Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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1 February 2011
16:3791007What is the Pledge. Well i will tell you.
The aim of the EU Referendum Pledge is to give the British people the opportunity to decide in a referendum whether Britain remains a member of the European Union or establishes a new type of relationship.
Who is behind the Pledge,coming from me you will be thinking it is UKIP.Sorry"Wrong"
Our campaign is made up of thousands of people drawn from all walks of life,different backgrounds and who support a variety of democratic political parties.
We are united by a belief that the British people must be consulted directly about Britain,s relationship with the E.U, the most important political question of our time.
You can log into EUPLEDGE.COM
The simplest way for you to support this call for this vital EU Referendum is to add your name to the thousands already signed up. do this by visit
www. eupledge.com and add your name yourself.
Please do it today. Thank you.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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1 February 2011
16:5891009I certainly would support such a referendum but the timing must be right. My concern is that if the timing was wrong the yes vote would scrape it and we would be lumbered deeping in the EU poo than ever.
Perhaps the timing is right. Read this for a Conservatuve view on this.
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2011/02/four-conservative-mps-present-373000-calls-to-leave-the-eu-to-david-cameron.htmlGuest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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1 February 2011
20:0691051Sounds eminently sensible to me.
Roger
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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1 February 2011
20:4891061Vic, I signed that pledge early in 2010 online on the UKIP website, almost a year ago.
Last December I had a request from UKIP heaf-office to deliver leaflets for the pledge, but the campaign was later called off. The UKIP head-office informed me that I would have been the only person in Dover delivering leaflets, as only I had volunteered to distribute them here.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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1 February 2011
21:1391064when i saw the thread title i thought it was about giving up drinking.
sounds like the "eupledge" has not taken off locally.
Brian Dixon
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1 February 2011
21:1791065howard,i dont think it will,unless you are a day dreamer.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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1 February 2011
21:2591067All I can tell you is I first saw this at the dinner on Monday.I have never been asked to take them around from door to door. The campaign has never been called off and as i said please go to their webb side and sigh it,I would just like to point out that I am the chairman of UKIP in Dover and I have avery good working branch,if you read anything that is not from us then it comes from outside the branch,so I would know nothing about it.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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1 February 2011
21:2991069vic,i do despair at these fantacys of yours.as i have said it will never happen,the referendem that is.probly be a fully paid up member before it happens.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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1 February 2011
21:3391071Time will tell on that one but in the end the public will get one.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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1 February 2011
21:3791073vic,a referendem has been on the cards for at least 20 years spaning 3 goverments,still no referendum.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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1 February 2011
21:3991075There has never been such a strong call by the public and MPs for a Referendem as it is right now.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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1 February 2011
21:4291076vic,since when.if what you say is true the goverment and relivant bodys are keering it very quite.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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1 February 2011
22:2791083If you go now to the House of commons live right now they are voting again on the EU referendum yes to stay in or no to come out but also they are voting in a clause 11 .I must point out this was at committee stage and Clause11 was voted in by 295 to 65 so I think that means now that it goes forward to the full house of commons to see if the public will at long last get the referendum. I wait to see what Barry has to say about it ,I might have got it wrong.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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1 February 2011
23:0991089The pledge campaign of UKIP to leave the EU has not been called off, but it seems that the distribution of leaflets campaign has been called off, which is what I was refering to above.
I had received an email in early December from Mr Nuttall MEP to disitribute the leaflets, on the grounds that I had signed the UKIP petition for Britain to leave the EU in early 2010.
I recently received another email from the UKIP Pledge office to ask more people to sign the pledge. I have received several of them over the past few months. I sent Vic a copy of the Pledge by email in early December 2010, using the standard copy that the UKIP Pledge office had sent me together with the request to send a copy by email to any people I may know who might be interested in signing it and then forwarding it with their address and signature back to the UKIP Pledge office.
So Vic got his copy nearly two months ago.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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2 February 2011
01:2391106Vic, when I saw your name under The Pledge I thought you had given up Coca-Cola!
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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2 February 2011
10:2691122Well said Peter,and you are right you what I drink now I am back on the hard stuff.
Jan Higgins
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2 February 2011
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Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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2 February 2011
11:4891147Jan
You are right this post should be on the UKIP thread but Vic has probably noticed that a lot of us no longer read the UKIP diatribe so he has to seek publicity elsewhere.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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2 February 2011
14:0891159I did say frm my first post on the Pledge, this had nothing to do with UKIP just that we support it,again Marek and not for the first time you do not read the wording of my post,s ,I do not care if you read them or not ,but if you do please try and get it right. Thank you.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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2 February 2011
14:1791161The pledge for an EU referendum is a UKIP campaign. I got the first email from the UKIP Pledge for an EU referendum head quarters on 14 November 2010. This morning I checkedmy email box, so I know!
