Captain Ranty-Lawful Rebel: Action Stations!!
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If, like me, you think the EU is a festering corpse into which we
repeatedly inject massive amounts of money for almost no return (apart
from industrial amounts of stupidity), then I need to ask a favour.
Please write a letter/email to your MP/MSP/Assembly Member. Their details can be found
here.
The template for your letter/email, can be found
here.
It looks like this:
I note with great interest that the members of the
Backbench Business Committee have scheduled a debate on the question of a
motion surrounding a referendum on our EU membership for October 27th.
As a constituent, I am writing to you to ask how you
intend to vote following this debate, and to put forward my argument as
to why a referendum must be given.
I could write about how I, and millions upon millions
like me, have never had the opportunity to express an opinion on our
membership, either by dint of not being born or not being at the age of
majority at the time of the last referendum, and how the Prime
Minister’s statement that we have already had a say is akin to basing a
policy on the internet after inspecting one of Babbage’s difference
engines.
I could point out the fact that the EU has failed to
have its accounts signed off for almost two decades now, how whilst the
nation states of Europe are reduced to penury, the EU votes itself
ever larget budgets, about how the pattern of abuse of the expenses
system by some MEP’s is well documented, how their fiscal projects have
put a number of nations into bankruptcy, crippled with debt repayments
unprecedented in history, that this has been done against their own
laws and has almost dragged us down with them.
I could state that their behaviour and duplicity when
the Constitution/Lisbon treaty was being steamrollered through is
anti-democratic at best and the actions of a Stalinist Soviet at worst.
I could draw attention to the practices of adhering to the
regulations as set out by the EU makes life very difficult for
businesses, especially small businesses – the life blood of our economy,
and in many cases financially impossible.
I could highlight the costs of our membership, both in
terms of taxation taken from the public and the expense of complying
with ever more intrusive and complex edicts and directives from the EU.
Whilst I believe all these points are important, I think the matter comes down to a basic and vital question; Are we sovereign?
Ever closer union has only one logical outcome – a
complete political union where the nation states are reduced to the
level of federal states. It is all very well for Messers Cameron, Hague
and Duncan-Smith to talk about re-negotiations, saying no or not
allowing any further steps, but they are trying to negotiate a rebate
on the lunch money the playground bully has taken from them, and I am
not convinced that what is said at conference is said in Brussels.
[YOUR MPs NAME HERE], the question of the UK’s continued
existence as an independent and sovereign state is at stake here, and
the citizens of the UK must be allowed to deliver a binding verdict on
the subject, it cannot be signed away on the strength of the cabinet at
the time knowing ‘what is best’, and that verdict must be allowed to
be delivered without fear of retribution or sanction from the EU if
Parliament or the electorate return the ‘wrong’ decision in the eyes of
the EU.
You will no doubt not be surprised to read that in any
such referendum I would vote for our withdrawal, favouring as I do a
pure free trade model as espoused by Lord Tebbit. However, those who
hold a contrary view to mine simply must be able to express it to get
this issue sorted once and for all.
I look forward to your response.
All clear?
If you need to be reminded why
we do not need this vampire constantly at our throats, please do go and read
this.
Will your letter/email have any effect? I have no idea. I just know that I felt better for sending mine off.
Even if your representative is a dyed-in-the-wool Europhile, you will have noted your feelings on the matter with him/her.
You have nothing to lose.
CR.
