Comments on: Tory backbencher wants vote on 1957 Euro Treaty https://leftfootforward.org/2009/12/douglas-carswell-tory-backbencher-wants-vote-on-1957-treaty-of-rome/ Left Foot Forward is the home for UK progressives. We provide evidence-based analysis on British politics, news and policy. Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:12:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 By: Look Left – The Week in Fast Forward | Left Foot Forward https://leftfootforward.org/2009/12/douglas-carswell-tory-backbencher-wants-vote-on-1957-treaty-of-rome/comment-page-2/#comment-3345 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:12:13 +0000 https://www.leftfootforward.org/?p=5584#comment-3345 […] backbencher Douglas Carswell, who on Wednesday sought to turn back the clock half a century by demanding a referendum on the Treaty of Rome, putting him […]

]]> By: Henry https://leftfootforward.org/2009/12/douglas-carswell-tory-backbencher-wants-vote-on-1957-treaty-of-rome/comment-page-2/#comment-3333 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:08:31 +0000 https://www.leftfootforward.org/?p=5584#comment-3333 Don’t think Anon E Mouse is quite right on the facts here. There was an ICM poll in the Torygraph (5th December) which showed:

52% think climate change is largely man-made
39% believe that it is not proven that climate change is man-made
7% think there is no climate change

Of course, it’s not the only poll on the subject.

]]> By: Liz McShane https://leftfootforward.org/2009/12/douglas-carswell-tory-backbencher-wants-vote-on-1957-treaty-of-rome/#comment-3331 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:52:46 +0000 https://www.leftfootforward.org/?p=5584#comment-3331 Typical Tory looking back to some golden bygone era – a bit like Major’s cricket nostalgia. Thank God for what was the EEC, then EC and now EU it was the thing that got the country through the dark days of Thatcherism.

]]> By: Anon E Mouse https://leftfootforward.org/2009/12/douglas-carswell-tory-backbencher-wants-vote-on-1957-treaty-of-rome/#comment-3329 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:45:56 +0000 https://www.leftfootforward.org/?p=5584#comment-3329 Shamik – You are absolutely right, more people believe it is NOT man made than think it is in all polls, both here and in the US…

]]> By: Shamik Das https://leftfootforward.org/2009/12/douglas-carswell-tory-backbencher-wants-vote-on-1957-treaty-of-rome/#comment-3326 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:27:45 +0000 https://www.leftfootforward.org/?p=5584#comment-3326 Beleive it or not, there are some people out there who do deny the existence of man made climate change.

]]> By: Bill Kristol-Balls https://leftfootforward.org/2009/12/douglas-carswell-tory-backbencher-wants-vote-on-1957-treaty-of-rome/#comment-3323 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:06:54 +0000 https://www.leftfootforward.org/?p=5584#comment-3323 Whilst I’m hugely enthusiastic about the raison d’être of this very fine website, I would suggest that you don’t refer to people as ‘climate deniers’.

I’m sure Professor Frink, sorry I meant the Right Honourable Douglas Carswell MP, does not deny the reality of there being a climate, even though reality is well known to have an innate liberal bias (hat-tip S.Colbert).

]]> By: Rory https://leftfootforward.org/2009/12/douglas-carswell-tory-backbencher-wants-vote-on-1957-treaty-of-rome/#comment-3321 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:00:50 +0000 https://www.leftfootforward.org/?p=5584#comment-3321 What’s a climate-denier?

And how is being concerned about the way parliament has been cowed under New Labour a conspiracy theory? Many sensible people hold this view.

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