[lbo-talk] hegemon succession

[Philip Pilkington]

> And after Ireland goes through 6 months of savage deflation because it's in
> the Euro zone (while the UK suffers less much on the pound) I wouldn't be
> surprised if EU finds they vote down the Lisbon treaty again.
>
>
I reckon that's on the tightrope. People here are quite desperate - and
thus, quite unpredictable. People in Ireland don't really talk about
politics (or anything), so you never no where they're going to go on these
"swing-voter" issues. Freud once said that the Irish were completely immune
to psychoanalysis. They were too enclosed to interpret. The same goes for
politics generally. I live here, I see the polls... I have no idea...