I was watching/listening to all coverage of the count this morning. As it became clear that a NO was likely, there were some early attempts by, in particular Ivana Bacik of Labour as well as some minor Greens to spin the defeat as a result of "poor communication" by the government, that govt “didn't do enough” to explain the proposed amendments to the electorate, the wording was imprecise etc. In other words, the dim and dopey electorate needed it spelled out to them in much simpler terms. As the count wore on and it became apparent that the result was likely to be not merely a NO but a landslide NO, I think they realised that they wouldn't get away with tarring the vast majority of the electorate as dim and so they changed tack. Cue some pretty pathetic attempts by the "opposition" to distance themselves from their own campaigning for the yes/government side. Bacik, Sherlock, McDonald and O'Broin all parroting the similar line that they "reluctantly" or "grudgingly" supported the government despite their discomfort with the wording. Newsflash! Ivana, Mary Lou et al, the job of opposition is to oppose in situations where you don’t agree with what a government is proposing, not go along with it "grudgingly". It was only at this point that we saw some govt party leaders surface to say they accepted the decision of the electorate, but at this stage what else could they say in the face of a landslide? I have no doubt that if the result had been closer, we would now be seeing the usual attempts to label NO voters as dim, uneducated, far right etc etc.