Denis McShane's hissy fit

Denis McShane was on the Simon Mayo show on BBC 5Live yesterday and had a hissy fit when questioned about the Irish referendum NO vote. I don't think the likes of Denis McShane really like democracy when the results are not what they want. You can listen to the piece by following the link to Friday's show from here. The relevant segment starts at around 00:50 and finishes at around . Listen to Open Europe's Neil O'Brien make the case against Gordon Brown's breathtaking arrogance and out of touchness (!). Jonny Dymond tries to make the Government line sound reasonable rather than totally anti-democratic. From around 07:00 Denis McShane tries to claim that the NO vote was about anything but the Treaty, presumably so that later it can be ignored, he even uses the word "lies". Even Simon Mayo sounds a touch incredulous that the EU and Gordon Brown are going to press ahead. Neil O'Brien dares to ask Denis McShane some difficult questions and Denis McShane takes umbrage and gets in some nasty little attacks. Apparently Denis McShane cannot believe that anyone would dare to disagree with his line and his beloved EU.

Denis McShane is a detestable EU propagandist and he should just shut the fuck up and accept that the only three countries who held a referendum have said NO, that's NO.

As the French President Nicolas Sarkozy said at a meeting of senior MEPs, (reported in EUobserver, 14 November 2007) "France was just ahead of all the other countries in voting No. It would happen in all Member States if they have a referendum. There is a cleavage between people and governments … There will be no Treaty if we had a referendum in France, which would again be followed by a referendum in the UK."