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"en.20121025.36.4-568-000"2
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"Madam President, it is hard to keep up with the UK at the moment, is it not? The Foreign Secretary, in a speech in Berlin this week, said the EU should look to decentralise. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister admitted to the House of Commons that in order for banking union to succeed, the euro zone would need to federalise.
After shedding his cast-iron guarantee of a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, David Cameron guaranteed a referendum on any new EU Treaty drawn up. So now Mr Barroso has called for a new treaty creating a democratic federation of nation states, one would assume that the British people will get to vote on something that would barely include the UK at all.
What would Cameron’s mythical referendum be, and when would it take place? He knows UKIP is set to come out on top in the next European elections. Why not give Britain the ‘in’ or ‘out’ vote before 2014? If Europe wants to federalise, but is finding Britain staggering about in a state of confusion, messing things up, then perhaps the EU should start seriously debating a UK exit."@en1
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