Bill Cash published today a paper, which contains the basis for a new positive relationship between the European nations.
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Bill Cash wrote, “If the UK ends up in a pre-referendum position with relatively minor concessions, the other European countries led by Germany, judging from past experience, will simply go ahead as the 25 of the 27 Member States did with the fiscal compact, despite David Cameron’s refusal to accept it. This would be done either by Treaty or if not, by a new kind of enhanced cooperation. If we veto the new proposed Treaty and they still go ahead, this would merely confirm that we could not possibly be part of such a system."
He stressed, "This is not blackmail – it is democratic common sense. It is about freedom and democracy – and the right of the United Kingdom Parliament to make own laws in line with the wishes of the voters, as decided in General Elections."
According to Bill Cash, "What we need now is a referendum before the negotiations calling for our relationship with Europe to be based on trade and political cooperation, not European government. We would insist on the retention of our Westminster sovereignty, supported by what the cascade of opinion polls in recent years have demonstrated and what the British people clearly want."
