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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

It beats me why, with a reported 80% of the population in favour of a referendum, our elected representatives felt justified in disregarding the national sense of unease over this issue.

What next?

I suppose the campaign for a referendum on getting out of the EU altogether starts here!

Because the whole concept of British democracy is flawed in the extreme. It is akin to a DICTATORSHIP.

The first and major flaw is that the PM chooses who serves in the cabinet and front bench and if they do not toe the line they loose their job and the lucrative perks that go with it. Self-interest almost guarantees that the front bench sycophants do as they are told.

MP’s are forced to vote the way the whole party votes under pain of expulsion from the party. The Whips see to it that they do.

Too many front benchers are versed in law and thus know how to ‘fiddle’ the words to make them mean something different.

The only campaign that I am aware of is the with the UKIP party at http://www.ukip.org/ukip/index.php where there is a list of which MP voted which way on the EU Treaty.

“MISSION STATEMENT
The UK Independence Party is committed to withdrawing Britain from the European Union. As the debate on the new Constitution has now made clear, the EU agenda is complete political union with all the main functions of national government taken over by the bureaucratic institutions of Brussels.

UKIP believes that this is not only bad for Britain's economy and prosperity, but it is an alien system of government that will ultimately prove to be totally unacceptable to the British people. UKIP would replace Britain's membership of the European Union with the kind of agreements on free trade and co-operation that we thought we had signed up to when we first joined what was then called the European Economic Community..

The UK Independence Party is the fourth largest political party in the UK. We currently have 9 members of the European Parliament who use their positions exclusively to expose the true nature of the EU and to campaign for British withdrawal. Our party has a full range of policies including a firm line on immigration. A policy of non-discrimination is enshrined in our constitution.”

You can join the UKIP for £20 pa or £10 if you are on benefits, are a student or an OAP. Payment is by credit card.

It is time to put my money where my mouth is.

Is anyone going to join me?