Peter Grace

Peter has moved around the country, first because of his commitments as an engineer on nuclear submarines and then because of his job as an IT engineer. He has lived in Hampshire and then West Sussex for over eight years. Peter has a grown family who are all trying to keep their heads above the current financial turmoil. He is currently working for a large IT company.

Over the last ten years Peter has become increasingly disillusioned and disconnected from the apparent monolithic, secretive and undemocratic bureaucracy of the European Union. He believes Libertas is the only possible solution to the European elite’s drive to feather their own nest while ignoring you and me. A single, European, political party with MEPs standing in every EU country, Libertas, to bring the EU back to us.

With over 200 national political parties squabbling over their individual agendas, trying to make their voice heard in the European Parliament it is time for one, unified, European party to step in and act as a cohesive opposition party. Currently, there is comfortable co-operation between the EPP and Socialists with no effective opposition in the European Parliament.

82% of us want a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. Gordon Brown and the EU bureaucrats are denying us this right. Libertas are pro Europe, but not at any price. Libertas are implacably opposed to the Lisbon Treaty and a vote for Libertas is the only chance we will have to vote “No” to the Lisbon Treaty before it is ratified by the second Irish referendum, later this year.

A national political party does not have the resources or cohesion to stop the Lisbon Treaty or bring change to Europe. We have seen what response the EU gave to the French, the Dutch and the Irish “No” votes. A national political party would join the other 200 parties in fighting to be heard. We need a party with MEPs in every EU member state, Libertas. An average of 10 MEPs in every country would give Libertas 270 seats in the European Parliament, that is nearly four times as many seats as the United Kingdom has in total. We need the European wide solution to the European bureaucracy, the European secrecy and the European status quo.

A vote for withdrawal from Europe, for independence from the EU, would be a vote threatening our jobs; everyone who makes or grows things, everyone selling things into Europe. It would threaten the livelihood of everyone transporting goods and people in and out of Europe; our lorry drivers, our airport workers and airline people, our ferry workers and dock people. A vote for independence would destroy the economy of everyone who relies on selling furniture, cars, houses, insurance, clothes, etc to our ‘front line’ people and our transport workers. The Federation of Small Business estimates we benefit by over £54 million every single day from the European market. Now is not the time to vote for high import and export tariffs. Now is the time to fix the European Union, make it relevant, transparent, value for money and democratic. Only Libertas will have the resources, the European wide strength to bring about change and fix the EU.