Blame yourself if you don't vote
With reference to the letter from David Jackson – while I agree with his comments about the European Constitution, which Gordon Brown is trying desperately to pass off as the Lisbon Treaty, the fault lies with those who profess to have no faith in any of the three main political parties and refuse to vote.
With reference to the letter from David Jackson – while I agree with his comments about the European Constitution, which Gordon Brown is trying desperately to pass off as the Lisbon Treaty, the fault lies with those who profess to have no faith in any of the three main political parties and refuse to vote.
I can sympathise with these people to a certain extent, but their apathetic stance is what gives this government the liberty to impose their ideas upon the majority of people in this country who want a referendum.
I feel none of the three main parties can offer me freedom of speech and the choice of being governed by democratically elected MPs. The public is being denied the right to voice their opinions on Europe in general and the Constitution in particular.
We have been lied to by successive governments about the benefits of being members. What benefits? We are being well and truly taxed up to the hilt to pay for other countries to reap the benefit.
Edward Heath promised us faithfully that the Common Market as it was then was merely a trade agreement. Some trade agreement! We can't even deport terrorists from the country now because of this so-called trade agreement. We must consider their human rights and our own rights do not figure in the equation.
Yet our MPs cannot understand why we hold them in such contempt, especially the three representing Wolverhampton, who all toed the party line and voted as they were told to.
I suggest those people who refuse to vote because they feel that no party represents their views, do the same as I do, and vote for another party, and then politicians would have to listen to us.
There is no reason why you cannot vote for UKIP, a party committed to taking this country out of Europe completely. With enough MPs from a party like that in Parliament, the other parties would have to sit up and take notice.
If you prefer to sit at home and not vote, then you truly deserve to be represented by the politicians you now have, who appear to be both deaf and blind.
J D Higgs, Lavender Close, Pendeford Rise, Wolverhampton.
