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European Union Bill

All we would end up debating from my postbag is the state of our roads following the recent cold weather—but that is not how politics works. I have been led away from my line of argument, which is that it is time that the people had a say on the EU. As I said in response to my hon. Friend the Member for Ipswich (Ben Gummer), many people in communities such as Goole, which has seen large amounts of immigration as a result of EU expansion, would say, ““Lots of people come here to fill jobs people here won't do. They come here to work incredibly hard, but we have had such a mass influx, and nobody asked us for our permission through the ballot box for the extension of immediate rights to come to this country and work without any requirements or immigration controls.”” Nobody asked the British public, who are rightly angry about that, and that is why they wish to have a referendum.