The Government believes that EU Membership is firmly in Britain’s national interest, and remains committed to ensuring that the EU is focussed on adding value for its citizens.
Our membership of the EU has brought real benefits in jobs, peace and security. Through it, we belong to the world’s biggest trading bloc. Half the UK’s trade is now within the EU, with an estimated 3.5 million British jobs linked to it. Our membership allows us to live, work and travel across Europe and to receive free medical care if we fall sick on holiday. And each citizen benefits in ways that are harder to quantify in cash terms, such as a cleaner environment, trade deals negotiated by the EU, and better security.
There was a referendum on UK membership of the European Economic Community in June 1975, which was passed in favour of membership. Thereafter, each Treaty change has been approved by the democratically elected British Parliament. No government, Labour or Conservative, has ever held a referendum on an amending European treaty. Parliament remains the correct place for debate and decision on such treaties.
In other words:
"We know better than you do. We can't think of any real benefits to being in the EU, here are some fluffy words that sound nice. The only jobs that are protected are those of the Eurocrats. We promised you a referendum in our manifesto, but we aren't going to give it to you.
"Fuck you, who do you think you are anyway? You're just a voter and a taxpayer. Insignificant cunts."
5 comments:
"No government, Labour or Conservative, has ever held a referendum on an amending European treaty. Parliament remains the correct place for debate and decision on such treaties."
Be very careful, you fuckers, because not long from now, the streets will be where decisions are made.
I've just blogged a Kraut moaning as well. Have a read
Faced with gummint-approved drivel like that, it's difficult to know where to start.
This generates such rage in me. I can trot out all the usual lines about the EU not being what we voted for in 1975, about how the whole show is anti-democratic, but what's the point.
OH hits the nail on the head. My rage is impotent. At the moment. I go to sleep dreaming about that afternoon in Bucharest when Ceaucescu's penny finally dropped. . .
Will they still say that when the rope is around their necks?
Jesus Christ im so angry i can barely type!!!!! The arrogant, self important, twat bags!!! What the fuck? Where do they have the balls to come up with a statement like that? Like an old mans shrivelled cock the EU deserves to be consigned to history and forgotten about.
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