Iain McKie tells OnTheWight that Wightout is a cross-party political group on the Isle of Wight to make the case for ‘OUT’ in the upcoming EU membership referendum. He shares this release following the publication of the letter from President Donald Tusk to the Members of the European Council relating to the UK renegotiation, 2nd February 2016. Ed
It is quite clear from the letter from Donald Tusk to the European Council that the British Prime Minister has been left humiliated.
On the table are heavily diluted solutions and empty promises that will neither deliver a return of sovereignty to the United Kingdom, nor a framework for meaningful structural reform. Instead, the UK has been offered a series of consolation prizes whose effects will peter out very shortly after adoption, all of which require unanimous approval by the other 27 Member States.
The systemic and institutional problems at the core of the European Union remain unscathed.
Wightout are grateful for all of the genuine efforts made by politicians and civil servants alike in their efforts to try and affect material and beneficial change for the UK in this renegotiation, but believe that this empty package is all that could realistically have been won.
We hope that residents on the Isle of Wight read the proposals in full and come to the conclusion that we are better off out of the EU.
