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Originally Posted by g jones
*I note *today’s Ecofin meeting has been cancelled & more than £18bn was wiped off the value of shares in London in just 20 minutes when EU officials also warned of the *consequences of the crises engulfing Europe. An EU in out referendum would have been a tragedy at this time. Bare in mind the low value of shares is hitting retiring pensioners hard. Playing this kind of politics with people's lives is not right.
And out the dust the truth emerges. I have repeated this many times. Labour voters should run a million miles from Euroskeptisism.
Cameron, Gove and Co are trying now to buy off Eurosceptics with threat to employment rights’ such as maternity and paternity leave, paid holidays, agency workers rights, TUPE etc..
Whe you are privileged to be on the inside, these are the things you see more clearly and decisively.
I can understand Tories and right wingers being anti EU. Working class people should not be supporting the Jacksons, the Holloways and the Nuttalls. With the dust settling and the Tory party fighting in public over the issue, we should take a good long hard look at the people we shod be worried about, Tory EU rebels and what they have really meant by anti EU.
Their mistaken idea (fundamentally flawed actually) is a Britain that is isolated from Europe on protections, employment, food and drink, environment where as Redwood stated (and it says is it all) "we can still buy German cars and French wine".
I believe it is common sense for working people to step away from supporting these arguments.
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By carrying on your pro-European Union argument, after the event, don't you realise you're weakening your stance even further?
You've now made it very clear what you believe in.
What the people believe is now rendered irrelevant.
Because despite stating just over two weeks ago that you didn't have a problem with a referendum, as it would settle the issue democratically, you voted against it.
It could be argued that you used your position to protect the U.K's membership of the E.U., and in doing so denied people their right to have their democratic right to have their view counted.
What are you so afraid of, if there's a debate, both for and against, and then the people of Britain can decide what they want?
As far as the European Union is concerned, the British people have never been allowed a say in the matter, so far.