Well done to David Cameron for raising the possibility of an EU Referendum during a meeting with President Hollande recently, well done former Defence Secretary Liam Fox who has recommended that the UK should leave the European Union unless there is a rebalancing of their relationship, and well done to all of the Conservative MPs who put their name to a recent call for a referendum on the EU .
For far too long far too many people have had their lives dictated to by unelected Brussels bureaucrats without having a say in a referendum and as Nigel Farage has pointed out on so many occasions, the British people are not stupid.
They understand the position and like me are sick of broken promises on European Referendums not least because of the decision of Tony Blair and the last Labour Government to change their mind on a Referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
Seventy per cent of Conservative members want to cut ties with Brussels completely and eighty per cent want a referendum pledge in the next Conservative election manifesto.
When Britain originally signed up to the European Economic Community we were told that it would just be a single market trading zone not the dictat we currently get from Brussels. There has never been a better time for other EU members to mind their business.
Now is the right time to have a debate about whether to stay in or pull out?
People need to realise that the E.U. is nothing but a racket of bureaucracy, a base for meddlers, and a home for those who love to distort the truth all of their lives so as to jump on the gravy train for a rewarding retirement.
As a single nation we need to govern ourselves as far away as possible from the interference from the rest of the EU who clearly only want to push themselves further towards the kind of centralisation which is not in Britain's interests and far from Brussels bureaucrats and europhiles telling us that withdrawl would cost us trade and jobs one only has to look closely at the statistics and the truth is there to see because whilst our trade outside the E.U. is at record levels, our trade with E.U. member states continues to fall.
Therefore, nothing would be better at strengthening Britain's negotiating hand than to pass into law in this Parliament a binding commitment to a referendum because people deserve the truth, people deserve their freedom back, and above all, in order for Britain to get its economic freedom back, people deserve a referendum on withdrawing from the E.U. sooner rather than later.
