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Yet more Euro wrangles mean we must let the people have their say

Several journalists have asked me what I think of the news that the European Court of Justice might preside over the new European Fiscal Union (FU). 

Part of me wonders if it might not actually be a good thing.  If the FU becomes a kind of spin off from the EU, and crucially, does not involve us, the why oppose it? The FU could then take the Euro institutions with it, and be the main fulcrum for European integration – minus Britain. What would there be not to like?

We would find ourselves in a dead husk of the EU, making it much easier to then extricate ourselves entirely.

On the other hand, if the new FU rules are wrapped up in to the EU by 2017 – as some suggest - it would be a disaster. The veto would have proved worthless, and in effect we would have a new arrangement with the Eurosystem without having had a referendum.

But the key point in all this is not what I think. Nor what other MPs think. Nor, despite the way the BBC insists on covering the story, is this about the Tory party.

What matters is what millions of British people think. 

Which is why I will be at the People’s Pledge launch this morning helping to pile of the pressure for a referendum. 

Regardless of all these endlessly complicated Euro wrangles in Westminster and Brussels, sooner or later there will have to be a referendum on the EU.  Help make sure there is by joining our campaign today - sign up here.

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