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Originally Posted by Angua
Deliberate avoidance by the government. A referendum will only happen in 2017 if the Tories are re-elected in 2015. 
Meanwhile the offer may take some support from UKIP, whilst being fully aware Labour (who may well win in 2015) will not allow a referendum.
Sadly papers such as the Daily Wail will continue to confuse, obfuscate and mislead over all the different aspects of Europe to generate more jingoistic anti Europe feeling. |
It's all too easy to blame the Daily Mail. There are a lot of perfectly sound and intelligent reasons to be ambivalent towards the European Union - you could do worse than to read Daniel Hannan MEP, who writes regularly in the Telegraph. He's a thoughtful and intelligent writer and an advocate of full withdrawal, in the absence of any truly radical loosening of the EU.
Years of stories about the shape of bananas and the reclassification of chocolate didn't bring us to where we are today. The public mood has shifted because it is becoming clear that the long-term economic and social policies of the EU are infringing on our national sovereignty. In that regard, it is finally becoming clear to everyone, and not just the political anoraks, that this organisation is not, was never, and was never intended to be, merely a "common market".