| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:The Squalid Campaign | |
| Posted by: | Richard Greenhough | |
| Date/Time: | 06/06/16 16:38:00 |
| "With a General election we vote for a leader and company for 5 years and quite simply if we the electorate are displeased with what the party of the day we vote for another party." Attempting an EU renegotiation and calling an In-Out referendum following it was a clear Conservative manifesto commitment. It may well be that without that commitment the UKIP vote would have been considerably higher and we would now be suffering under a government led by Milibean Minor. Ted Heath ignored his 1970 manifesto commitment to not join the EEC (as it then was) without the wholehearted consent of the British people - this turned out to mean "I won the General Election so we are going to join". He and Harold Wilson then combined to pull the wool over the eyes of the electorate in the 1975 referendum campaign. John Major signed us up to the Maastricht Treaty without asking for a popular mandate to do so. Gordon Bean ignored the commitment in the 2005 Labour manifesto to hold a Referendum before signing up to the Lisbon treaty. To give Cameron his due, he made a manifesto commitment and he has stuck to it. Now we have to take the once-in-a-generation opportunity to leave an organisation we should never have joined in the first place. |