Letter: Tories will retreat from treaty pledge

Correspondent • Published 8 Oct 2009 08:00 0 Comments

Should we be surprised that the Irish have now achieved the 'right' result in their referendum on the Lisbon Treaty by voting 'yes'?

The Irish are lucky in so much as their laws demand that a referendum must be held if significant changes to the governing of their country is planned. I wonder how many more times they might have been asked to vote to get it 'right'.

Perhaps in the interests of fairness there should now be a third and binding vote on the 'best of three' principle!

I watched David Cameron being interviewed by the increasingly-probing Andrew Marr and it is quite obvious that the Conservative pledge to give us a vote on the Lisbon Treaty is a case of political spin and little else. The Tories will give us our vote providing they achieve office before all members states have ratified the treaty.

Mr Cameron knows this is extremely unlikely as the Gordon and Mandy show will hold on at all costs until this undemocratic treaty is passed into law.

The Conservatives go on to tell us that if this is the situation they "will not leave it there". What does that mean I wonder? Precisely nothing I would suggest.

Labour and Lib Dems went back on their clear promise of a referendum and the Tories are simply doing the same by a back door method.

The electorate of the UK is long overdue a straightforward vote on whether we should remain a full member of the EU or whether, like Norway and Switzerland, we should be a non-member with trade agreements.

Do we need to remain a member of this undemocratic club whose corruption runs so deep that the accounts have not been signed off for 14 years and membership of which costs the UK £40m per day? Top that with the possibility that Tony Blair may become the first EU President.

When exactly would we get a vote on that?

Howard Thomas, Common Sense Party

Cardiff Road, Reading

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