Tebbit supports EU exit campaign

Conservative peer Lord Tebbit has thrown his weight behind a cross-party campaign called Better Off Out (BOO) to get Britain out of the EU, March 2007.

He said 'From being a supporter of British membership of the Common Market in 1970 I have come to believe that the United Kingdom would be Better Off Out of the developing European Republic of the 21st century. We British have a thousand year history of self-government. We have been free and democratic longer than any other nation. The European Union is too diverse, too bureaucratic, too corporatist and too centralist to be a functioning democracy. We are happy to trade with our European friends and the rest of the world - but we would prefer to govern ourselves.'

Website: Better Off Out http://www.betteroffout.co.uk/

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