News: UK PM calls for EU independence referendum before 2017.

Jack!

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David Cameron raised the prospect of an early referendum on European Union membership as he launched a diplomatic whirlwind to renegotiate Britain’s place in the EU.

He told other European leaders he had a fresh mandate following his general election victory to win back powers from Brussels to London as he fired the opening shots of what is bound to be a long and tortuous process.

Speaking at the end of an EU summit in the Latvian capital Riga, he said: “I want to make early progress. The sooner we get on with this, the better.”

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But he said: “We need to address the concerns of the British people. They are not happy with the status quo. Frankly nor am I.”

The Prime Minister listed his main concerns as action to stem the tide of EU migrants to Britain by bringing in “commonsense restrictions” on their entitlement to benefits, scrapping “unnecessary and burdensome” rules from Brussels and worries that the UK was “being driven towards an ever closer union”.

He is committed to staging a membership referendum by the end of 2017, but aides say he wants to keep open the option of staging it earlier to end uncertainty over the question of Europe.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-10270619.html

Brits: Will you be voting yes or no?
Europeans: Do you want the United Kingdom out of the EU?

Discuss.

monsterLd

Tbh I really haven't a clue if we would be better off in the EU or not. I just want the EU to work on controlling their god damn illegal immigrants better rather than shipping them off over to an already overpopulated island

Haburo

This is so annoying. Kick them out TBH

BGXKB

Well, Britain could benefit from leaving the Union, but such isolationist practices undermine the entire point of the Union when the most powerful nation decides to leave.
The EU is a victory for diplomacy, world economics, and global politics. Of course, this is the Conservative party leader speaking about leaving the Union, so no surprises really.

Badger

It's a ****ing ego trip. **** you Cameron sweaty box faced ponce

bluth

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Originally posted by monsterLd

Tbh I really haven't a clue if we would be better off in the EU or not. I just want the EU to work on controlling their god damn illegal immigrants better rather than shipping them off over to an already overpopulated island

um, well the whole idea of 'illegal immigrants' is that both their own government and the government of the country to which they move have no idea and/or control over their immigration

princedonte

Schhh

Europe doesn't claim UK anyway.

bluth

and idk, i haven't seen anything which has convinced me that we should leave. people say things about trade and whatever, but a bigger threat right now is ttip which is being brushed under the carpet in favour of this

that G.U.Y.

Ready for Germany to take over tbh

RihannasVeryOwn

We won't be able to tell if we should leave or not till they open up the books, this whole economic migrants thing is so weak and not a good enough reason

Ash12345

I think that sounds fair tbh

Jicky

Let the UK get out. Let them have their Australian Indian and Afghan immigrants. The numbers won't change only the mixture. What the EU demands from the UK used to be pocket money and still is pocket money in comparison what he UK makes on immigrants.

brndksk

The UK isn't going anywhere. The majority of Brits are already in favour of the EU, and that's before all of the corporations have even started with their scaremongering.

Bring on the European federation.

brndksk

Just look: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propose...pinion_polling

It will be like the Scottish referendum but on steroids. Nigel Farage will resign as UKIP leader the day after and Queen Suzanne Evans' reign will begin.

Dizzy

I'd vote yes, let's leave. Will change immigration for the better.

Europeans (mainly Eastern) apparently don't want us in the EU. Well then, bye bye, don't come over to our country and ruin it.

Javan

That's fine. The answer is till gonna be no.

brndksk

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Originally posted by Dizzy

I'd vote yes, let's leave. Will change immigration for the better.

Europeans (mainly Eastern) apparently don't want us in the EU. Well then, bye bye, don't come over to our country and ruin it.

ATRL was the last place I expected to find this sort of attitude.

MonsterPaw

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Originally posted by Dizzy

I'd vote yes, let's leave. Will change immigration for the better.

Europeans (mainly Eastern) apparently don't want us in the EU. Well then, bye bye, don't come over to our country and ruin it.

I'm here for a Western Union together with the UK (and Sweden, The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Austria, Switzerland and all the other western countries). There are way to many different cultures in this Union, that will just lead to more conflicts. One of these conflicts is the situation with Russia. Russia needs to leave us alone and we should leave them alone.

It's definitely Angela's (and her christian party) fault that we have so many racist people in our country right now. This whole EU thing is getting out of control. Scary. But I'm not a politician, what do I know

Dizzy

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Originally posted by MonsterPaw

I'm here for a Western Union together with the UK (and Sweden, The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Austria, Switzerland and all the other western countries). There are way to many different cultures in this Union, that will just lead to more conflicts. One of these conflicts is the situation with Russia. Russia needs to leave us alone and we should leave them alone.

It's definitely Angela's (and her christian party) fault that we have so many racist people in our country right now. This whole EU thing is getting out of control. Scary. But I'm not a politician, what do I know

A Western Union would be good, let's be honest, West and East Europe clearly don't like each other. Russia controls Eastern Europe.