John Baron MP: The Twelve Days of the European Union – 1

1 – One Chance to Leave

As we approach the final furlong to the EU referendum, and with the necessary apologies to the ‘Twelve Days of Christmas’, John Baron MP is sharing his ‘Twelve Days of the European Union’, setting out why we should vote to leave on 23rd June. Further daily instalments to follow.

The referendum on 23rd June will the first time in 41 years that the British people have been offered a vote on our EU membership, despite opposition to the referendum from the political establishment over many years. The EU has fundamentally changed in the intervening four decades, and will change again in the coming decades. The referendum is not just about what the EU is now, but also about what it will become as it pursues closer integration.

John said,

“Given we may not get another chance to leave the EU for another 40 years – if at all – I urge people to vote to leave on 23rd June. This is an historic opportunity to free ourselves from the shackles of the EU, an organisation mired in high unemployment and uncompetitiveness, and obsessed with political grands projets, and take control of our country for the benefit of generations to come.”

Quote of the Day:

‘I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe’
(Kenneth Clarke, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1993-97)