Sentences with phrase «without referendum»

We were concerned that the government might be intending to pre-judge or pre-empt the decision of the court by ratifying the treaty while the lawfulness of doing so without a referendum was still in issue before the court.

Given the Liberal government's intention to make fundamental changes to our democracy without a referendum, his comments might be better regarded as indicia of a despot.

They draw also on the European Union Act 2011, Pt I of which precludes the executive from ratifying any treaty which amends or replaces the EU Treaties without both a referendum and an act of parliament permitting it.

The federal Liberal government's stated intention to bring about electoral «reform» without a referendum brings to mind Lord Acton's famous dictum: «Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.»

We have found nothing in the claimant's case to cast doubt on the lawfulness of ratifying the Lisbon Treaty without a referendum.

(In due course it was of course taken down without any referendum — or hysterical protest.)

Under revenue limits, these districts can not raise property taxes without referendum approval so they must transfer funds from their regular education budget to special education to cover the shortfall.

In 1993, the Legislature imposed revenue caps on school districts, which limited the amount of money the districts could spend and raise through local property taxes without a referendum.

Tell them that you don't want fundamental changes to our current contract and evaluation system without a referendum.

We are having this referendum for the one and only reason that the Lib Dems demanded it - and to Gordon Brown he demanded it without a referendum!

In his recent memoirs Peter Mandelson also reveals that the Lib Dems» negotiator, Danny Alexander tried to get Labour to agree to AV without a referendum.

So to answer your earlier question of where did the story of Labour offering AV without a referendum come from: it seems to have come from Labour sources, via the BBC.

It now seems almost certain that Labour did NOT promise the Lib Dems voting reform without a referendum.

«Nobody thought you could go to the country and say we're now going to have AV without a referendum,» the senior Labour figure says.

«But at no point,» says my source, «was it ever countenanced that we could do it [AV] without a referendum.

A senior Labour source close to the coalition negotiations has just contacted me to suggest where the «AV without a referendum» story may have originated.

And should that party then go on to win a General Election we will leave the EU without any referendum because the electorate will have voted for it at that General Election.

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.

There's one other intriguing possibility - which some Labour people suspect may have happened - that in a desperate moment Gordon Brown privately offered Lib Dems AV without an referendum, but failed to tell Jack Straw or any of his other colleagues or the Labour negotiators about his offer.

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.

There's no evidence that Labour ever offered the Lib Dems AV without a referendum.

Dr Julian Lewis: Will the right hon. Gentleman [Jack Straw] confirm that in the course of the competitive negotiations with the Liberal Democrats as to which side was going to form a Government, his party offered the Liberal Democrats a deal whereby AV would be rammed through this House without a referendum?

He will have heard the answer that the right hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr Straw) gave when I asked him whether it had been the case that the outgoing Labour Prime Minister had offered, during the coalition negotiations, to ram through the alternative vote without a referendum.

His argument was that they had to do something to catch up with Labour's offer to the Lib Dems of AV without a referendum.

Oh no, Hague told me, he understood that Labour was now offering the Lib Dems AV WITHOUT a referendum.

The Labour Party campaigned in the 1983 general election on a commitment to withdraw from the EC without a referendum [29] although after a heavy defeat Labour changed its policy.

2 At this late stage (Tuesday 10 May), the Lib Dems were still demanding the introduction of AV without a referendum.

[29] In 1985 the Thatcher government ratified the Single European Act — the first major revision to the Treaty of Rome — without a referendum.

PM's resignation and voting reform without referendum would have been price of Lib - Lab coalition, Lord Mandelson reveals

There is nothing in principle to prevent the government changing the voting system without a referendum but, after the precedent of 2011, that would risk popular opprobrium.

«There are no circumstances in which I would have voted for a change to the alternative voting system without a referendum.

And I had, I think, good reason to be certain... A number of people had told me what was - what they thought was - going on, and conversations that were taking place about AV without a referendum.»

«I'd had a conversation with Nick when I'd argued very vigorously that you couldn't do alternative vote without a referendum - it would be wrong,» Mr Cameron says.

Labour flatly refused to introduce AV without a referendum, saying it would be illegitimate.

It's frankly outrageous that Osborne has opened the door to devolve tax raising powers to Wales without a referendum for the people.

When Mr. Bloomberg wanted term limits lifted, she tossed aside previous promises and rammed the measure through without a referendum.

That is, in theory a future parliament might pass an act requiring ratification without a referendum (albeit with political costs).

«We cheered him to the rafters... I think he's toughened up his position on the EU after the Lisbon Treaty went through without a referendum.»

In addition, the document reveals that even at this late stage (Monday 10 May) the Lib Dems were still demanding the introduction of the Alternative Vote without a referendum.

He promises: «The next Labour government will legislate for a new lock — there would be no transfer of powers from the UK to the EU without a referendum on our continued membership of the EU.»

Either way, recalling how recently Miliband, Balls, Alexander et al forced the European ConstitutionLisbon Treaty on the British people without the referendum they had promised, I find it difficult to subscribe to the idea that they and their Labour colleagues are suddenly all now committed eurosceptics.

- Though I can not see that AV without a referendum could be asked, offered or delivered.

Brown promised him without a referendum Proportional Representation.

A unilateral decision to exit without referendum would be the nuclear response to your proposal.

«I had a number of people [who] had told me... what they thought was going on and conversations that were taking place about AV without a referendum.»

The WCC however, in their wisdom, decided to bid for unitary status without a referendum throughout the whole of Wiltshire, including all the residents, or all ratepayers or businesses.

But then he needs to appreciate that some of the issues on which the 2010 — 15 Tory rebels defied the whip were rooted in 2010 manifesto pledges, a document that included the words, «We will ensure that by law no future government can hand over areas of power to the EU or join the Euro without a referendum of the British people.»

There is, or until last week was, the option (in principle) of Parliament simply legislating a change to AV without any referendum.

Since 2007, councils can adopt the elected mayoral model without a referendum.

David Cameron has denied misleading Conservative MPs during coalition talks with the Liberal Democrats, insisting he did not tell them Labour was offering Nick Clegg's party electoral reform without a referendum.