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Monday 29 October 2007

EU Constitution referendum

Early Day Motion 2143 submitted by Bill Cash on 17 October says "That this House notes that the impartial European Scrutiny Committee concluded that the Reform Treaty is substantially equivalent to the original Constitutional Treaty; that the Government Manifesto promised a Referendum on the original treaty; that the Conservative Party voted against it in principle on the Second Reading of the Bill implementing that Treaty; that the Prime Minister said that he will reject the Reform Treaty if the Government's Red Lines are not guaranteed on 18th October, but (following the European Scrutiny Committee examination of the Foreign Secretary on 16th October) that these Red Lines do not satisfy UK vital national interests and that the European Court of Justice will determine these matters, not this House; that, contrary to the statements of the Foreign Secretary, parliamentary democracy is enhanced when this House, as the Labour Government in 1975, hands back a Referendum by Act of Parliament to the voters who elect Members of this House; that 27 million voters have been denied a Referendum on any European Question since 1975; that over 70 per cent. of the voters want a Referendum but that the reasons have to be fully explained; that the Reform Treaty is a consolidation of the existing treaties into a merger of the European Community into a European Union involving substantial, fundamental, constitutional and structural change by the Government's own criteria for a Referendum; and insists that the Prime Minister rejects the Reform Treaty on 18th October and holds a Referendum before or after ratification."

So far 47 MPs have signed the EDM, 46 Conservatives and 1 Democratic Unionist.
The 47 MPs who do believe in democracy are:
Cash, William
Redwood, John
Ancram, Michael
Chope, Christopher
Whittingdale, John
Leigh, Edward
Shepherd, Richard
Spink, Bob
Jenkin, Bernard
Knight, Greg
Liddell-Grainger, Ian
Brady, Graham
Clappison, James
Conway, Derek
Davies, David TC
Duncan Smith, Iain
Fallon, Michael
Field, Mark
Fraser, Christopher
Amess, David
Bacon, Richard
Bottomley, Peter
Tapsell, Peter
Widdecombe, Ann
Winterton, Ann
Winterton, Nicholas
Binley, Brian
Bone, Peter
Carswell, Douglas
Holloway, Adam
Davies, Philip
Dorries, Nadine
Duddridge, James
Dunne, Philip
Hands, Greg
Kawczynski, Daniel
Stuart, Graham
Walker, Charles
Pritchard, Mark
Scott, Lee
Penning, Mike
Baldry, Tony
Crabb, Stephen
Evans, Nigel
Moss, Malcolm
Campbell, Gregory
Wilshire, David

If your MP is not on the above list, ask them why not.

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