Tony Bennett

The R J Mansfield petition has now reached 10th place, with the signature tally now 15,455.

The rate of signing has slowed to about 150 a day - still faster than nearly any other petition on the OM's website.

With three more petitions due to drop out by 14 August, it should be sitting in 7th place in three weeks' time.

In rely to Magaera, have a closer look next time!

You need to view the petition *by size* and scroll down to 10th position

Megaera

You're quite right, I did find it again. Back to the banner making - huge bed sheet going up at the traffic lights junction, pointing people to the petition...hopefully good for a few more signatures!

Tony Bennett

A good day for the petition, as *that* Treaty has been in the news today. Tonight it's up to 15,796 signatures.

I predict that it will rise from today's 10th position to 6th by August 15.

20,000 a day were signing the anti-mega mosque petition at its peak. Can't we do the same for this one? - even though the so-called leading organisation against the E.U. - I refer here of course to UKIP - won't even mention it and has started its own

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mkpdavies

No one cares about the EU. They will grumble down the pub, but unless you are sad like us and waste lots of time looking into it, it just doesn't seem that scary.

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Tony Bennett

mkpdavies wrote: "No one cares about the EU. They will grumble down the pub, but unless you are sad like us and waste lots of time looking into it, it just doesn't seem that scary".

REPLY: True up to a point, which is why UKIP gets derisory votes in General Elections. It is however down to us who know that the increasing loss of our independence is a critical issue for the future of our country to use every possible effort to slow down or reverse that process.

A referendum on the E.U. Treaty offers the very best prospect of doing that for years.

The fact that yesterday we had 40 *Labour* MPs also insisting there must be a referendum, including German-born Gisela Stuart M.P. who actually helped *design* the Constitution in the first place, should spur us all on.

If I thought there was a better or easier way of getting a referendum on the E.U. Treaty than by getting millions to sign the R J Mansfield petition, then I would support that.

Is there?

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Tony Bennett

Now the BNP (admittedly only the Scarborough Branch) have followed the selfish leads of Nigel Farage and Geoffrey van Orden MEPs in starting up *yet another* online petition calling for a referendum on the E.U. Treaty.

The R J Mansfield one is the only one that will count.

This is from the BNP website:

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Scarborough BNP have launched an online petition to allow people to voice their support for a referendum on the proposed EU Reform Treaty.

We believe that the Government has a duty to offer a referendum and let the people of Britain have a say before even more of our traditional powers and sovereignty are lost to the faceless bureaucrats of the EU.

UNQUOTE

Independent UKIP

I have looked at their petition. It is totally worthless because there are so many obvious duplicates and an unquantifiable number of unobvious duplicates. MI5 might be taking an interest however.

mark starr

16500 signatures, keep circulating to all contacts

Tony Bennett

The R J Mansfield petition has now topped 17,000 and is in 9th position on the Prime Minister's website.

I last posted the number 15 days ago, when the number having signed it was nearly 15,800.

That represents an increase of more than 1,200 in 15 days i.e. just over 80 a day - which is also consistent with Mark Starr's report of 16,500 a week ago today.

80 a day is...

...not nearly enough.

The petition against the mega mosque was running at up to 20,000 a day in its final fortnight

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Tony Bennett

The R J Mansfield petition calling for a referendum on the E.U. Treaty rose today to *SEVENTH* position on the Prime Minister's website, with over 17,300 signatures. Support for a referendum continues to build - see bleow:

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.../15/weu115.xml

Daily Telegraph

Ex-Foreign Office chief backs EU referendum

[Last Updated: 1:26am BST 15/08/2007]

Plans to create an EU foreign minister with his own diplomatic service would
involve an "enormous transfer of national sovereignty" to Brussels, a former
Foreign Office mandarin warned yesterday.

Sir Antony Acland, head of the Diplomatic Service from 1982-1986, voiced concern about the proposal, a centre-piece of the new treaty which aims to revive the European constitution.

He said there was a "very strong argument" for giving the British people a say
on the so-called reforming treaty in a referendum.

Sir Anthony said the EU was effectively creating its first foreign minister by
unveiling plans for a High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security
Policy.

"What is proposed, the creation of a foreign minister - now to be called a High
Representative but it's exactly the same as it was before - a foreign minister
with a large diplomatic service, represents an enormous transfer of national
sovereignty to people who are not answerable to national parliaments, " he told Radio 4's Today programme.

"There is a very strong argument for having a referendum."

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