Peter Jones

People power then and now

Why doesn’t our Prime Minister try the art of persuasion, instead of issuing threats?

issue 05 March 2016

It does seem extraordinary that the increasingly puce-faced Mr Cameron offered us an ‘in-out’ referendum and is now telling us that ‘out’ would mean the end of the world as we know it. What on earth did he think he was doing? His reaction is to eviscerate MPs who support ‘out’, and intentionally deprive us who will actually make the decision of information enabling us to do so.

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