Jul 06 2007
Give us a referendum
New evidence abounds that Gordon Brown is not a Eurosceptic after all. Anyone sceptical about more power going the Brussels would talk differently about the latest Treaty of Amendment, and would offer a referendum. Eurosceptic sites are pointing out that Kitty Usher, the new City Minsiter, comes from a pro EU integration background, and is probably an advocate of the tax harmonisation going on by stealth.
Today the GMB have joined the campaign for a referendum. Good for them. They understand this is the old Constitution reheated, and understand??it takes substantial power away from the UK. We need to increase the pressure on the new PM. If he does not deliver a referendum, all his words on restoring trust in politics and listening to the people are so much hogwash.
John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College...
Brown is treacherous to his own supporters as much as to anyone else. He is running huge risks by abandoning the referendum promise, by dumping the Trade Unions from their policy role, and introducing a Public Sector pay freeze. He’s destroying the consensus that holds the Labour Party together.
There are some big hitters on the Labour back benches now in Charles Clark and John Reid. They are just waiting for Brown to overreach himself.
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