Express delivers 373,000 signatures to Downing Street calling for EU withdrawal Political Commentator Patrick O’Flynn argues, “The Prime Minister, under pressure from his Lib Dem allies, has abandoned any idea of repatriating powers from The European Union has brought nothing but bad news for the British people Tuesday February 1,2011 DAVID Cameron has a problem looming on the horizon, and he knows it. For month after month the European Union has brought nothing but bad news for the British people – and now they are rising up against it. Our budget contributions are up sharply, we are contributing billions to bail out the casualties of the single currency and we face a new wave of migrants as the eurozone becomes an economic dead zone. EXPRESS CASINO: GET A FREE BONUS OF UP TO £150 NOW! On top of that, the European Court of Human Rights is demanding that prisoners are given the vote while making it impossible to deport hundreds of foreign criminals each year. As Mr Cameron said in a major speech at the weekend, the EU keeps pumping out job-destroying rules, putting it firmly in the slow lane of the world economy. “While economies like India, Brazil and China are steaming ahead, in Europe the drag on growth has persisted,” he confessed. Mr Cameron said the EU was in many ways its own worst enemy – to which one can only reply: Not while readers of the Daily Express are free to voice their opinions, it’s not. The Prime Minister, under pressure from his Lib Dem allies, has abandoned any idea of repatriating powers from Brussels and appears to be after a quiet life. But there is no chance of that. As anti-EU sentiment grows across the country, Tory MPs will come under growing pressure to support a referendum on leaving it. The Conservative high command is already anxious about the prospect of millions of voters defecting to UKIP in the 2014 Euro Parliament elections – a disaster so close to the general election of 2015. So Mr Cameron will need to devise an attractive offer for Eurosceptic voters by the mid-point of this Parliament, or face being seen as a new Edward Heath figure. Yesterday the Daily Express reminded him that for hundreds of thousands of voters, securing a referendum on the EU is a vital cause that will decide how they vote in 2015. For all those who are convinced Britain would be better off out of the EU the message is that, while it may be a long haul, their pressure will eventually tell – so long as they keep Tuesday February 1,2011 THESE are exciting times for all those opposed to the European Union. The view that Britain would be Better Off Out is rapidly gaining ground and the capacity of the political class to ignore such an opinion is draining away. Yesterday the Daily Express delivered one of the biggest petitions in British newspaper history. Sacks containing 350,000 coupons sent in by readers over the past few weeks calling for a referendum on withdrawing from the EU were handed to the Government. Another 23,000 joined the protest on our website. We do not expect David Cameron to bow to this demand today, tomorrow or even this year. But the pressure will grow inexorably upon him to grant the British people a vote on the future of their country. Millions of people have always been hostile to the EU, with its ludicrous ambitions to become a superstate. The difference now is that for hundreds of thousands at least, the issue will determine how they vote at the general election. That means hundreds of MPs with small majorities will face the choice either of agreeing to back calls for referendum or waving farewell to their political careers. Experience suggests turkeys seldom vote for Christmas. This newspaper is used to embarking on crusades that require stamina. It took two years before our inheritance tax campaign bore fruit. Over the coming months we will set out new ways for readers to help us keep up the pressure. Mr Cameron should know this: the Crusader is at his gates and he is not going away.
With the help of Labour and Conservative backbench MPs, the Express yesterday delivered a petition with 373,000 signatories to Downing Street calling for the
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EUROPEAN UNION:
A PROBLEM THAT WON’T GO AWAY
By Patrick O'Flynn
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OUR CRUSADE OVER THE EU WILL WIN THAT REFERENDUM
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