The Great
Deal that will Save the Nation from the Pesky Foreigners has been revealed
How proud
is the cry from Mrs May and her Government?
“Free movement will end once and for all”
proclaims the slick advert.
Forgive
me for not falling over myself in the rush to proclaim this a great victory
although there doesn’t seem to be much enthusiasm in general to be fair. What
a mean-minded piece of triumphalism. Slow handclap to the people of this great
nation who have continued to support the removal of freedoms and rights on the
say so of 17,410,742 people out of a total population of 66 million. This is the most amazing case of the tyranny
of the minority I have ever seen. This
figure equates to a percentage of 26.37% of the population imposing their
desires on 73.27% of the public. I don’t
know about you, but these figures make me angry and have continued to make me
angry since that day in June 2016 when the Leave campaign cheated to get over
the line and fear and suspicion of the “other” won out.
But we didn’t
vote leave because of immigration, I hear you say.
Well Mrs. May believes you did because she has been clear from the start,
she wants to stop freedom of movement and reduce immigration and it’s the very
first thing her tawdry advert proclaims.
Tell me
again.
Why
have you given up your rights to easily live, study, love, work or retire in any
one of our beautiful European member states?
Why have you given up the benefit of pooling resources with our closest
neighbours and partners? We cannot take
part in the myriad of schemes and initiatives that bring back targeted assistance
to the regions struggling the most. We must
reinvent a whole list of agencies for ourselves that we have been an equal party to developing
over 40 years. Every aspect of our lives
is connected to the structures around the EU.
Not even the remain community knew the half of it and leave politicians certainly
had no idea. I mean, Raab only just realised
Dover is an important port!
Why
have you voted for the 3 million EU27 amongst us and your fellow citizens in the EU
to be relegated from being equals within their communities to second class citizens? How are
you going to resolve the challenges we face?
Is it not better to work together, for example, to deal with the multinational corporations arranging their tax affairs to the
detriment of their tax paying customers' nations? You all sit there moaning
about this company and that company not paying tax, this is exactly the kind of
thing our representatives in the EU work on together with our partners and we can carry on working together to come up with some
solutions that are fair to the citizens and the businesses alike. We can only do that as a bloc.
What
about climate change? Remember
that? With a White House which currently
declines to place importance on environmental issues it is more vital than ever that as a group we stand together in Europe, sharing our science and research in
this area, no borders no obstacles, seeking political consensus that will help us find solutions to
deliver the planet to our children in better condition than when we found
it.
How are
we to tackle the big problems coming in the more distant future – the
demographic time bomb of an ageing population, automation reducing the amount of skilled well-paid work
available. These are problems best faced together, working out ways to
make our industries work for our citizens rather than the other way around.
How will
being a third country increase your wages?
How will it reduce your living costs?
How will it build you new homes or take the homeless off the
street? Why are Germany able to
magically export massive amounts to China whilst being members and why is Denmark seemingly not hampered in running a generous progressive welfare system by
being in the EU. Nationalised Industries such
as trains and utility companies are all over the EU.
All
these things have been offered as reasons to give up our membership. Funny that, nothing about our membership is stopping us doing any
of it. NOTHING. Yet every day we ask
the same key question and get no logical reply.
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| graphic via @BrimhamG |
Politicians
who continue to enable Brexit and cannot answer this question convincingly,
well it had best be something extremely good.
When the people have figured out the truth as the consequences start to
bite, the Parliament of 2018 will not be forgiven.
Its time for you to offer informed consent
#peoplesvote
with #optiontoremain #finalsayforall
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