Referendum on Europe?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.thisislond...call-eu-referendum.do

A 100,000-name petition for a referendum on the EU is to delivered to No.10 Downing Street.delivered.

David Cameron was reported to have said,

"We are in Europe, we have got to make it work for us."

How is giving the £1.4bn train contract,to Germany's Siemens, making it work for us?

[Gromit]

How many more times - it isn't British.

Which figures do you dispute? What do you believe to be the correct figures?

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// How many more times - it isn't British ///

How many more times - I am not talking about the company, I was referring to BRITISH jobs.

Your unconfirmed statement:

/// Bombardier is not a British company. It employs 5,000 in the UK. ///

My proof taken from the BBC link:

/// Bombardier, which is based in Canada, has estimated it supports 12,000 employees in its UK supply chain.///

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-14026903

[New Judge]

Perhaps I should have said “...fooled into believing it would remain..”, Kromovaracum.

There is absolutely no doubt that from the outset the ultimate aim of the “Common Market” was a Federal Europe. Of course this could not have been said from the outset (and still cannot) and so the aim is to achieve it by stealth, each small step “no big deal” but taken cumulatively, a very big deal indeed. Had politicians been honest with the electorate in 1975 the answer may well have been very different.

And so we reach the point we are at today – where the government cannot even decide which contractor builds the nation’s trains without complying with European law. The issue is not who gets the contract but the rules under which it is awarded. You keep telling us to “get over it” Gromit. We would if we had been properly asked what we want. Politicians have been dishonest with voters for more than fifty years on this issue and it is time they came clean, told it how it is and let the voters decide.