We would vote against a referendum on the treaty and vote that the real referendum that needs to be had is whether we stay in the EU or not…Calamity Clegg
You would have thought that having a new leader was the perfect opportunity to dump this tosh of having a referendum on whether we are in or out. If having a referendum on being in/out of Europe is so important then why is not having one on this treaty - which the Lib Dems promised to give us at the last General election. Even, Nigel Farage of UKIP (who you thought would have supported dear Calamity on this) is saying that:
“So obsessive are the Lib Dems in their belief in the European state that they are breaking their pledge to hold a referendum on the constitutional treaty.”
What Calamity Clegg is forgetting is that this issue is about trust in politicians as much as it is about whether the treaty is a constitution. Instead, Cleggy has decided that the Lib Dems want to demonstrate, to all those that believe this Government is failing, that come a hung Parliament the Lib Dems will be jumping in to bed with Gordon Shrek as soon as possible.
People forget, and the Lib Dems have successfully hidden this for some time, that the Lib Dems are a Euro federalist party who want to cede all this nations powers to Europe. I believe in European co-operation but not Euro-federalism.
Still, David Laws (Lib Dem parliamentary candidate in Yeovil) has already said that those many people in his constituency who want to debate our role in Europe are the “lunatic fringe”, so it is clear that the Lib Dems are not really trying to move this debate on, just trying to get themselves out of their own hole.
BBC NEWS | Politics | Lib Dems oppose referendum vote
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