Brexiteers Change Their Tune
David Schneider and Twitter with a timely reminder of all the bogus arguments Brexiters no longer make in support of leaving the European Union.
ARGUMENTS BREXITERS NO LONGER MAKE:— David Schneider (@davidschneider) April 10, 2019
£350m a week for NHS
Turkey about to join EU
Parliamentary sovereignty (MPs = traitors obvs)
Boost for economy
Global, prosperous Britain (now not likely for 50 years at least)
ONLY ARGUMENT THEY STILL MAKE:
Will of the people 3 years ago
Brexit Banger (04/04/19)
Private Eye, the UK's best and only fortnightly satirical magazine, sums up where we've got to over Brexit after almost 3 years since the 2016 EU referendum.
Put It To The People! (03/04/19)
Labour MP Jess Phillips challenges Jeremy Corbyn to stand up for the vast majority of Labour party supporters by demanding a People's Vote on the final terms of Brexit.
She should have been speaking to Jeremy Corbyn every week since 2017. I hope he goes in and says exactly as we have been saying, we will vote for her deal if she puts it to the people. Jeremy has been chanting "Power to the people" his whole life so hope he says it now
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Put It To The People (01/04/19)
Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson has thrown his weight behind a 'Put It To The People' vote on the final terms of Brexit which seems like a sensible compromise after all the twists and turns ever since the EU referendum in 2016.
But the big question remains - where is Jeremy Corbyn in all of this and what's the point of a party leader who is incapable of leading?
Read the full story in the link below to Politics Home.
https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/foreign-affairs/brexit/news/102913/back-second-brexit-referendum-beat-tories-tom-watson?
Back second Brexit referendum to beat the Tories, Tom Watson tells Labour MPs
By Anahita Hossein-Pour - Politics Home
The party’s second-in-command also said preparations at grassroot levels are underway to fight the next elections - Credit: PA Images
The Labour party’s deputy leader also called on the opposition to embrace fresh European elections in May - and said he was "confident" Labour could outperform the Tories if it pledged a second Brexit vote.
The call comes after Theresa May’s deal was struck down for a third time in the Commons on Friday, and as MPs prepare to vote on a series of Brexit options, including a second referendum, on Monday.
Tom Watson hints at government of national unity to break Brexit deadlock
Tom Watson says he will vote for Theresa May's Brexit deal if she allows second referendum
Labour frontbencher quits to join rebellion against second Brexit referendum
Labour Brexit splits erupt over MPs' bid for second EU referendum
Labour frontbencher Melanie Onn quit her job last week to join a major rebellion against the party's backing for a second EU referendum, while three Shadow Cabinet members abstained on the vote.
But, Writing in The Guardian, Mr Watson called on his colleagues to get behind the party's new push for a public vote.
"I respect the different judgments reached by some of our MPs - none of these decisions is easy - but more than 80% of Labour MPs backed Margaret Beckett’s motion saying that any deal to leave the EU should not be pushed through by parliament unless it has also been approved by the people," he said.
"This is a compromise position that provides a clear path to break the deadlock. Whether you voted Leave, like the majority of people in my area did, or whether you voted Remain, the current parliamentary paralysis works for no one."
The Shadow Culture Secretary also argued that Parliament imposing a deal or cancelling Brexit without going back to voters would seem "undemocratic in the extreme" - and he said a second ballot could heal, rather than divide, the country.
And he added: "I think Labour should embrace European elections just as we should welcome a general election that might get rid of this broken government.
"If we go into either contest with a positive policy on Brexit and say any final deal must be put back to the people, I am confident Labour can win.
"We already have a fund raised by local parties to pay for the campaign and I’ve asked our national executive committee to develop a plan to get grassroots members involved in selecting candidates.”
The Kyle/Wilson amendment - which seeks to secure a referendum on a Brexit deal with Remain also on the ballot paper - failed to get a Commons majority by 27 MPs in the first round of indicative votes last week.
It will however be among the options put back to MPs for further ballot casting on Monday.
The Labour party’s deputy leader also called on the opposition to embrace fresh European elections in May - and said he was "confident" Labour could outperform the Tories if it pledged a second Brexit vote.
The call comes after Theresa May’s deal was struck down for a third time in the Commons on Friday, and as MPs prepare to vote on a series of Brexit options, including a second referendum, on Monday.
Tom Watson hints at government of national unity to break Brexit deadlock
Tom Watson says he will vote for Theresa May's Brexit deal if she allows second referendum
Labour frontbencher quits to join rebellion against second Brexit referendum
Labour Brexit splits erupt over MPs' bid for second EU referendum
Labour frontbencher Melanie Onn quit her job last week to join a major rebellion against the party's backing for a second EU referendum, while three Shadow Cabinet members abstained on the vote.
But, Writing in The Guardian, Mr Watson called on his colleagues to get behind the party's new push for a public vote.
"I respect the different judgments reached by some of our MPs - none of these decisions is easy - but more than 80% of Labour MPs backed Margaret Beckett’s motion saying that any deal to leave the EU should not be pushed through by parliament unless it has also been approved by the people," he said.
"This is a compromise position that provides a clear path to break the deadlock. Whether you voted Leave, like the majority of people in my area did, or whether you voted Remain, the current parliamentary paralysis works for no one."
The Shadow Culture Secretary also argued that Parliament imposing a deal or cancelling Brexit without going back to voters would seem "undemocratic in the extreme" - and he said a second ballot could heal, rather than divide, the country.
And he added: "I think Labour should embrace European elections just as we should welcome a general election that might get rid of this broken government.
"If we go into either contest with a positive policy on Brexit and say any final deal must be put back to the people, I am confident Labour can win.
"We already have a fund raised by local parties to pay for the campaign and I’ve asked our national executive committee to develop a plan to get grassroots members involved in selecting candidates.”
The Kyle/Wilson amendment - which seeks to secure a referendum on a Brexit deal with Remain also on the ballot paper - failed to get a Commons majority by 27 MPs in the first round of indicative votes last week.
It will however be among the options put back to MPs for further ballot casting on Monday.
Labour In Denial (29/03/19)
The latest YouGov poll confirms that the vast majority of Labour voters (79%) think it's wrong, with the benefit of hindsight, to leave the EU.
Yet Jeremy Corbyn and his closest allies have now declared that Labour is no longer a 'Remain' party but a 'Leave' party.
Listen to what Labour's trade secretary told the BBC's Today programme via the link below.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-47721160/brexit-labour-not-a-remain-party-barry-gardiner-says
BREXIT: Labour 'not a remain party, Barry Gardiner says.
The Labour Party will not support cancelling Brexit but will support a second referendum to "stop a no deal or a bad deal", its international trade secretary has said.
Barry Gardiner told the Today programme: "We have committed ourselves to trying to deliver the referendum result... Labour is not a remain party now... we're trying to get a good deal".
