http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15382019
All the parties were in support of a referendum before the last election, now all three are trying to prevent that from occurring.
Why? Well if this goes to a referendum we're leaving: "49% of those polled would vote to leave the EU in a referendum; 25% wanted to stay. 57% believed that being in the EU has been negative, while 32% thought it had been positive", and that's before the inevitable massive negative campaigning as every EU bureaucrat's dirty laundry gets aired in the UK Tabloids.
The three big parties at Westminster have told their MPs to vote against a motion calling for a referendum to be held on UK membership of the EU.
Mr Nuttall's motion calls for a referendum by May 2013 and says the public should have three options put to them in the nationwide vote - keeping the status quo, leaving the EU or reforming the terms of the UK's membership of the European Union.
All the parties were in support of a referendum before the last election, now all three are trying to prevent that from occurring.
Why? Well if this goes to a referendum we're leaving: "49% of those polled would vote to leave the EU in a referendum; 25% wanted to stay. 57% believed that being in the EU has been negative, while 32% thought it had been positive", and that's before the inevitable massive negative campaigning as every EU bureaucrat's dirty laundry gets aired in the UK Tabloids.