Cameron Renews Referendum Demand
In this morning’s Sun, David Cameron renewed the Conservative’s call for Gordon Brown to fulfil Labour’s General Election manifesto pledge to hold a Referendum on the EU Constitution.
It’s also being reported by the Telegraph that as many as one hundred and twenty Labour MPs could be set to defy the whip and Gordon Brown over his failure to consult the people on this vital issue.
Practically all the leaders in Europe have admitted that the EU ‘Reform Treaty’ is practically identically and virtually indistinguishable from the Constitution which was chucked out by French and Dutch voters only two years ago.
German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, said, ‘the fundamentals of the Constitution have been maintained in large part’. The Spanish Prime Minister, Jose Zapatero, commented that ‘a great part of the content of the European Constitution is captured in the new treaties’, and Bertie Ahern the Irish PM said, ‘thankfully they haven’t changed the substance - 90 per cent of it is still there’ – and yet Mr Ahern is still giving the people of Ireland a referendum.
The only politicians desperately continuing with the charade that says the new Treaty is substantially different to the old Constitution are the European Governments that do not wish to let their people have a say. Britain is most definitely one of those.
In his Sun article, David Cameron’s criticisms of Gordon Brown and our Labour Government are extremely well placed. He is completely right in observing that the Labour leadership have become incredibly arrogant, to the extent they believe they always know best.
Mr Cameron is also absolutely correct in asking the Prime Minister, ‘what makes you think you can change the way our country is governed without asking the British people first?’ We’re still waiting for the answer, Mr Brown…
