Last week residents of East Stoke, a Dorset village voted in a referendum about whether the nation should be surveyed on the new legislation for the European treaty
The vote was called when a local resident, John Barnes, used an obscure provision of the 1972 Local Government Act which states that if 10 members of a parish call for a vote on any subject then the council is obliged to carry out the request.
Mr Barnes said he hoped the result would lead to further polls being held across the country to put pressure on Prime Minister Gordon Brown to call a referendum on whether to accept the treaty.
Imre Niedermayer, Hungarian-born landlord of the village pub, The Stokeford Inn, said he was happy to take the time to cast his vote as he believed the poll represented "democracy in action".
"What this is about is democracy. I was brought up under communism and unless we have a vote about this treaty and unless we are all allowed to make our contribution to politics then it is not healthy and we will end up with a police state."
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Saturday 22 September 2007
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Thanks for posting this story, pity you omitted to mention that it was the UKIP who organised the vote. Conservatives are too busy sitting on the fence to do anything.
This last statement is completely untrue. I think it was prior to the last election that both Conservative and Labour said there should be a referendum before this country accepted a new treaty on Europe. I and most Conservatives believe there should still be a Referendum. Gordom Brown and his cronies do not.
Why do I think there should be a referendum? If we accept the new treaty we will give up 60 vetoes to Europe, we will have to withdraw from the United Nations and be represented by Europe, so we will lose control over our foreign policy and we will have no control over our borders. Our whole legal system becomes subservient to EU Courts. Our laws which have been built up since Magna Carta in a case by case manner will be nothing more that the stuff of history.
Meanwhile Eastleigh's Liberal democrat Parliamentary candidate continues to support our integration into Europe.
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