"Following Berlusconi, Lellouche, Secretary of State for European affairs, openly suggested the possibility of applying the Treaty of Lisbon only to those states that had already ratified it, in the event of another no vote in Ireland in the referendum of 2nd October...Pardon my inelegant translation.
Berlusconi made it clear: "I believe we need to have a complete overhaul of the functioning of Europe to create a core of states that can work beyond unanimity"
That's the way the EU works, folks: even if you get to vote, the Euroscum do what they want anyway.