Sentences with phrase «referendum was on offer»

He says the British people would be given a «false choice» if an in - or - out referendum was on offer now.

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When it came to that last question, there was plenty of anger to go around, with many complaining about David Cameron's decision to call the referendum, others infuriated at the weak Leave campaign, and still others offering less than polite commentary on segments of their fellow citizens.

Tsipras is campaigning for a no vote in the referendum on Sunday, which is officially on whether to accept a tough earlier bailout offer, to impress on EU negotiators that spiralling poverty and a collapse in everyday business activity across Greece has meant further austerity should be ruled out of any new rescue package.

Greek banks are closed all week after news broke that the country will be holding a referendum vote on whether to accept the bailout measures offered by international creditors.

Incumbent trustees Andy Stein, Beverly Sussman and Lester Ottenheimer along with write - in candidate Jeffrey Battinus have been invited to participate in the forum from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at the Village Bar & Grill, 48 Raupp Blvd.. The four, who are vying for three seats, will each have 20 minutes to offer a biography and explanation on why they are seeking office, their opinions on opportunities and challenges facing the village, their perspective on the downtown plan and whether they would support a communitywide referendum question on the plan.

The competition is designed to engage an audience who may not be particularly interested in the EU referendum debate, with the amount on offer designed to reflect the UK's gross daily contributions to the EU budget.

Clegg also revealed that he made an offer to hold a referendum on Lords reform at the time of the next general election but the offer was not accepted.

He offers a significant concession, though: a potential referendum on the reforms, but only after the first tranche of peers has been secured.

Of the 19 times a referendum on an EU treaty has been offered (not counting the 3 times a second referendum has been held following an initial rejection) the treaty has passed eight times, been rejected five times and the referendum cancelled six times.

Clegg claimed on Monday that Lords reform was the Tory offering in exchange for Liberal Democrat support over the constituency boundaries review, but Cameron is now insisting the actual deal was over the AV referendum.

Until that day I will continue to vote for any party that offers a Referendum on Lisbon and hopefully the end of Englands occupation by this degenerate bloated gravy train for has been politicians.

As for Europe, Miliband is clearly determined not to offer a referendum on EU membership, though he promises to work to reform the EU.

For example they talk about far - reaching political reforms, but all they're offering is a referendum on AV, which would go nowhere near far enough.

It was widely understood at the time that Labour were prepared to legislate to secure a shift from the first - past - the - post system to alternative vote, while offering a referendum on a shift to proportional representation.

Quite apart from the fact that proportional representation is * fair *, and therefore a far better starting point for a Parliament that is responsive to the will of the people, the difference between Caroline and most Labour or Conservative MPs is that she is trying to ensure that a referendum on voting reform actually offers a meaningful choice.

So if Labour offered the Lib Dems a convention followed by a referendum on the convebtion's proposal I'd be happy with that - I wouldn't then see Labour as responsible for failing to effect a coalition.

- Certainly my view is that Labour should offer and advocate legislation and a referendum on AV + and expect its MPs to back that as a confidence measure, and that the government and party leadership would advocate a yes (with a small number of rebels no doubt on the no side in the referendum itself).

A referendum on the Alternative Vote was the most extraordinary of many surprising parts of David Cameron's «big, open and comprehensive offer» to the Liberal Democrats.

Brexit Smith was a Remain campaigner and after the vote to leave he pledged that he would offer a further referendum on the final «Brexit» deal if voted Labour leader.

British Future argues, in a publication to be released this autumn focusing on public attitudes to immigration, that offering an in / out EU referendum is a prerequisite for any party that wants to be trusted on the issue.

The spokesman said the prime minister was not considering offering a referendum on Lords reform.

The Conservatives will only offer a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty if it has not been ratified by the next general election.

And he told Andrew Neil on BBC2's Daily Politics: «We are the people who are going to offer a referendum.»

This was offered to them as part of the bargaining process that created the current coalition government, but it was a referendum on the Alternative Vote (AV) rather than full PR.

Had he walked away from the table against an inadequate deal on offer, he'd have a close - to - united party behind him and would be looking at a comfortable referendum win.

