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Conservatives will respect the democratic will of the people??
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Conservatives will respect the democratic will of the people??
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December 16th 2019
Open letter to the government of the United Kingdom and prime minister Johnson.
"Above all, we Conservatives will respect the democratic will of the people." (1)
Good.
So, act accordingly in the matter of UK - EU relations.
Recent surveys strongly suggest that many millions of citizens favour having a referendum about a "brexit" deal. That is the "democratic will" of the people, now that we know how "brexit" will look. You know full well that the 2016 referendum was only advisory, a consultation of the British people: Your own attorney general recently affirmed this in the Commons (see Hansard). The number of people supporting another referendum is similar or may exceed the number who voted Conservative in last week's election.
Your manifesto also includes a promise to improve democracy by "devolving power to people and places across the UK" (2). The power of citizens to instigate a binding referendum on any public matter is an important democratic reform supported by around seven out of ten British adults.
So, Mr. Johnson, our highest public servant of the day, et al, either give us a ballot on your brexit deal and/or,
even better,
rapidly push through a law to enable an agreed, reasonably large, number of citizen-electors to obtain a referendum on any public matter, policy or law.
1. The Conservative and Unionist Party Manifesto 2019, page 3.
2. ibid, page 28.
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Copy of letter text
December 16th 2019
Open letter to the government of the United Kingdom and prime minister Johnson.
"Above all, we Conservatives will respect the democratic will of the people." (1)
Good.
So, act accordingly in the matter of UK - EU relations.
Recent surveys strongly suggest that many millions of citizens favour having a referendum about a "brexit" deal. That is the "democratic will" of the people, now that we know how "brexit" will look. You know full well that the 2016 referendum was only advisory, a consultation of the British people: Your own attorney general recently affirmed this in the Commons (see Hansard). The number of people supporting another referendum is similar or may exceed the number who voted Conservative in last week's election.
Your manifesto also includes a promise to improve democracy by "devolving power to people and places across the UK" (2). The power of citizens to instigate a binding referendum on any public matter is an important democratic reform supported by around seven out of ten British adults.
So, Mr. Johnson, our highest public servant of the day, et al, either give us a ballot on your brexit deal and/or,
even better,
rapidly push through a law to enable an agreed, reasonably large, number of citizen-electors to obtain a referendum on any public matter, policy or law.
1. The Conservative and Unionist Party Manifesto 2019, page 3.
2. ibid, page 28.
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Campaign for direct democracy in Britain
Citizens' Initiative and Referendum I&R ~ GB
http://www.iniref.org/ Link to site index
http://www.iniref.org/steps.html Basic presentation
Contact: in...@iniref.org
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