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Daniel Hannan Resigns As European Legal Spokesman (RTTNews) - Daniel Hannan, the outspoken Conservative MEP for South East England, has resigned as European legal spokesman in protest at his party leader David Cameron's stance on the Lisbon Treaty. Hannan's resignation came as Cameron said he could no longer consider holding a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty for at least four to five years if the Tories win the general election, now that it had been ratified by all 27 European Union countries. Hannan, a leading Eurosceptic, who became the Tory spokesman on legal affairs in the European Parliament in September, said he would be returning to the back benches to campaign for direct democracy that will see power in the hands of individual citizens. Calling for support from fellow Conservatives to join him to fight for a referendum, he said the "Conservatives are for a referendum: a proper, deep-cleansing referendum that will settle whether our country remains subordinate, or becomes self-governing". Hannan, who secured political notoriety for describing the NHS as a relic and 60-year mistake, has decided to concentrate on shelving some E.U. policies and never again allow powers to be passed to Brussels without a vote in Britain. He argued that the issue of referendums goes beyond Europe and the Lisbon Treaty. "I want open primaries, popular initiative procedures, elected sheriffs, self-financing councils, an end to quangos, recall mechanisms and, yes, referendums--lots and lots of referendums," he said. However, Hannan said that his decision was not an attack on Cameron's decision to no longer hold a Lisbon Treaty referendum. |
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