Time for a referendum on EU treaty

The Green Party voted at our recent conference to back union calls for a referendum on the UK’s future relationship with the EU. Sign up to 'I want a Referendum' here and read local Green party letter here.

The proposed EU Reform Treaty is substantially the same document as the EU Constitution, on which Tony Blair promised the British people a referendum. But now Gordon Brown wants to deny us a say on whether to adopt it or not – whatever you think about the rights or wrongs of the treaty that’s fundamentally undemocratic. As Colin Moses, from the Prison Officers Association, said recently: "We have had a belly full of broken promises and what we have here is another broken promise”.