All this for £20,800,000 every day! (Source The Democracy Movement)

Sir James Goldsmith gave the people of this country their opportunity in 1997 and driven by party loyalties, with the exception of around one million, they didn't rise to the occasion so they deserve their fate in the EU.

Why would Parliament be realistic about membership when there are so many job and pension opportunities for those who fail to get elected by the people of this country and after a spell there get a seat in the House of Lords.

It sucks!

John

I do not doubt your sincerity and know you are onside that is why you remain on the back benches.

Nick Clegg should be reminded that in the not the constitution/Lisbon Treaty debacle he and his party were in favour of a vote on our continued membership of theEU and would argue there corner to that end. Some hopes of that now of course but it has more relevance to the wishes of the people of this country than the proposed referendum on AV?

I am 70, heeded Enoch Powell's and others warnings in the mid 1960's and I was against membership then and still am. Had the political classes not lost their bottle after the Suez war a better option would have been to remain in EFTA and develop trade links with rather than turn our backs on the Commonwealth.

I did not vote in the last general election, the local Conservative candidate did not even answer my posts on the question of where he stood on the EU.

Parliament is little more than a monkey pen with Brussels pulling the strings and I cannot understand why erudite people like you still bother because on EU membership it is not going to change.

Had there been the threat of a communist government in the 1960's the force's of the Crown would have marched in there and taken it over and put an end to it? That's what it will now take to get this country out of the EU?