Top 10 Reasons To Envy The Irish

10. They use Single Transferable Vote for parliamentary elections.


9. Their constitution can only be amended by popular vote, not by a kitchen deal cooked by the PM and accepted by 9 out of 10 provincial premiers.


8. Similarly, treaties on the issues of national sovereignty must be approved in a referendum. No back door deals there either.


7. Citizenship is a privilege, not a right; children of illegal migrants don't become automatic citizens.


6. Ireland holds on to the true definition of marriage as a union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others.


5. And it's up to the elected members of Parliament to decide whether or not Ireland should recognize some sort of "civil partnerships", not up to the activist judges.


4. Fetal Rights debate is allowed!


3. Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland recognizes the right to life of the unborn.


2. Two referendums were held to further strengthen constitutional protections for the unborn child. The last one (in 2002) was lost by less than 11,000 votes (0.8%)
   
   And finally:
1. National interests take precedence over socialist pan-European utopias.
   Ireland was the only EU member country to allow its citizens to vote on a treaty which was to become a de-facto constitution of a godless anti-national Euro superstate.
   And the Irish responded by a solid 53.4% NO to the Eurocrats!

Thank you, dear Irish! Thank you for speaking up for hundreds of millions of Europeans that weren't allowed to vote with you! Thank you for sticking to common sense in our crazy day and age! Thank you all for showing the rest of the Western world what a true democracy should look like!

Down with EUSSR! Éireann go Brách! Long live Ireland!