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“If there are further steps to European integration, the people should have their say at a general election or in a referendum.

“Tony Blair, In 1997

The unification of Europe is near”
Laeken Declaration, 15 December 2001,

“The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (ECR) will be no more binding than the Beano or the Sun”.

Keith Vaz, Labour Minister for Europe,

“The Europe of Maastricht could only have been created in the absence of democracy.”

Claude Cheysson, French Foreign Secretary 1981-1984.

“There are some in this country who fear that in going into Europe, we shall in some way sacrifice independence and sovereignty. These fears I need hardly say are completely unjustified”

Ted Heath,

“No government dependent upon a democratic vote could possibly agree in advance to the sacrifice that any adequate plan [to build the EU] must involve. The people must be led slowly and unconsciously into their abandonment of their traditional economic defences…”

Lord (Peter) Thorneycroft,

“I have never understood why public opinion about European ideas should be taken into account.”
Raymond Barre, Mayor of Lyons and French Prime Minister