European Union (Referendum) Bill
Debate between Lee Scott and Robert Neill
Friday 17th October 2014
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Robert Neill
No, I do not accept that proposition. What the issue is about is giving people a choice, 40 years on.
Mr Lee Scott (Ilford North) (Con)
Does my hon. Friend agree that those who do not wish to give the British public the vote they rightly deserve do not deserve to be honoured by the British public?
Robert Neill
My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I have no doubt that if there were those—either present today, or not present today—who were tempted, having not put up or shut up at today’s Second Reading, to use various Westminster village procedural games and devices to frustrate the giving of a say to the British people—[Interruption]—they would incur the opprobrium of their voters, and would do great damage—[Interruption.]