4. Urgent Question: The European Economic Area Agreement

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 2:46 pm on 29 November 2016.

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Photo of Mr Neil Hamilton Mr Neil Hamilton UKIP 2:46, 29 November 2016

Isn't it about time the remoaners stopped trying to frustrate the freely expressed wishes of the British people in June? The question was plain and simple: do we want to remain in the EU or leave the EU? There was no if or but. There was no qualification or condition. There was nothing about whether it should be a soft Brexit or a hard Brexit. The decision taken by the British people under the terms of the referendum Act that was passed to facilitate this was: do you want to stay or to leave? And the British people voted to leave. The Conservative party, in its manifesto before the last general election, included a paragraph that said:

‘We believe in letting the people decide: so we will hold an in-out referendum on our membership of the EU before the end of 2017.’

The Government has a mandate to implement its manifesto pledge, and all this wriggling by the very inaptly named British Influence, which is a front organisation for European influence, should be ignored, and we should move as quickly as possible to trigger article 50 and, if necessary, article 127 and leave the EU, consequent upon the freely expressed wish, unconditionally, by the British people.