post• Tony Blair loses bid to land European jobHerman Van Rompuy, the centre-right Belgian prime minister, won the race became the first president of the European Council tonight as Tony Blair was forced to admit defeat in his long-running campaign for the job.But...Read Full Story

Reflecting on Glastonbury 2011 from the outside, I realized how much it has become a microcosm of life under the heal of the coalition government. On the surface it is portrayed as innovative, cutting edge, progressive, classless and ‘free’; in reality it is mind bogglingly conservative, centrally controlled to the last tent peg, restrictive, seeped in class prejudices which stifles all hope of progressive thought or interaction, and backward looking, always signposting its early days as if...Read Full Story