Brits seek historic referendum to determine whether to leave European Union

Speaking as an American to my British cousins, how can a nation be part of the EU and still maintain its cultural sovereignty? The EU was a horrible idea to begin with and should be abolished immediately.

Collectivism doesn’t work and it’s high Europe learns that lesson.

So, get the hell out the EU if you can and don’t look back. Be a great nation, again!

Daily Mail reports that a major political campaign will be launched today aimed at securing a historic referendum on whether Britain should stay in the EU – or quit Brussels for good.

The cross-party ‘People’s Pledge’ campaign aims to pile pressure on party leaders and MPs to support a poll that would settle the divisive question of EU membership once and for all.
It hopes to emulate Barack Obama by harnessing the power of the internet to mobilise support in every constituency.

Polling for the campaign launch shows that 61 per cent would like a referendum on whether Britain should remain within the European Union, with just 25 per cent against. A majority of supporters of all three parties back the idea.

It means support for a referendum on the EU is more than double the level for the referendum on changing Britain’s voting system planned for May 5.

Voters will now be invited to sign up to the ‘People’s Pledge’, promising to only support candidates at the next election who vow to support a referendum.

The pledges will be registered by constituency on the campaign’s website – allowing MPs and rival candidates to see the level of support in their area. The aim is to focus initially on the 100 most marginal seats, where campaigners believe their number of supporters could quickly exceed the majorities of serving MPs.

Prominent Left-winger Mark Seddon, director of the campaign, said the initiative had the potential to tap into ‘huge latent demand’ for a referendum. He added: ‘Our message is simple – if you believe that the people, and not politicians, should decide the UK’s relationship with the EU, sign the People’s Pledge.

‘There is huge latent demand for this, as our polling shows. People are fed up with this denial of democracy in which they are given a referendum on whether there should be extra powers for Wales, but not on the issues they care about because they are deemed too hot to handle.

‘We want to put as much pressure on political parties as possible to agree to hold a referendum. They keep on making promises about referendums but they never deliver. If you are under 54 you have never had a chance to vote on this.’

In 1975, the public voted ‘Yes’ to the question of whether the UK should remain within the then European Community.

But campaigners say the EU has changed beyond all recognition since then – making an overwhelming case for a fresh vote on the issue. Since then five major EU treaties have been passed without a poll, handing Brussels power over huge swathes of British life.


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Look at how the EU treats the Britain.