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Originally Posted by g jones
At the 2010 General Election Labour did stand on a pro EU ticket without referendum. Whatever my own personal views are, any shift from that would be a case of MPs promising one thing and doing another. I would legitamaly anger pro EU Labour voters who quite rightly feel cheated.
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How can you feel cheated if you are allowed to have a say. Is it fair that a large proportion of this country have never had a say in this destiny of their country?
What about the large number of people who want to either re-negotiate our terms/leave the EU altogether.....it is Ok for them to feel cheated, is it?
And because Labour stood on a Pro-Europe ticket without any promise of a referendum Graham, does that not lead you to suspect that that may be one of the reasons why they were not re-elected?
I know my memory is dimming a little, but I
do remember campaigns where parties said they would, if elected, give the electorate a chance to have a say on the EU...........then, because they could see how difficult it would be if the vote went against being in the EU, they reneged on their promises.
I really do struggle with my conscinence at the time of elections because I know I am being lied to....the parties(all of them) tell the electorate what they think we want to hear, and certainly they tell us what they
think we should know. This does not sit well with me. Increasingly their is a blurring of the demarcation lines between the parties, which means, effectively, that there isn't really a choice at all.....except perhaps the choice of lesser evils(and recently they haven't been that 'lesser').
These are just my humble(thought out...considered) opinions, so I know they aren't worth much.