Labour could pay an electoral price for failing to bin Brexit, Rejoin EU Party says

 

September 30, 2024

Labour could pay an electoral price for failing to bin Brexit, Rejoin EU Party says

Voters are waking up to Brexit chaos and could punish Keir Starmer's Labour government if it fails to end it, the Rejoin EU Party says.

While many mainstream politicians won't mention Brexit, people increasingly understand the rising economic and political damage it's causing, Rejoin EU Party leader Brendan Donnelly told the Press Association at Saturday's National Rejoin March in London.

“This is a march of people who care about Britain's relationship with the EU. We're shocked and appalled by Brexit and we think it should be reversed,” Donnelly told PA in an interview (video link below).

“The main politicians don't want to talk about it, but we want to remind them there are people who still care very much about Europe and understand the damage Brexit is doing. It'll only get worse and we're confident people increasingly realise that.

“I'm afraid Keir Starmer has started off quite unimpressively. I think he believes that if he just smiles at the people in Brussels and says 'give me what I want', we'll be able to have our cake and eat it after Brexit. I think that's a delusion and I don't think he's serious at the moment.

“If he wanted to re-join the single market and customs union, that's something that would be economically enormously valuable for this country. He says he wants economic growth as a priority of his premiership – well, why doesn't he explore that?

“I think some people thought Starmer was 'playing a long game' and that once he was in power, he would rapidly move away from what I regard as his absurd 'red lines', but that hasn't happened – on the contrary, he seems to be reinforcing them.

“The youth-mobility proposals, for instance, have been rejected, very unnecessarily in my view, because Starmer thinks they might smack of freedom of movement. Well, that in my opinion is an over-cautious, cowardly way of doing things.

“You're never going to appease the absolute eurosceptics – you have to explain to them they're wrong and Starmer's not had the confidence to do that. I hope he'll develop it, but he hasn't yet.

“We are, if you like, a bit like UKIP was 20 years ago. We want to explain to and persuade Starmer there's an electoral price for being anti-European and we hope more and more people will come to share our view. In a democracy, people can change their minds.” 

Link: “Protestors march through central London calling for UK to re-join EU” – https://video.pa.media/record/~df7eb16d2b

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The party is campaigning to re-join the EU because we believe re-joining is the only way to solve the multiple problems Brexit has created. Brexit is broken and it’s breaking our country too. All the promises on which Brexit was sold to the electorate in 2016 were nonsense. Far from reducing red tape and providing £350m a week for the NHS, Brexit makes trading with the crucial European market more complex, difficult and expensive and threatens to reduce funding for public services. If you agree Brexit is making our country poorer, less tolerant and less united, join us and send a message to Westminster that you want your EU membership back, with all its freedoms and benefits.