Let Britain Decide

David Cameron is urging people to back Conservative Stockton South MP, James Wharton, in his bid to secure the first EU referendum in 40 years.

On Wednesday of this week the Conservative Party Chairman, Grant Shapps, launched a new campaign website, to make it simple for people to back James Wharton's Bill

The site LetBritainDecide.com aims to "build public pressure, to give people a voice, and to urge MPs from other parties to listen to their constituents."

The whole site is based on public interaction - encouraging the public to play an active role in the campaign and get MPs from all parties to join Conservative MPs and reflect the views of constituents.

Conservative Party Chairman Grant Shapps said:

"Britain deserves a vote. It's been nearly 40 years since the British people last had their say on Europe. People feel the EU is heading in a direction they never signed up to.

"That is why Conservatives want to give Britain a clear vote - in or out - before the end of 2017, after a full renegotiation.

"A draft Bill to make this happen will soon be debated by MPs - but, crucially, it needs the support of other political parties to pass. Britain needs everyone to build public pressure on this. That's why we are launching LetBritainDecide.com today: to give people a voice, and to urge MPs to listen to their constituents."

Comments

Jim said…
There is a simple way of doing so, its easy, announce the intention to leave the EU but not the EEA/EFTA, then under said article we can negotiate all we like, but we could never lose any trde, why? we are a member of efta thats why.
10:56 pm
Chris Whiteside said…
I agree that if Britain did vote to leave the EU, then the option of remaining a member of the EEA is certainly available, and should limit the extent to which we harm our trade with the EU.

It's not, however, a costless option. We would still be subject to Single Market rules while losing most of our influence over those rules.

I remember we had an exchange on this subject before and I accept that a Britain outside the EU would still be able to try to persuade those who set single market rules to change elements of the rules which were not working. But we would no longer have any voting power in setting them.

The important thing at the moment is to make sure that Britain does get a vote on the question.
9:13 pm
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