tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post2021222136784778317..comments2024-03-27T06:56:10.255+00:00Comments on Broad Oak Magazine: The Westminster rainbow, and an apologyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-26492226777054873262014-04-18T09:23:42.274+01:002014-04-18T09:23:42.274+01:00I wish for it to happen but there is no point unle...I wish for it to happen but there is no point unless we get a wide range of views and an agreement to listen to each other. It may be that C is an exception in which case I should welcome any assistance in canvassing support for a meeting to discuss the aguments for/against a referendum - not the endless arguments about the merits/demerits of the EU.<br /><br />Tony Benn's 20 May 1993 speech in the Maastricht debate raises a serious legal question and I think it has to be answered:<br /><br />"... not one hon. Member has the legal or moral authority to hand over the powers that they borrowed from their electors last April to people who will not be accountable to those whom we now represent."<br /><br />Note the use of the word "legal". Tony Benn was a Privy Councillor, an MP for 41 years (or was it 43?) at that point, and NOT (as his speech makes clear) concerned with British sovereignty, which he regarded as irrelevant, but with the political rights of the people as exercised by their votes in electing MPs.<br /><br />Surely this has to be answered.<br /><br />Would you help in making such a gathering? I could re-book the room.Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17284329249862764601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-69199032527439195292014-04-18T09:06:11.649+01:002014-04-18T09:06:11.649+01:00So where are we actually, at this stage, Sackers? ...So where are we actually, at this stage, Sackers? Is it happening?James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.com