Wednesday, November 02, 2005

David Davis promises referrenda on the EU

David Davis has promised two referenda on the EU if he takes the Tories to an election victory.

The first referendum will ask whether we want to take back powers ceded to the European Union.

The content of the second referendum will then be decided on what was decided in the first one and on the results of talks between him and the EU.

I'm not anti-European but I would like to see all law making powers given to the EU returned back to the British government. The EU was sold to the people of this country as a trading bloc, not a political union.

The public were misled and the EU, with the help of subsequent British governments, have taken too much power away from the elected representatives of this country (however dubious their victory and mandate may be) and given it to unelected European officials who are immune from prosecution and consequently almost entirely corrupt and devoid of moral responsibility.

This, along with David Davis' previous record on English devolution, would probably be enough to get a Conservative vote out of me and that is an achievment because I have never even considered voting Tory.