'Peter Mandelson has become the secret weapon of Irish campaigners hoping to vote down the Lisbon EU reform treaty next month, an outcome that would throw the entire European project into crisis.
The image of New Labour's original spin doctor is plastered on billboards, posters, websites and newspaper advertisements across the Republic of Ireland as a loose alliance of treaty opponents campaign for a No vote. Even Ireland's normally pro-European farmers look ready to vote No, and according to their leaders it is all down to Mandelson, whom they blame for trying to wreck the country's agricultural industry.'
