I cannot understand why members of the European Parliament such as Patricia McKenna and Dana Rosemary Scallon have campaigned strongly for a "No" vote. They are prepared to draw their salaries and expenses from Europe, yet they want to ridicule Europe at the first opportunity. Equally I cannot understand the Green Party because it talks about rectifying some democratic deficit. Is the Green Party suggesting that 105 million people who suffered the tyranny and oppression of communism for so long would be prepared to be drawn into some other anti-democratic tyrannical organisation? They would point out that they are getting involved in the European Union because they see it as the vehicle which can underpin the democratic systems which have developed in the member states formerly under communism. They see membership of the Union as of paramount importance in ensuring the democratic system which they strove to attain and for which many died. Has the Green Party forgotten about the communist tanks in Hungary when it suggests that 105 million who wish to join the European Union would in some way forfeit what they have suffered and died for in the past to establish democratic systems by joining an undemocratic organisation which does not meet some ideas which apparently are dear to some of members of the Green Party?