NIKKI SINCLAIRE GIVES NUNEATON THE
CHANCE TO “HAVE THEIR SAY” ABOUT EU
Issue Date: 26th June 2012
Independent
West Midlands MEP Nikki Sinclaire will be sending her Have Your Say Battle Bus to
Nuneaton on 29th June from 10am – 3pm. Nikki’s highly successful
campaign has been featured across the national press as she delivered 120,000
signatures to Downing Street and secured a debate in Parliament on 24th
October 2011. The Campaign for a Referendum on our continued membership of the
European Union is carrying on collecting signatures across the region, as well
as giving out information and advice about MEP’s and European Matters.
Nikki wants
a referendum so everybody has a chance to register their say on whether we
should be a part of the European Union, and the West Midlands has contributed
over half of the 120,000 signature total. Nikki is bringing her new petition
forms along to the event, so the members of the public have their chance to
have their names added to the new petition form. The new petition form aims to
become a bill in Parliament.
Anyone under
the age of 54 has never had the chance to speak about this issue, which Nikki
believes is a breach of our democratic principles. The last time the UK held a
referendum on the Common Market, as it was known then, was in 1975 – and even
this was retrospective. Despite the fact that this campaign could leave Ms
Sinclaire without a job, Nikki is passionate that people be given a voice in
deciding whether it is right that:
·
The
UK contributes £48 million per day to the EU
·
75%
of UK laws are decided by the EU yet the UK only has 72 MEPs in the Parliament
out of a total of 736 MEPs
·
Each
day we buy £5 million more from EU countries than they buy from us.
Commenting
on her “Have Your Say” campaign, Nikki Sinclaire said, “European
Law is rarely conducive or indeed relevant to British industry or
infrastructure. The EU takes almost £50 million a day of our money for the
privilege of belonging - money better spent in this country, where we need it
most - on our hospitals, on our schools and in supporting our pensioners. When
will the political elite realise that Britain cannot afford to remain in this
Parliament?”
Like many
towns across the UK, Nuneaton faces mounting cuts to public services. Nikki
finds it a disgrace that even as the British public tightens its belt, the EU
approves budget rises and other measures which will impact on the British
pocket.
Nikki’s team
of advisers will be with her mobile surgery in Nuneaton Town Centre (Opposite
Wilkinsons) from 10am – 3pm to collect signatures for the campaign, hand out
literature and to give out information and advice about Nikki and the European
Union.
To sign online, please go to www.HaveYourSay.eu