LABOUR TO ABSTAIN OVER EU REFERENDUM VOTE

MILIBAND SITTING ON THE FENCE OVER EUROPE

Now forgive my ignorance, but I was under the impression that we voted for politicians so that they could make decisions on our behalf and for good of the country as a whole.

 

So how can it be right for Labour to abstain on the Referendum Bill when it comes before the Parliament?

Now I can understand them trying to convince us of their reasons to stay in the EU, equally, I can understand other political party’s putting the case to come out, but what I can’t understand is the pure indecisiveness of a major party who is vying to lead the country at the next election, refusing to engage with the debate and offering no policy guidance whatsoever.

There again, why am I not surprised. After all Labour denied us a referendum on Nice, Amsterdam and Lisbon during their time in office, so abstaining on this latest bill would, once again, deny the British voters any democratic say on whether we want to casually surrender more and more of our nation’s sovereignty to unelected bureaucrats in Brussels, should they ever regain power.

It just shows that Labour leaders are far more interested in feathering their own nests and playing politics than worrying about the interests of the country and the poor people who have no choice than to live in it.

If this ‘can’t decide attitude’ is an example of the way any future Labour government will approach difficult decisions, Labour supporters might like to rethink their options.

There are those on all sides of the House who, even though they wish to remain under the control of European Ministers, still recognise the democratic case for an In / Out vote.

But by being whipped into abstention, we here in Tameside, with our ambitious, young 'rising stars' will not have that democratic luxury.

Perhaps our local MPs, Jonathan Reynolds, David Heyes and Andrew Gwynne might like to put pen to paper and explain to their constituents, why abstaining on such an important issue is the right thing to do.

So, we've got a straight IN/OUT referendum from UKIP an 'IF 'referendum from Cameron and a definite NO referendum, from Miliband!

It's called Democracy, apparently!