Corbyn claimed that the exchanges showed that Surrey had been offered a special deal to call off its planned referendum on a 15 % increase in council tax.

The Conservatives have bitten the bullet of offering the Liberal Democrats a referendum on the alternative vote system and that will clearly be their final offer on voting reform.

The country's first Green MP is asking the leadership candidates to support her amendment to the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill so as to offer a PR option on the ballot paper in the forthcoming referendum.

In recent months there has been a focus on the threat to Labour from UKIP but the rise of the party was such a problem for the Conservatives that David Cameron felt compelled to offer an EU referendum.

Rumours over Tony Blair's EU presidency continue to dominate conversation in Westminster, and a Czech court decision today may result in the Tories being denied their chance to offer Britain a referendum on the Lisbon treaty.

They were late and while we waited, rumours - later confirmed - reached us that the Conservatives were to make a new offer to us to hold a whipped vote in the Commons on an AV referendum, in return for a full coalition.

However the Conservatives insisted that the furthest they could go was to consider offering a free vote in the House of Commons on a referendum on AV.

The big issue is whether the Conservatives needed to offer Nick Clegg a referendum on the AV voting system.

They weren't even offering a firm commitment to pull a three line whip on their existing manifesto commitment for a referendum on AV.

He's a bit unclear as to whether what happened was that the Lib Dems proposed the AV - without - referendum idea to Labour but was then rejected, or whether Gordon Brown offered this privately but then withdrew the offer well before the Conservatives made their counter-offer (a referendum on AV).

If there had been any suggestion of Labour making some kind of grandiose offer of AV without a referendum, it was almost certainly an empty one on the basis that they would not have been able to deliver.

Given this didn't happen, and that neither the Tories nor Labour seemed willing to offer anything other than a referendum on AV, we are where we are and we need to make a choice between AV and FPTP.

Owen Smith has broken ranks with Jeremy Corbyn to reopen the question of whether Brexit is «the right choice for the country», and urge Labour to offer the public a referendum on the final deal.

Either way, he seems pretty confident that Cameron was not correct when he told MPs that Labour had an offer of AV without referendum on the table when the Conservative referendum offer was made.

If they had been well ahead there would have been no offer of a referendum on the Alternative Vote.

I believe it... unlike Baroness Warsi (the Tory panellist) we will offer a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty even if all the countries have ratified it... we mean what we say and at a time when we are fighting illegal wars and have politicians with their fingers in the till it's about time a party spoke up honestly for the hard working decent British people».

Some MPs asked the Tory leader about how the coalition would work and whether it was wise to offer the Lib Dems a referendum on the Alternative Vote system.

It can't happen on a technical basis because we do not allow joint candidates to stand... It's not going to happen because we're the Conservative party; we are the best chance to offer an in / out referendum, the only chance.

However, as a result of the rise of the party, its victory in the earlier European Elections in the UK, and the threat of it taking a large number of seats in 2015, the Government of the day offered a referendum on EU membership... and as a result, UKIP is a fair part of the way towards achieving its aim, even though that governing party from previous AND current Prime Minster down do not want to leave the EU.

I haven't see Labour proposing to ditch ID cards, or freeze council tax, or offer a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, but those are hard Tory policies

Michael, I clearly remember that, during the negotiations in the week following the election, the news media were clearly reporting THEN that Labour were offering the Lib Dems a bill through Parliament to introduce AV, with a referendum on further changes to introduce PR.

In the 2010 manifesto, Labour promised a referendum on a pure AV system, which had been rejected by the Jenkins commission due to it not offering broad proportionality.

The protest outside the Lib Dem meeting played an important role in putting voting reform squarely on the agenda, ensuring we have a referendum on the voting system, rather than just an investigative «commission» as the Conservatives were initially offering.

The cross-party Smith commission was set up after Scotland voted no to independence in the referendum in September, to agree on further powers offered by the Westminster parties in advance of the vote.

The idea of a referendum now would really be offering people two unacceptable choices - stay in Europe, with everything as it is now, or leave altogether and give up on Britain's trading relationships.