Swiss referendum shows Gordon Brown the way
February 12, 2009
In the week that Gordon Brown found his injudiciuos phrase ” British jobs for British workers” come back to haunt him, the Swiss were quietly using a referendum to deal with same problem in a much more constructive way. They held a referendum on an economic treaty with the EU. The clause about free access for foreign workers was controversial but patient argument about its necessity won the day. A sequence of opinion polls show public opinion coming round to support the treaty and this clause.
