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The Sixth Congress
for Democracy
was held on Friday
13 July 2001
at Church House,
Dean's Yard, Westminster.
The post-election
Sixth Congress looked at the new political situation after
the general election and discussed how best to work together to achieve
our goal of keeping an independent pound.
A
panel of representatives from the main campaigning groups gave their views to the Sixth Congress on how we should plan the
referendum campaign. This was followed by a full discussion.
The other agenda items
were speeches from Roger Pincham,
(Liberal Democrat and former Chairman of the Liberal Party) who made the case for keeping an independent
pound,
Sir
Oliver Wright, former UK Ambassador to Washington, who spoke on Britain’s relationship with the EU and the
world, and
Roger Helmer MEP, who
spoke on democracy.
Two discussion papers
were also presented to the Sixth Congress: from Frederick
Forsyth (Chairman of the Congress for Democracy Constitutional Committee) on
parliamentary democracy, and from David
Green (Communications
Director, Liberal Party) on the democratic deficit.
Click
here for the minutes of the
Sixth Congress for Democracy.
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