However this would carry more weight if they listened and acted upon poll results closer to home, the Irish voted NO to the Lisbon treaty and therefore killed it off, and yet the EU leaders are planning on carrying on regardless, maybe asking Ireland to vote again in order to get a yes vote despite knowing that if other countries were allowed a vote, the result would be the same as the Irish delivered. NO means NO, Ignoring this and trying to change the result has a similar ring to the farce that is Zimbabwe's election.

This seems to be hypocrisy in the extreme by the eu leaders but we shouldn't be surprised, Denmark, Holland and France have all delivered no votes previously on EU constitutions in their various guises only for the plan to rear its ugly head again.

When will the EU heads of government listen to the people they are supposed to represent? When pigs start to fly and when Mugabe has a fair and free election, I think.

Paul Dawson, Headingley, Leeds