Public letter to PM David Cameron on the Catalan issue

Mr. David Cameron, Prime Minister

10 Downing St,

London SW1A 2AA,

United Kingdom                                         

November 18th 2014

Public letter to Rt. Hon. PM David Cameron on the Catalan issue

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Dear Prime Minister,

As expatriate citizens from different countries with strong ties with the United Kingdom, we firstly wish to express our sincere admiration for the democratic position your Government adopted over the Scottish Referendum. The Scottish people were given the opportunity to decide their own future, an iniciative that must be deemed fair, modern and democratic. It is due precisely to the wisdom of this decision, however, that we consider it a contradiction that, on November 10th, you should have publicly expressed your support for Mr. Rajoy over the Catalan independence poll which was declared “illegal” by the Spanish Government. This successful poll was conducted in the most democratic fashion as certified by a group of MEP observers, headed by Mr. Ian Duncan, giving a result of over 80% support for Catalan independence. Many Catalans regret the implicit blessing that your statement bestowed on Mr Rajoy’s blunt opposition to the right of Catalans to vote. On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, and  301 years after the British Government’s tragic failure to comply to the terms of the Treaty of Genova at Utrecht, the signatories of this letter feel that today it should be the duty of the British Prime Minister, and other European leaders, to support the Catalan people in their bid to find a democratic solution to their problem and to take into their own hands the key decisions regarding their political future. It is a right no European people should be denied.

Yours faithfully,

Stephen Anderson 

Berni Armstrong 

Sonia Barrachina Aguilar  

John Frederick Bates 

Helena Batlle 

Elizabeth Castro 

Valeria Collins Sherrad 

Paul Costello 

Simone Coward

Howard Croll 

Bob M. Crossan  

Brian Cutts 

Rolando d'Alessandro 

Rob Denny 

Susan M. DiGiacomo

Graciella Edo Basté 

Eleanor English 

Pau Figueras 

Ralph Freeman 

Laia Gasch Casals 

Jordi Giudici Font  

Monica Gomar 

Antoni Gonzalez Bartina 

Janet Frances Graham 

Simon Harris 
Jacqueline Hurtley 
Barbara Jackson Wilson 

Erik William Jeffery 
Abigail Jones
Mireia Jofre-Bonet
Elaine R.  Jones 
Lindsay Kennard  
Martin Kirby 
Joan Kirtz Llobet 
Georgios Konstantinou 
Ramon Lamarca 
Victoria Lenz 

Tammy Leung 

Angela Lloret Blackburn

Ifan Lloyd 

Robin McArthur 

Cathal Mac Gabhann 

Adam Macià-Parris 

Oriol Margo 

Manuel Martinez Cid

Fiona Megan Kelso

Jacquie Minett 

 Stefano Montanari 

Antoni Morales 

Massimo Moruzzi 

Deborah Jane Moss 

Joseph A Munoz 

Iain Ó hAnnaidh 

David Owen 

Belinda Jane Parris

Alison Jane Partington 

William Charles Phillips Mockford 

John Pidcock 

Sandra Piddock 

Debbie Price 

Irene Pujol Torras 

Raquel Queraltó Miró 

Andreu Quintana Segala 

John Edward Rix Newbery 

Maria Robert Vidal 

Elizabeth Russell 

Ester Sahagun i Sala 

Laura Sola Sanmiquel 

Krystyna Schreiber

Antoni Strubell 

Miquel Strubell 

John Style 

Stephanie L. Sweet 

Matthew Tree 

Amelia Trueta 

Maria Lluïsa Virgili Ayala 

Trevor Waters 

Margaret Whitman 

Collective Letter Address

Catalan Democracy,

Rambla de la Generalitat 15  A-1-2

17220 Sant Feliu de Guíxols

BAIX EMPORDÀ  - CATALUNYA

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