Too Chicken for a Referendum!
20 February 2008
Note: you can listen to the speech here
Today the European Parliament in a keynote debate discussed the Lisbon Treaty and gave the parliament's verdict. Jim Allister MEP used the debate to again demand a Referendum in the UK. Mr Allister also took part in a demonstration at the Parliament by British Eurosceptic MEPS, who wore shirts emblazoned with "Too Chicken for a Referendum" - a message directed at the British Government.
In the course of his speech the Traditional Unionist MEP said:-
"I reject this Report and the Treaty which it supports.
Before the French and Dutch referenda we heard much empty talk in this House about the will of the people. Why, because in their arrogance the EU's political elite believed the people would be conned by their propaganda about the Constitution. Suddenly, when the people caught them on, they ran with their tail between their legs, and they've been running ever since, petrified that the voters would reject them again.
That is why the key focus of the last 3 years has been on hatching an inter-governmental conspiracy to foist this Constitution on the peoples of Europe, without daring to ask them their opinion. Such arrogance, such tyranny; fitting, of course, because this Constitution is all about providing more and more national power to Brussels despots. Those who are indeed "Too chicken for a Referendum".
ENDS
