We want a referendum, and he's going to try and get us one:
David Cameron is planning a Parliamentary ambush over the new EU treaty in an attempt to
The Tory leader revealed his plans to mobilise the rapidly growing cross-party support for a nationwide vote in an exclusive interview on Telegraph TV [viewable below].
He pledged that within weeks of Parliament's return on Oct 9 he would force a Commons vote demanding a referendum on the successor treaty to the abandoned European Constitution.
Mr Cameron said he would "push the government all the way on this issue", adding "when Parliament returns we will hold an Opposition day debate and put down a very simple and clear motion to support a referendum on the European constitution".
He would "pressurise" Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs to vote for that referendum. Labour MPs had fought the 2005 general election campaign on a manifesto pledge to give the British people the final say - and they should not be allowed to "break that promise". (The Telegraph)
Excellent. I've written on the subject of a referendum on this EU Constitution - Reform Treaty, sorry - plenty of times recently so I won't go on too much. But finally a party leader has made it their official policy to have a referendum on this!The Tory leader revealed his plans to mobilise the rapidly growing cross-party support for a nationwide vote in an exclusive interview on Telegraph TV [viewable below].
He pledged that within weeks of Parliament's return on Oct 9 he would force a Commons vote demanding a referendum on the successor treaty to the abandoned European Constitution.
Mr Cameron said he would "push the government all the way on this issue", adding "when Parliament returns we will hold an Opposition day debate and put down a very simple and clear motion to support a referendum on the European constitution".
He would "pressurise" Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs to vote for that referendum. Labour MPs had fought the 2005 general election campaign on a manifesto pledge to give the British people the final say - and they should not be allowed to "break that promise". (The Telegraph)
The result of a vote is nowhere near as important as having it. So long as it is the People who make the decision themselves and not the politicians deciding for us, the outcome doesn't matter. Of course I would vote no, but that is less important to me than actually having a referendum itself.
Unfortunately in the interview, he also says that we shouldn't have an English Parliament, but just English votes for English laws. That is just the first step, and not enough in itself to rectify the devolution bias.
He also knocks back the absurd idea of making people pay to park at the supermarket.
