New Blog Post - "Sign The Pledge Please"

By Cllr Steve Tierney | Wednesday, September 08, 2010, 10:46

Sign The Pledge, Please.

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Today, Dan Hannan MEP and Ruth Lea have launched a cross-party campaign for a ballot on whether Britain should stay in the EU. On his excellent Telegraph Blog Dan Hannan makes a clear case for why a referendum is both necessary and warranted.

I’d like to think that those who read this blog who don’t share my view that membership of the EU is something we’d be better rid of would still consider the arguments for having a referendum on it. After all, I don’t believe that an alternative vote system will be a good thing for the UK – but I support the principle of a referendum to decide that thorny issue.

No matter whether you believe, as I do, that our MPs control vastly less of the country than many people realise anybody surely must accept that they have certainly lost some significant elements of their ability to legislate for us. As Dan Hannan astutely points out – “If we are allowed a vote on how to elect our MPs, why not a vote on whether those MPs run the country? If we can have a referendum on whether to have a mayor in Hartlepool, what about one on whether the majority of our laws should be handed down from Brussels?”

To read the rest of this blog post visit:-

http://www.stevetierney.org/blog/?p=1876

Or go directly to the EU Referendum Campaign Pages at:-

http://www.eureferendumcampaign.com/EU_Referendum_Campaign.html

How you vote when and if the referendum happens is neither here nor there. Sign the pledge. Please.

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