The
Campaign for a Referendum's NEW Petition launched on 31
October 2011
CAMERON’S HALLOWEEN EU NIGHTMARE RECURS – THIS
TIME WITH TEETH
They exorcised
it with three-line whips last week. They drove a derisive stake
through its heart, murmured the ancient incantation, ‘Calm
down, dears’ and thought that they could carry on carousing
undisturbed in their Westminster mansion.
But this Halloween, the many-headed monster known as ‘the people’ comes
back to haunt Cameron, Clegg and their hangers-on. It is bigger and fiercer
than ever.
The Campaign for a Referendum led by Independent MEP Nikki Sinclaire, gathered
120,000 signatures demanding a referendum on Britain’s membership of
the EU and so triggered the debate and a major Tory rebellion, will reappear
tomorrow on College Green with a brand new peoples petition, and this time
she is making use of a little-noticed clause in the coalition agreement to
force the issue through.

“Many
of us did not believe that politicians appointed by the public
would treat the public like dirt,” says Nikki, “so
we did not invoke this clause. It seems that we were naive. David
Cameron and Nick Clegg owe their positions to some 30,000 voters
apiece. They plainly think those were all discerning, intelligent
voters who should be obeyed. We have four times as many. They
just sneer.

“So
we’re coming back with a different Campaign for a Referendum
petition, and this time we’re invoking a firm pledge. We’ll
see if it’s any firmer than Cameron’s cast-iron promise
to hold a referendum which turned out to be made of Belgian chocolate
and melted in the heat of high office. The original petitioners
are very angry at the way they were treated and will sign again,
and there will be many, many more who want to remind these people
that we are sovereign and that we have never been given a chance
to decide whether we want our laws made by unelected, unknown
bureaucrats in Brussels. All that we are saying, as ever, is ‘Let
the People Decide.’”
To
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