Voters urged to write to their MP over UK’s EU membership
The Telford & Wrekin branch of UKIP is urging voters in the borough to write to their MP before it's too late to demand a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU.
MPs are due to vote on a motion triggered by a 100,000 signature petition calling for a referendum on whether the UK should remain a member on current terms, renegotiate its membership of the EU or whether to leave on Monday. The vote was originally scheduled for Thursday but has been brought forward to prevent MPs being pressured into rebelling against their parties by their constituents.
Labour, Lib Dems and Conservative MPs have all been instructed by their leaders to vote against a referendum and David Cameron is actively campaigning against it, even considering the use of a "three line whip", where MPs are threatened with sanctions if they don't ignore their constituents and do what their party wants.
UKIP parish councillor for Brookside, Stuart Parr, said "Nobody under the age of 56 has been allowed to vote on what is now the EU and for David Cameron to suggest (as he did a few weeks ago) that we shouldn't have a referendum now because we had one in 1975 is insulting. We have a democratic right to vote on who runs our country and it's not for career politicians to deny us that right".
