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What happens when you leave Euro deal making to ministers and mandarins

For the past forty years, we have left Europe policy to the politicians. 

Just look at the mess they have made of it: a common fisheries policy that has failed to conserve fish.  Financial regulation suffocating the City.  A large bill to bailout a currency we did not even join.  Talk about deregulation that is only ever talk. 

Now it appears that vetoes  one month unravel the next.

With ministers and mandarins left in charge, we have lurched from one disastrous Euro deal to the next.    

Worse, many of the key decisions that affect our lives are no longer taken by the MPs we elect, but by remote and unaccountable officials in Brussels. 

Over 70 percent of our laws now come from the Brussels machine.  EU regulations are often drawn up in the interests all kinds of corporate lobby groups - but rarely ever in the interests of the British voter. 

It is time for the people to take back control.  We must stand up and demand that the political class give us the EU referendum that all three parties promised us before the last election.    

Today the People’s Pledge are launching the biggest ever all-party ground campaign to give us back control of our country. 

Already the People’s Pledge has almost 100,000 committed supporters.  Whatever your politics, log on to https://www.peoplespledge.org/ now and join our campaign to ensure that those we elect, not the Whitehall mandarins nor the failed Euro elite, decide what is best for Britain.

Over the years, many MPs from all parties have managed to duck the Europe question by pretending that it does not really matter to folk outside Westminster.  Join the People’s Pledge to show all MPs in every party that the question of whether we are a self-governing democracy matters to you - and to many people across the country like you.     

Like everyone else in this country under the age of 55, I have never been given a direct say over Britain’s EU membership.  Even those who were old enough to have voted in the 1975 referendum tell me that they thought they were being asked about a Common Market, not a Euro super state.

For that reason alone, I hope that every MP will welcome the People’s Pledge grass roots campaigning in their constituency.  Please sign the People’s Pledge now.

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