EU Referendum Bill rises againThe Conservative party’s attempt to force an EU Referendum in 2017 onto the statute book is back in the guise of Bob Neill’s Private Member’s Bill (remember James Wharton’s bill was killed of by the Lords ba…
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Which century do the Lords think they live in?So the assembled House of Quangocrats (sorry, we couldn’t help it), former MPs, diplomats and political hacks otherwise known as the House of Lords has voted to put an end to the Conservative’s EU Referendu…
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December 20, 2013
Is David Cameron preparing to go nuclear?The Telegraph reported yesterday that David Cameron has told his MPs that he will use the Parliament Act to force through James Wharton’s Private members Bill for an EU Referendum? Inevitably described as h…
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