I WRITE with reference to the recent debate between Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage over the question of an in-out referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union.
Nick Clegg has stated that a referendum would be allowed, only, if there was question of the UK handing over more powers to the EU.
Did we have a say on the Lisbon Treaty (constitution) that Gordon Brown and David Miliband signed a few years ago? No we didn’t.
I – and I daresay most of the population of this country – haven’t a clue what was entailed in this tidying- up exercise as Blair used to call it. What powers were signed away then?
I wouldn’t trust Nick Clegg in sole power, I would have more faith in his namesake, Norman, from Last of the Summer Wine.
Some years ago, it was no secret that the Lib-Dems would have adopted the Euro as our currency had they been in charge.
I remember the Tories, just before the 2010 General Election saying a referendum at that time, if they got into power, would be, and this is what they said, a waste of time, as the Lisbon Treaty had been signed and what was in it was irreversible.
The Common Market on which we had a referendum in the ’70s was a good idea. However, did those that voted for it envisage what a political farce it would turn out to be?
Michael Clarke, Lewell Avenue, Old Marston, Oxford
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