Since 1998, the cost to the UK of regulations of EU origin has been £88 billion, and these now cost UK businesses £7 billion per annum.
According to the senior backbencher, Tory rebels are pushing the Government towards popular policies on migration, energy and sovereignty.
The senior backbencher writes that those who support such initiatives as Bernard Jenkin’s recent letter aren’t “the old and grumpy”.
It would be utterly reckless for the Labour and LibDem peers to prevent the people having a say.
It thinks that there has been a backlash against the missive – especially from members of the 2010 intake and Tory MPs in marginal seats.
To win, we must be willing to question our ideas and our arguments – but we must always trust the electorate.
Or the Get-Outer side will seem shifty and cynical.
Unless, that is, some of the 96 who signed the letter demanding a Commons veto didn’t grasp what they were signing.
But the Justice Secretary says it isn’t realistic for one Parliamentary to veto laws for the whole EU
Tories are cheerful, socialists gloomy, the Scots expect to vote No…and UKIP supporters expect England to be knocked out in the first round of the World Cup.
Indeed, its stagnant centralism and bureaucracy is more likely to inflame extremism and violence than prevent them.
“It would be almost a breach of the Salisbury Convention for us to veto the principle of an in-out referendum advanced by the LibDems at the last election.”
…none of which, of course, the BBC challenged him on.
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We must give reform a real go – and last week showed us how.