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Originally Posted by garinda
The last time we had a referendum on our membership, when it was still called the Common Market, and was purely a trade alliance, was way back in 1975.
At the last General Election Labour promised there would be another referendum if they won. Something Brown has shamefully renegaded on.
Tory-Lite had made a similar promise, if they win the forthcoming General Election. Though this seems it won't now happen, because the Lisbon Treaty is/has been ratified.
Instead of being members of an economic trade alliance, we've aquired another (more powerful) level of government, and the very sovereignty of the country has been eroded, and the man and woman in the street doesn't have the slightest clue how this has come about.
All opinion polls show the majority of the population aren't happy with the present situation.
Another worry for the electorate, that the main political parties seem able to turn a blind eye to.
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I always thought that the Common Market was a good idea ... maybe more than that, an inevitability, like NAFTA ... but a United States of Europe, I don't be thinking so. I just can't see what is in it for the UK
But if the Lisbon Treaty has been ratified by, what is it, twenty seven different govts., there must be some perceived benefit. Maybe I'm just too dense to see it. Many Canadians felt that the Federal Govt. (Progressive Conservatives at the time at the time of NAFTA) was headed towards something more than a trade agreement with the US, and the voters punished the PCs in a general election ... the tories were reduced from a majority in parliament to a rump of, I think, four members ... the party was effectively destroyed ... if this little bit of Canadian political history has any point, it is that democracy can work in dramatic ways.