Clegg calls for Euro referendum - Yahoo! News UK
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg wants Britain to be able to decide its future in Europe.
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He said he believes the time has now come for a referendum on whether the country should stay in the EU.
Mr Clegg said politicians had "all gone crazy" over Europe and had been "trading blows" in a way that distracted attention from the real debate.
He complained that pro-Europeans such as himself are accused of being "sell-outs" while Eurosceptics are branded "headbangers".
"We've all gone crazy. Pro and anti, Europhile and Eurosceptic, trading blows about the Lisbon treaty in grand rhetoric that obscures the facts," he said.
"It is time for a debate politicians have been too cowardly to hold for 30 years - time for a referendum on the big question. Do we want to be in or out?
"Nobody in this country under the age of 51 has ever been asked that simple question. That includes half of all MPs. We've been signed up to Europe by default: two generations who have never had their say."
Mr Clegg, himself a former Euro-MP will this week table an amendment in Parliament to the Lisbon treaty bill demanding an "in or out" referendum