The alternative is to win friends, influence people and build relationships. Qualified majority voting does that. One piece of data I have seen – although more than this number of qualified majority votes have gone through – shows that in 198 of the first 205 reports and directives that went through on qualified majority votes, Ireland found itself with the majority. The upcoming vote is not a recipe for some kind of national meltdown. On the contrary, if we get this vote right, we will have many more friends to look after us, especially in Central and Eastern Europe.