Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 19 February 2008.
Jim Murphy
Minister of State (Europe)
2:30,
19 February 2008
Far from it. The fact is that only one country across the EU is having a referendum: our good friends in Ireland. The hon. Gentleman quotes from Saturday's Financial Times. I thought he was going to quote his colleague, MEP Caroline Jackson, in yesterday's Financial Times, who described his party's policy as "a hopeless quest" and said that the party was developing
"a bad reputation...for crass and offensive behaviour", and she went on to describe his party's European policy as a "patch of poisonous fungus". The truth is that the Conservative party is more obsessed about, and isolated on, Europe now than at any time in modern history.
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Richard Dixon
Posted on 20 Feb 2008 5:13 pm (Report this annotation)
Mr Murphy obviously does think we are stupid if he is prepared to trot out rubbish like this "The Conservative party is more obsessed about etc etc." The truth is that the government will not yield to the request for a referendum because they know they would lose.