Let Britain decide - Labour and Lib/Dem peers kill the referendum bill and vote not to give you a say on EU membership
Nick Herbert on his visit to flood hit areas of Cumbria
Please note that the post below was published more than ten years ago on 21st November 2009 Nick Herbert MP, shadow cabinet member for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, was in Cumbria this morning to see the areas affected by the flooding. He writes on Conservative Home about his visit. Here is an extract. I’ve been in Cumbria today to see the areas affected by the floods. I arrived early in Keswick where I met officials from the Environment Agency. Although the river levels had fallen considerably and homes were no longer flooded, the damage to homes had been done. And the water which had got into houses wasn’t just from the river – it was foul water which had risen from the drains. I talked to fire crews who were pumping flood water back into the river, and discovered that they were from Tyne & Wear and Lancashire. They had been called in at an hours’ notice and had been working on the scene ever since, staying at a local hotel. You cannot fail to be impressed by th...
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what? so far we have an offering of a referendum on a timescale that's not possible.
the say we deserve is very simple really, Its just simple a BINDING referendum, and I will even save parliament a lot of time by writing the question for them.
Who should govern the United Kingdom?
1 The British people
2 An unaccountable government in London
3 An unaccountable government in Brussels
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10605736/Francois-Hollande-says-non-to-treaty-change-before-the-EU-referendum.html
And forgive me Jim, since when did you start regarding President Holland's word as carrying such authority? I would have thought you would agree with even fewer of his opinions than I do.
Been saying for much longer than Hollande why the timescale is wrong, its just when he says it it tends to then become "news".
Rather a sad world we live in isnt it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/10610118/Unsung-heroes-gave-Owen-Paterson-his-solution-to-the-Somerset-floods-crisis.html
France under their present socialist president, however, is not one of them.
And forgive me again, I don't know where on earth you get the impression that the referendum envisaged in the Wharton Bill or promised by DC would not be binding. This is wrong.
The referendum the Conservatives are promising would be binding and would give the people a say. The Labour and Lib/Dem parties have shown that they do not intend to give the people of Britain that choice.
I stated its a false promise due to the re-negotiation, and the timescale of the new treaty which would be required.
ok i did say the referendum we deserve on "who should govern britain" should be binding, but i did not state that the the conservative party are not offering a binding referendum, only that they are offering a referendum which cant possibly pan out as promised in the promised timescale.
Now it was the advert in your post that promised people the say they deserve, and the say they deserve is as outlined above
Nigel Farage has torn up UKIP's previous manifesto and said that it will not be replaced until after the European elections, so until and unless he makes the position clear on the subject we simply do not know whether UKIP support a simple In-Out referendum, the sort of three way referendum in your post, or would just come straight out without a referendum.