Voters Want Referendum on EU Relationship
A poll for Politics Home reveals that 63% of voters want a referendum on renegotiating Britain’s relationship with the EU.
A huge 70% think Cameron’s Sovereignty Bill is a good idea, while just 18% think it is a bad idea.
Just 27% of voters thought the Lisbon treaty was a good development, while a clear majority of 57% thought it was a bad development.
This appears to show that voter’s attitudes towards the EU, are hardening. Not only are we seeing in opinion poll after opinion poll on this issue that a clear majority would favour leaving the EU are returning to a free trade relationship, but we are seeing increasing majorities who want a say, who believe Westminster must remain sovereign, and who want powers returned to nation states.
Cameron’s new “settled policy” on Europe is not sufficient to address these concerns of voters, though will go at least some way to stemming the tide. The question remains how long can political parties go on ignoring the clear majority will of the British people?
5 Responses to “Voters Want Referendum on EU Relationship”
Hardly surprising. I used to be pro-EU twenty years ago, but my enthusiasm waned and waned, and four or five years ago I swung over to "BOO" and am becoming increasingly rabid in that respect.
Once again though the liberal political elite has ridden rough shod over the will of the people. Despite such a massive majority wanting powers transferred back to Westminster, the self serving EU powerbrokers refuse to let something as awkward as democracy get in the way of their federalist dream. The Lisbon Treaty is self-amending, which means there never needs to be another Treaty to change the way the EU does business. For David Cameron to declare that he will bring in a sovereignty treaty and always give the British a say in the future before any more powers are surrendered, is either breathtakingly stupid or breathtakingly dishonest – it simply cannot happen. For that reason there needs to be a full referendum on our relationship" with our European neighbours.
So David Cameron is giving a cast iron guarantee that any future treaties will require a referendum.
But the Lisbon Treaty is the last treaty. The EU has got all our sovereignty now.
This is simply a trick on the public.
He knows there will be no more treaties.
He is closing the door after the horse has bolted.
Although it is coming to the point where the elite want the people to fear finding out the truth or rising up when we do!.
It's is really the political class that FEAR's the people and dare not let us decide our own future or let any other nation in the EU do the same.
There will only be so long before the people really will see the effects of the EU's grip on us all now.
Cameron's so called "cast iron promise" was carefully worded to leave just enough ambiguity to allow him to renege upon it in the same way that Labour and the Lib-Dems did by pretending that the Constitution and the Lisbon Treaty were not one and the same thing.____He has also been careful not to promise that he will succeed in repatriating any powers from the EU (well knowing that this will never happen) but merely that he would endeavour to do so.____Similarly, his promise of a Soveriegnty Bill is nothing more than a cynical and disengenuous attempt to establish his psuedo eurosceptic credentials with a gullible Tory party, since the final ratification of the Lisbon treaty establishes once and for all the undeniable supremacy of EU law over those of all member states.____Sadly. in their desperate desire for power at any cost, many Conservatives have clutched at these straws of sham Cameroon euroscepticism, like the drowning men they will shortly become. By resorting to the defeatist negative tactics of claiming that a vote for UKIP equals a vote for Brown, CCHQ now seem to be acknowledging the real possibility of a hung parliament.