Press Release - 26th February 2008

Global Vision fully supports the mass lobby of Parliament, organised for 27 February 2008, which calls for a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. The lobby is organised by the Democracy Movement, with the Trade Unionists Against the EU Constitution and the I Want a Referendum campaign.

Ruth Lea, Global Vision's Director, will be speaking at the associated public meeting in Westminster Central Hall in the afternoon of 27 February. 

She will be saying:

"The Lisbon Treaty, which is currently being rammed through the Commons, represents an awesome transfer of power from EU Member States national parliaments to the centralised institutions of the EU. It is, therefore, of huge significance for Britain. This is despite the Government's so-called ‘red lines' on the Charter of Fundamental Rights, Foreign and Defence Policy and Police and Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters which, the Government claims, will preserve Britain's national interests. The truth is that the "red lines" are unlikely to be effective in protecting the UK from EU intervention."

"In its 2005 election manifesto the Labour Party promised the British people a referendum on the Constitutional Treaty, the powers of which are all but replicated in the Lisbon Treaty. Gordon Brown should not renege on his Party's promise. Given the overwhelming importance of the Treaty, the British people should be allowed to express their view on the issues at stake. All our polling shows that an overwhelming majority of the British people feel the same."