June 20, 2007

Marcel Berlins on an EU Referendum

He’s against one for:

I have no doubt that any British referendum on the
not-quite-constitution will inevitably turn into a poll on our
membership of the EU. The question on the voting slip may be about the
proposed new document; but it will be read by many, deliberately, as
"Do you want Britain to leave the EU?" That would make a mockery of the
rationale behind the referendum. It must not be allowed to happen.

OK, fine. So why don’t we have one that asks that very question? Put the whole issue to bed?

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Roger Thornhill

June 20, 2007

Marcel Belins: It must not be allowed to happen.
Tim Worstall: OK, fine. So why don’t we have one that asks that very question? Put the whole issue to bed?
Roger Thornhill: I refer the honourable gentleman to the answer the Rt Illiberal gave a few moments ago.

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Neil Clark

June 20, 2007

Agreed. We should have a referendum on whether to leave the EU. And lots of other referenda too. The argument that the people won’t understand the issues is patronising and elitist- and profoundly undemocratic.

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MARK T

June 20, 2007

just imagine if Gordo wanted to be really radical and announced it as part of his first 100 days…….Ok, not a chance.

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Marcin Tustin

June 20, 2007

I don’t know why the patronising classes are so afraid of a referendum – opinion poll after opinion poll shows that some 60% support remaining in the Union. Not a resounding endorsement by the whole populace, but there’s only one winner in a referendum.

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Mark Wadsworth

June 20, 2007

What Martin says.
I personally would love for us to leave the EU and for England to leave the UK for that matter, but I have a nasty feeling that a slim majority would vote to stay in both.
Either I’m wrong (in wanting to leave) or the public leads a lot more educating into the true cost of membership of EU and/or UK.

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