Tuesday, 18 October 2011


The People's Pledge



People’s Pledge is a campaign that brings you together with others in yourconstituency to demand your MP supports an EU referendum. an EU referendum.




Cameron fears EU referendum revolt as MPs’ vote looms. Latest from the Mail on Sunday

The historic House of Commons vote on whether the UK should pull out of the EU is set to take place in three weeks.

If the vote is in favour of a referendum David Cameron will come under huge pressure to offer the British public a chance to say once and for all if they want to grab back powers lost to Brussels.

William Hague has added to growing pressure on the Prime Minister to act on the issue by admitting that public opinion has changed dramatically since 1973 when Britain joined the Common Market, as the EU was then called.

Changing times: William Hague has added to the pressure on David Cameron to hold a referendum on the EU by saying public opinion has shifted

The Foreign Secretary told a private meeting of Tory MPs that the mood among voters was ‘more hostile than ever’ towards Brussels.

The powerful Commons Backbench Business Committee, which meets on Tuesday, is expected to make a formal demand to the Government for a debate on a referendum. Read the rest of this entry »

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A pattern is fast emerging amongst those politicians, particularly within the Eurosceptic camp, who appear to continually sit on the fence when it comes to backing an EU referendum. Conservative ministers have consistently dangled the possibility of exacting a price for Britain’s agreement to any eurozone crisis-induced treaty change, keeping some Eurosceptic Tories assuaged enough to hold back from going down the referendum route. Cameron himself has intimated (with deft and carefully-chosen words) that there are indeed options to consider, telling the Parliamentary Liaison Committee last month: Read the rest of this entry »

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