The newly formed Munster Executive of the Workers’ Party has called for a “No” vote to the Lisbon Treaty in the forthcoming referendum, describing it as “a treaty too far”.

Speaking at the inaugural meeting of the Munster Executive of the party in Waterford (Sunday, 3^rd Feb) its Chairman, Seán Walsh said that the Lisbon Treaty would most likely be the last such treaty on which the Irish people would have a referendum as one of the treaty’s provisions would supersede Ireland’s constitution in that area.  This was all the more reason why Irish voters should reject the Lisbon Treaty, he said.

Mr. Walsh said that one of the first tasks of the newly formed executive would be to coordinate the Workers’ Party’s campaign against the Lisbon Treaty in the Munster region and to ensure that the party’s message reached as many people in the province as possible.

“The Lisbon Treaty is fifth treaty altering the nature of the European Union in the past 21 years, each treaty taking more and more power away from the people and concentrating it in the hands of an unaccountable bureaucracy in Brussels.   Each treaty has also eroded Irish neutrality to the point that it barely exists any more and each treaty has tied EU member states to a particular economic model based on that laid down by Margaret Thatcher and Helmut Kohl in the 1980s and which is now proving to be outdated and damaging to vital public services”.

The Workers’ Party have now formed a new regional executive for the province of Munster as a means of extending our reach beyond those areas where we have traditionally had support and with a view to recruiting new members in the growing provincial towns of Munster. 

If you live in Munster and would like to join the Workers' Party or would simply like more information contact Seán Walsh on (087) 125 7492 or write to our Head Office at 24 Mountjoy Square, Dublin 1.