After 13yrs of waiting for Labours promised referendum on
the UK’s continued EU membership, it now seems that the Tories; who have been
seriously spooked by the rise of UKIP are now attempting to circle the wagons.
Today’s rushed bill indicates nothing but panic. All today’s
bluster will do; if passed, will allow the Prime Minister to drag the whole
sorry situation out for another 4yrs, in the hope that the result of 'the PMs satisfactory
negotiations' will buy him the time to keep him in No10 ... dream on Cameron!
The glaring ‘elephant in the room’ here is that no
Parliament can bind its successor and the so called bill, (obviously written in
haste) does not even indicate what should be done in the event of a referendum
decision one way or the other because there is no clause within it to actually direct
the Government to do anything following the outcome of the increasingly
unlikely referendum! Therefore this draft bill is not worth the paper it
potentially could be printed on.
This Parliamentary action should have happened two years ago,
when a petition signed by around 400,000 people calling for an EU Referendum
was delivered to No.10, backed by an on-line one of over 100,000 signatures. Then,
instead of reacting favourably to a demand for a democratic say on our
membership, David Cameron triple-whipped his MPs to vote down a call for a
Referendum.
So, today a referendum on our continued membership of the EU
is no more likely than it ever was.
Cameron looks more like a posturing empty shell every day.
ReplyDeleteWhy don't we have a referendum on membership of NATO, the United Nations or the Commonwealth? There are plenty of other issues we could ask the electorate like they do in Switzerland.
ReplyDeleteThose of you obsessed with an EU referendum seem to want a country free from foreign influence. What do you think about having our key infrastructures and businesses under foreign control? Many so called British things are already foreign-owned eg airports,electricity and water utilities, bus and train services, Rolls Royce, Land Rover, Cadbury, the Mini etc. What answer have the fruit cakes in UKIP have for this? Or are they happy to see the whole nation sold off if the price is right?
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