DENMARK STRIKES A BLOW FOR DEMOCRACY, SAYS KELVIN HOPKINS MP

Luton North MP, Kelvin Hopkins spoke to a meeting of students and staff at the University of Luton last week on the subject of "Globalisation or Democracy?" Kelvin Hopkins said that democracy would be meaningless if elected governments had no control over their economies and that internationalism was about government and peoples working together for their mutual benefit, not giving away all their powers to the money makers, the international bankers and the mega corporations.

Kelvin Hopkins said, "Denmark has made a stand for democracy in its recent referendum on the Euro. By deciding to keep its own currency, the Danes have shown that there is a real choice for others, including Britain. The Danish people wish to keep democratic control of their own economy, with interest rates, exchange rates and levels of public spending among other things controlled by the Danish Government elected by the people, not handed over to the unelected European Central Bank or governed by the monetarist Maastrict Treaty.

"The Denmark vote was a sign that people are becoming increasingly concerned that democracy and the rights of ordinary people are threatened and must not be given away. Throwing all power into the market place would do no good for ordinary people. The unconstrained free market left to itself has been shown time and again to polarise wealth and poverty, and it is modern governments intervening and regulating economies which have created equality and social justice".

For further information please contact Kelvin Hopkins MP on Luton 488208.