CAMPAIGNERS for a referendum on EU membership were celebrating after nearly 15,000 voters in Thurrock, backed a referendum.
The People’s Pledge campaign distributed 47,995 ballot forms across the Thurrock constituency.
14,590 votes were recorded, with 13,111 (89.9%) backing a referendum and 1,479 against.
Ian McKenzie, the campaign’s communications director, said the 30.3% turnout was “truly astonishing”, higher than many council election turnouts.
He added: “This turnout is unignorable. The sitting MP and her Labour opponent cannot stick their fingers in their ears, or they are half the politicians I think they are. We were just 2,000 short of the votes the main candidates got in the election.”
The YT cameras were at the People’s Pledge headquarters in Grays for the result and to get the reaction of Ian Mackenzie and Mark Seddon.
Sloppy journalism here I’m afraid. Thurrock electorate is just shy of 80000, so less than 20%. The 30 per cent figure is presumably based on the size of the electoral roll they could actually get their hands on. Cheeky from People’s Pledge, sloppy for YT to reprint it without clarification.
Still, 15000 would represent relative success for them, interesting.
Well done Thurrock, hope the news makes the nationals!
Well done to The Peoples Pledge but really this is a hollow victory as the vote means absolutley nothing to any government, untils such time that the ruling party of the day calls for a full referendum we will be no furrther forward with this issue.
This result shows that the 3 main parties are not representing the views of the people of Thurrock. If I was MP for Thurrock I’d be brushing up my CV.
The result will carry on meaning nothing to the government as the vast majority of those eligible to vote didn’t. I for one would be perfectly prepared to listen to any opinion poll (which is what this is a glorified excuse for) that managed to get 50% or more of people responding. This did not.