I've been published on the Total Politics blog about the continued Campaign for a Referendum on Britain's continued membership of the European Union.
An extract,
"No government dependent on a democratic vote could possibly agree in advance to the sacrifices which any adequate plan for European Union must involve. The people must be led slowly and unconsciously into the abandonment of their traditional economic defences, not asked…'
So wrote Peter Thorneycroft, Edward Heath’s Tory colleague and friend.
French PM Raymond Barre was still more explicit in his contempt. “I have never understood why public opinion about European ideas should be taken into account at all,” he said.
Such autocracy in the face of democratic will has characterised the European project from the outset. The Commission, from which 75% of our laws emanate, is unelected. The Parliament is an impotent charade.
In 1975, our parents were asked if they fancied being members of a common market. We have never been asked whether we wanted to surrender the power of the people in Parliament, the supremacy of our own Courts or a huge proportion of our GDP and natural resources.
It is a tenet of natural law that there can be no constitutional change without plebiscite. Our constitution has been bulldozed without permission."
The full blog can be found on the Total Politics blog here
