I was honoured to be asked to speak yesterday on Parliament Square in London at the #RejoinEUMarch about how the government can achieve its objectives for growth (& repair public finances) more easily if it is less cautious about moving back towards Europe
Delighted to have had the opportunity to speak about the ongoing damage of Brexit and how to rectify it, at the Socialist Societies event at #LabourConference24
Labour Party local branch in Shipley (Yorkshire) tonight unanimously approved a motion calling on the Labour government to rejoin the EU’s single market and customs union, to reduce the £40bn a year of lost tax revenue caused by Brexit.
The costs of Brexit dwarf the figures currently being argued about in Britain’s spending / saving rows:
UK scientists win EU funding after Britain rejoins EU research programmes channel4.com/news/uk-scie...channel4.com
50 UK-led research projects have won funding through the EU’s Horizon programme, for the first time since Brexit.
My article for Social Europe: “What should Labour aim for in Europe?” “The new government’s goals are modest. But economic reality may force it to follow changing public opinion.” From socialeurope.eu
Polling shows voters back rejoining ERASMUS by 51% to 15 %. Supporters of ALL parties (except Reform UK) support rejoining. Even Leave voters back re-entry by 38 % to 26%. No reason to hold back on reversing Johnson’s cultural vandalism! From politico.eu
European Politics, Policy, Government News
A reminder of what British attitudes to Europe were, before two-thirds (measured by readership numbers) of Britain's press was owned by three tax-dodging foreign-resident europhobe oligarchs... From ukandeu.ac.uk
A Tory Prime Minister once aptly summed up the Daily Mail and the Daily Express: "They are engines of propaganda...their methods are direct falsehood, misrepresentation, half-truths…” (Stanley Baldwin, 1931) Little has changed!
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