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Originally Posted by Retlaw
Even if we were ever to get a referendum, and the vote came out for leaving, the EU would just throw it out & demand another vote like they did with Ireland.
My thoughts are if Cameron played the referendum card, at the next EU summit, with conviction, then they might just back off, & stop interfering in Gt Britains affairs, & give us a better deal. The way things are with Greece at the moment, it might just make them stop & think.
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Has it really got to the point where the EU could thwart the democratically expressed wishes of the British public ... Ireland, maybe, but the UK? Isn't it the sixth or seventh wealthiest country in the world. I mean, we ain't talking River Dance and Guiness here. Since I have lived in Canada, we have had two hard-fought referenda on independence for la belle province de Quebec. A Canada without Quebec! And at the same time, there were rumblings from the Western Provinces, the Maritimes, and British Columbia (not a western province, in the sense that the UK is not European
) about separation for their regions. Scary times. However, if the folks in Quebec had voted to leave Confederation, the Feds and the other nine provinces would have accepted the democratically expressed wishes of the Quebecois. Europe is becoming a weird place ... and the krauts
... it's time they had another good ass kicking.
