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John Cruddas Backs EU Referendum Campaign

November 24, 2011 3:24 pm

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  • Anonymous

     It’s all about trust and all about trusting people, I remember Cruddas on Compass who decided we would fight a campaign to battle Welfare reforms and we decided to email people get MPs and we had thousand of people names and came the vote Cruddas did not even turn up, we then found Brown had got him and he just stayed away. old saying once bitten twice shy.

    I suspect If this became a party campaign many people would remember Blair’s promise and then change of mind, it’s all about whether you believe people, whether you trust people. and I do not tend to trust to many MP’s these days especially not the careerist.

    I suspect if we voted no and to pull out of the EU, you’d find politicians leaving the country, as the bunch who now are on the gravy train in the EU going  nuts that gravy  train would stop.

    • Mike Homfray

      I’m still waiting for a properly worked-out alternative to the EU. Lots of negatives but what is the positive alternative

  • Anonymous

    “Fog in Channel, Continent cut off.”
    Ridiculous isn’t it!

    “Fog in channel, UK cut off.” Well, outside the EU, we have the whole world like the BRICS, like Singapore and Dubai and USA and the Commonwealth (perhaps you don’t like trading with black people yourself?) to go at.

    Once we get out of the stranglehold of the EU bureaucracy, we can be free to trade wherever we like and in freedom.

    A lot of working people – fishermen, farmers, oilmen (Shale), railway workers – might be very glad of some freedom to work unmolested.

  • jaime taurosangastre candelas

    The positive alternative is a trading bloc, as per EEC.  No Euro Parliament, no Euro social interference, no Commissioners, no van Rompuys or Barrosos, no eurocrats, no MEPs, no Euro treaties, no External Action Service, no super-national entity at all. Not much cost, either, certainly not the £45M we pay daily for this EU nonsense.

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