Treaty Does Nothing for ... Kevin Myers

Kevin "The Colonel"Myers is a columnist who has often provoked me to fury with his whacky contrarianism, but occasionally he gets it just right. (Indeed, both have occurred simultaneously once or twice !)

His column today in "The Irish Independent" (I got a free copy on the Park & Ride bus, since you ask) seems to me to fall into the latter category.

Highlights for me were:

I have not read the Lisbon Treaty. I tried.The Lisbon phonebook is more fun.

... the other extreme, the one that scolds us for being bad boys, and which warns we'll start chucking one another into gas chambers unless we obey the latest EU directive on bagpipe -noise, or the colour of our lawns, why, that encompasses almost our entire political class ... Mary Hanafin actually said that unless the European project was fully realised, the alternative was another Auschwitz

Merely because the Shinners were pockmarked savages with the blood of thousands of innocents on their hands in the past, doesn't mean they're always wrong today. And on the future of Ireland, they're right.Moreover, you can hardly celebrate the wicked obscenity of 1916 today, as Fianna Fail and Fine Gael apparently do, and in the same breath celebrate the loss of sovereignty implicit in the current Eurination, as they also do.

Note that I do not necessarily agree with the assessment of SF's view of the future of Ireland. And I don't understand the reference to the Battle of the Somme: I thought that the Colonel rather glorified in that obscenity ... oh wait !

Nor have I finally decided to vote against the Treaty.