All Britain's political parties should make a commitment in their general election manifestos to hold a referendum on Britain's EU membership during the lifetime of the next parliament. That referendum should ask a plain question: do you want Britain to stay in the EU? Whatever the EU has by then become, that is, and on the best terms that our government has then been able to negotiate. In or out. Yes or no. Only thus will we work out who we are and where we want our country to be. Without that defining moment, we will carry on mugwumping for ever more. It is, however, ridiculous to spend much time on the subject now, when we still don't know if and how the eurozone will be saved, and hence what this Europe will be.
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