Mark Carroll's Journal

It would be a theft of public rights. It is plain wrong to perform that kind of restructuring without a referendum.

I, a voter, have vested power in my MP. In due course, my MP must give that power back. It's not his to consolidate it to a higher level without my permission and a vote for him in a General Election is not permission. (Not that I voted for him, anyway.)

But now, because politicians have abused the public trust in that way, as and when there is a referendum, I will vote to leave the EU. I feel we're better off without an institution that has so little respect for the people of Europe that, when their plan for a European Constitution faltered in referenda, they decided to re-brand it as a "treaty" and cajole national governments into rubberstamping it without a plebiscite.