Letter to the Crewe Chronicle 14 / 1/ 14

Dear Sir

I hope the Labour and Liberal Democrat voters of Crewe and Nantwich are fully aware of the shameful actions of those parties in Westminster this week, in deliberately attempting to deprive the general public of their democratic right to determine who runs our country.

The Bill for a referendum over the UK’s continued membership of the EU was passed overwhelmingly in the democratically elected House of Commons. This important piece of legislation is aimed at giving the people of the United Kingdom a say in who governs our country, makes our laws and spends our taxes; The Democratically Elected Government in London, or the unelected and unaccountable European Commission in Brussels, Strasbourg, Luxembourg or wherever else they have seen fit to build a new Parliament Building with our money.

As many of your readers know, it is necessary for all legislation the government wishes to enact to be debated in House of Lords, from where is may be returned to the Commons with amendments, before being passed for Royal Assent.

Labour and Liberal Peers disgracefully attempted to derail the EU Referendum Bill in the Lords by requesting over 80 ridiculous amendments and making as many drawn out speeches as necessary for the limited debating time to expire. This was anti-democratic behaviour at its worst.

We already know how much disdain The Labour Party has for the general public and the democratic process, from episodes like the Falkirk Scandal and the illegal wars it started in Iraq and Afghanistan in the face of overwhelming public opposition.

However, this represents a new low for the Liberal Democrats, for whom an EU Referendum was actually a Manifesto Promise at the last election.

Not that this will make the slightest difference – even if the EU Referendum Billis eventually passed, a vote under a Cameron Government will be tremendously skewed by the fact that he has already given away his main bargaining chip, appointed an EU Aficionado (Ivan Rogers) to negotiate on behalf of the UK, and the millions of pounds of our money that will be pumped into a huge publicity campaign for the pro-EU lobby.

The only answer for anyone who believes that the public of the United Kingdom should be given a fair say over this very important matter is to elect a UKIP MP at the next election.

Cllr. Stuart Hutton, UKIP Crewe and Nantwich.