The vanishing referendum
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http://www.conservatives.com/Campaigns/Give_us_a_Referendum.aspx
oh dear – it’s vanished.
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posted by Luke Akehurst at 3:04 pm
Thursday, November 05, 2009
http://www.conservatives.com/Campaigns/Give_us_a_Referendum.aspx
oh dear – it’s vanished.
Luckily, you can look at a cached version here.
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- Name: Luke Akehurst
- Location: North Durham, County Durham, United Kingdom
Labour MP for North Durham since 2024. Labour Party activist since 1988 - firmly on the moderate wing of the party. Member of Labour’s NEC 2010-2012 and since 2020. National Secretary of Labour Students 1995-6. Parliamentary candidate for Aldershot (2001) and Castle Point (2005). Hackney Councillor (Chatham Ward) 2002-2014, Labour Group Chief Whip 2002-09, Chair of Health Scrutiny 2010-2014. Dad. Unite and GMB union member. All views expressed in a personal capacity. The rest will become evident from reading the blog.
6 Comments:
It appears to have gone the way of Labour's campaign against Lib Dem plans to privatise the post office.
It's a facetious point though - it is no longer open to a UK Government to have a referendum on Lisbon, because there is nothing it could do in response to the outcome of that referendum.
3:28 pm, November 05, 2009
Is it true that Cameron will soon play the lead in a new Marvel superhero movie - 'Cast-Iron Man'?
Like John Major's 1992 pledge to cut taxes year on year, Cameron's promises means absolutely nothing.
6:09 pm, November 05, 2009
Here goes Arnold again - guaranteed to give everyone a laugh with his unique and childish remarks.
Arnold you just gotta be a Tory stooge you prat.
The only people at fault here are the NL scumbags that dragged us into this horrible mess in Europe.
Makes no difference though - Labour is doomed and rightly so.
The betrayal of the working classes in Britain by the likes of Burnham, Bliar, Brown and co is shameful but May 6th next year will be party time in the UK when they get rightly trounced!
7:30 pm, November 05, 2009
The reality is that this treaty has been ratified because they knew a conservative government would have torn it up. Without the UK on board there would have been no treaty at all.
Whether you agree with the conservative stance on Europe or not the British people should have been allowed to vote on this matter as promised by Brown and Blair before the last election.
It is a betrayal of the largest magnitude that the people of this country were promised a vote and then denied that opportunity. Labour won an election based on the promise of a vote and then went back on this promise ....making this government null and void.
11:16 pm, November 06, 2009
I struggle to think the Election will be about Europe... Labour can try all they like to make this about Cameron's broken promise, but the fact is that they broke their manifesto commitment too. At best a no score draw.
11:55 am, November 07, 2009
Luke, if your team want to make Europe an election issue than I think that the Conservatives are up for it. I would compare the policies and track record very carefully before you went down that road though. I wouldn't want to be a Labour candidate arguing on the doorstep why Gordon Brown ditched British people's referendum on Lisbon or why the Conservative's proposed Sovereignty bill is such a bad thing. In fact, I haven't heard any coherent argument from Labour against the latter at all. What is the current line? Do tell?
10:05 pm, November 07, 2009
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