Cameron must move swiftly to back up referendum pledge

SO, David Cameron is wheeling out the old chestnut of a referendum in 2017/2018. We all know what happened before. It will be too late by then as we will be swamped by immigrants, all of whom are coming here for our benefits. The only people who want us in Europe are our MEPs and our turncoat politicians.

From: Dick Lindley, Altofts, Normanton.

CONGRATULATIONS are due to David Cameron for finally telling our unelected rulers in the EU some home truths.

This historic speech will ensure a crushing Conservative victory at the next election as most British people dislike being ruled by foreign governments – irrespective of class or creed.

From: Barbara Stark, Ridgestone Avenue, Bilton.

OH dear. Why am I so suspicious? Does David Cameron think that by promising a referendum in 2018 that he will con the disenchanted voters to still vote for the Conservative Party?

Why wait? We want a referendum now. Odds-on he 
will not win the next election so dodgy Dave can promise whatever he likes.

From: Barrie Frost, Watson’s Lane, Reighton, Filey.

WHY is EU business transferred for one week, each and every month, from Brussels to Strasbourg? The cost of this must be simply staggering.

Would any Europhile answer two very simple questions.

Firstly, why is this continuing?

Secondly, how can anyone have confidence that their monies are wisely spent on other policies, when such nonsense as this occurs?

From: David H Rhodes, Keble Park North, Bishopthorpe, York.

DAVID Cameron’s speech on the reform to the UK’s membership with the EU was fair. His next move must be a prompt statement of what precise amendments he proposes so that the general public can monitor his success or failure with his negotiations.

Time is of the essence as his statement was that an in/out referendum on EU membership will happen in 2017/18, which 
is a period of four to five years hence. This time period allows lethargy to set in and a greater percentage of the voting public will never have known life outside the EU.

From: Robert Craig, Priory Road, Weston-super-Mare.

DAVID Cameron has signalled that he expects Labour to win the next General Election. His promise of an in/out referendum on membership of the European Union depends on the Tories being returned in that election. If they are not returned, there will be no referendum and Cameron will be off the hook.

Cameron has form on this kind of promise, as witnessed by his “cast iron” pledge on the Lisbon Treaty which failed to materialise. The way to hold the Tories to Cameron’s commitment is to vote English Democrat.

From: Tim Mickleburgh, Boulevard Avenue, Grimsby.

I ACTUALLY welcome the proposal for an in/out vote on EU membership. But I’m wary as to what happened back in the mid 1970s. Then Harold Wilson persuaded the public that he’d successfully renegotiated the treaty, when in fact there’d only been a little tinkering at the edges.

And at the referendum campaign we had eight-page booklets from both the No and Yes camps, along with a 16-page pamphlet from the Government also supporting the Yes point of view. So if we are to vote, let it be fair.

From: Terry Palmer, South Lea Avenue, Hoyland, Barnsley.

DAVID Cameron’s speech on the EU finally arrived, but what did it amount to? A promise that we would finally get a vote on 
whether or not to continue backing the Brussels ‘gravy train’ or not. But not yet, of course, because we will have to re-elect this Government for a further five years of misery.