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Posted by Greg Lance - Watkins (Greg_L-W) on 10/08/2011
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MOST people would vote for Britain to leave the EU in a referendum, an independent poll reveals today.
In the biggest sign yet that public opinion is rallying against the UK’s membership, 52 per cent of voters said they want to leave the European Union.
Only 30 per cent said they wanted to remain in the EU, according to the YouGov poll.
And six out of 10 people want to have the final say on whether we pull out.
The poll compiled for the Campaign for a Referendum, piles further pressure on David Cameron to hold the first referendum on Europe since 1975.
Nikki Sinclaire, who runs the campaign, said: “This is an encouraging development and raises the prospect of an early debate on our continued membership of the EU.
“Almost eight in 10 people want a national debate on the pros and cons of EU membership.”
Only 30 per cent said they wanted to remain in the EU, according to the YouGov poll.![]()
“The huge response to our campaign, together with the findings of our poll, show that most people want their say.”
The Independent MEP, added: “Clearly the people of Britain want to decide who governs Britain. It must be alarming to the Government that despite all their assurances on sovereignty and cast-iron promises, more and more people have given up on this European project. This argument has gone on far too long, we must decide our course once and for all in a binding referendum.”
Analysis shows that EU membership costs Britain £48 million a day, which amounts to £4,912 per household over the last 11 years.
The results of today’s poll adds further weight to the Daily Express petition to force a Commons debate on leaving the EU.
All demands which get at least 100,000 signatures on the Government’s new e-petition site will have to be considered for a debate in Parliament.
Before the official launch of the site, the Daily Express had already gathered 75,000 signatures backing the call for a referendum which we established on our own website. We are pressing the Government to add those names to the official petition on its site, which itself is already approaching the 10,000 mark.
Readers who added their names to our original petition on http://www.express.co.uk can expect to receive an email in the next few days from the official e-petition site requesting their permission for their names to be added.
Just click on the link you receive by email and your signature will be transferred to the official Government petition.Joining our campaign will force the country’s politicians to discuss an issue that is gathering momentum as Britain bails out failing eurozone states.
To view the original Express article CLICK HERE
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Posted in Daily Express, Nikki SINCLAIRE MEP, PETITION for an EU Referendum, YouGov | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Greg Lance - Watkins (Greg_L-W) on 15/07/2011
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Can it be true they have been too busy squabbling and engorging to even have a vision, a strategy, tactics or even a plan after 18 years!
Is UKIP nothing more than a self interest claque of trash too self obsessed to provide answers when a chance comes along?
Is UKIP Leadership and its parasites just a part of the problem – OUR-ENEMY-WITHIN along with all the other self enriching politicians and the bloated and over paid Snivil Cervice!
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Friday July 15 2011 by Alison Little Deputy Political Editor
BRITAIN should consider quitting the EU, scornful Euro MPs said yesterday after the Daily Express exposed Brussels’ latest power grab.
During heated exchanges, British MEPs were heckled at an EU meeting as they referred to our front page report that Brussels could force sports stars to wear the EU flag on their kit.
The German committee chairwoman, Doris Pack, accused Ukip MEP Paul Nuttall of grandstanding when he flourished a copy of yesterday’s Daily Express and described the EU proposal as “baloney”.
She said, to applause from some MEPs, that it was just “better not” to speak about the British press.
She later added: “In the Lisbon Treaty there is a possibility to leave the EU … I only wanted to say it.”
MEPs at the meeting said they understood her comments to mean Britain had the mechanism to leave the EU if it wanted. Mr Nuttall said: “The chairwoman got quite irate and said the good thing about the Lisbon Treaty is that it includes a clause that would let us leave, that would allow we British to leave.”
It’s outrageous. It’s an affront to our national teams![]()
Tory MP Tracey Crouch
Yesterday we revealed how the European Parliament is considering, as part of wide ranging report on sport, plans to force European teams to wear the EU flag on their kit in addition to their national flag.
The idea that sports stars, including our football, rugby, cricket and Olympic teams, might have to display the blue and yellow symbol prompted outrage in Britain.
Tory MP Tracey Crouch, who is a qualified FA coach, said: “It’s outrageous. It’s an affront to our national teams.”
Former England football manager Graham Taylor said: “When competing European nations play against each other it seems pointless to have the European flag on both teams’ shirts. It seems a bit daft.”
The proposal featured in a draft motion debated yesterday at the EU Parliament’s culture and education committee suggesting ways to develop a “European dimension” in sport.
It said that “the European flag should be flown at major sports events held on EU territory and suggests that it should be displayed on the clothing of athletes from member states”.
Mr Nuttall, Ukip’s deputy leader, told the meeting there was “a fair bit of sense” in the overall document. But on the EU flag proposal he said he “didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when I read it”.
Holding up a copy of yesterday’s Daily Express, he declared: “You’ve only got to look at what the English press is writing to see this idea is utter baloney, it’s mad.” Amid jeering from other MEPs, the chairwoman called for order before Mr Nuttall insisted that any flag ruling would be “repugnant to many people in the UK”.
Curtly slapping him down, Ms Pack said: “Thank you very much, you had your broadcasting, your TV, you had everything you wanted – but you’re not right.” She urged Mr Nuttall to read the draft motion to see that the “tiny” flag issue was “a proposal, not an obligation”.
British Conservative MEP Emma McClarkin was also later rebuked by Ms Pack after she said the flag idea was “absolutely outrageous”. Miss McClarkin said Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Irish teams did not display the British flag let alone the EU flag. She added: “It’s a very sensitive issue. If you go for vanity projects like this, you’re going to turn people off from the EU.”
Ms Pack retorted that the “wonderful” report was “not about the European flag” and that MEPs should not keep going on about it.
Speaking after the meeting, Mr Nuttall said he believed some of the MEPs were “very keen” on the flag idea. He added: “I believe they will push this forward because if the EU becomes more and more unpopular across the Continent, they will try to use sport as a tool of propaganda.”He has tabled an amendment to delete the relevant clause from the draft motion, which had been proposed by a Spanish MEP.
The committee is due to vote on the package in October. If passed, it will go to the European Parliament, and then potentially be presented to the European Commission as a proposal for legislation. EU member governments would also have to approve.
An EU Commission spokeswoman said it was “not against” the flag proposal but conceded that it was “controversial”.
To view the original article CLICK HERE
You will remember this story about National Teams being forced to wear EU Logos was published by me last weekend! The article I published was on 09-Jul-2011 details can be seen if you CLICK HERE
Seeing it eventually making front page of The Express is good news as it will bring it to the attention of many more people than I ever could!!
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