The Democracy Movement is a crossparty Euroscepticpressure group in the UK with around 150 local branches. It grew out of the late James Goldsmith's Referendum Party in 1998. It campaigns against Britain entering Economic and Monetary Union with the Eurozone. This is on the grounds that the British government would lose control over interest rates, exchange rates and spending on public services. Euroscepticism is scepticism about, or disagreement with, the purposes of the European Union, sometimes coupled with a desire to preserve national sovereignty. ... An advocacy group, interest group or lobbying group is a group, however loosely or tightly organized, doing advocacy: those determined to encourage or prevent changes in public policy without trying to be elected. ... James Goldsmith as he appeared in his Referendum Party’s mass-mailed video tape, March 1997. ... The Referendum Party were a single-issue party in the United Kingdom formed to contest the 1997 General Election. ... This article covers the EMU of the European Union. ... The euro area (also called Eurozone, Eurosystem or Euroland) is the subset of European Union member states which have adopted the euro, creating a currency union. ...
The Democracy Movement campaigns to win a 'NO' vote in any referendum held on the EU Constitution. The movement claims that far from being a 'tidying up exercise' of existing treaties and powers as the government claims, the Constitution represents a fundamental change in the nature of the EU and a significant increase in the centralisation of decision-making power in Brussels.
The Democracy Movement calls for the dismantling of the EU and its replacement with a new flexible and voluntary form of co-operation between European governments, called the 'Europe of Democracies'. Powers will be decentralised from Brussels back to elected national parliaments whose laws will resume legal precedence. Trade will be facilitated between countries within Europe and across the World, and an internationalist outlook will be developed. Billions of pounds from the Brussels budget will be re-distributed to the peoples of Europe.
The DM is funded by donations from grassroots supporters although the Goldsmith family and the Eurosceptic businessman Paul Sykes have made large campaign donations in the past. Paul Sykes (born 1943) is a British businessman, political donor, and friend and associate of the eurosceptic populist politician Robert Kilroy-Silk. ...
We started the living democracymovement to respond to the enclosures of the commons that is at the core of economic globalisation.
The living democracymovement is simultaneously an ecology movement, an anti-poverty movement, a recovery of the commons movement, a deepening of democracymovement, a peace movement.
Democracy is dead when governments no longer reflect the will of the people but are reduced to anti-democratic unaccountable instruments of corporate rule under the constellation of corporate globalisation as the Enron and Chiquita case make so evident.
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