The seven - or possibly now eight - MPs sitting for what, to be honest, we must call the Remain Party, despite having been preparing since last month with company registrations and so forth, were singularly unprepared yesterday for the questions of the press. Chukka on 'Today' was classic. "Do you have any policies other than Remain?" "Brexit is a really important issue and we're committed to rescuing Britain from this foolishness" it went, sort of.
So no. The only policy they have is Remain.
I wish them success in attracting a further 29 rebel MPs from both sides of the House, so they may assume from the SNP the privileges of a third party, together with more Short money and a better quality offices. I also look forward to February 2022 and PMQs
"Mr Ummummumma!"
"Will the Prime Minister recognise that the only way out of this Brexit debacle is to allow a further Referendum, to keep us in Europe where we belong"
"I thank the honourable member for Streatham. He will be aware that since we left the EU in 2019, slashing taxes and opening trade borders, our economy has boomed, defying the global downturn and the car crash of the Eurozone. Foreign Direct Investment is at its highest ever, we have the fourth greatest global GDP, the pound buys €2.20 for our holidaymakers who will again flood Europe this Summer. The Trussel Trust has opened its two-thousandth foodbank in the EU and the incredible generosity of the British people in sending their spare packets and tins across the Channel is keeping many poor Europeans afloat. We fully support IMF aid to the Eurozone, and will do all we can to help the nations of Europe to recover democracy and to stand on their feet again. The government however has no plans to join them"
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The decision by these eight seems irrational, but we must forgive any person who cares for this country having been driven mad, by Theresa May's refusal to listen to reason for years on end now.
Chukka and his mates probably wont be MP's in 2022. Surely they are going to give their constituents a "peoples vote" as independents? Because the people of Streatham etc didn't have the full facts when they elected him/her. They elected a Labour person who promised to abide by that parties manifesto, not jump ship when the going got tough.
Jaded
I hope their action sets a trend - that another Party sets up and offers what people really want (and, incidentally, voted for) i.e. a proper Brexit and return to full self determination.
One the one hand it would destroy Chukka's impetus and deny his Party the (so far) sole benefit of media attention and also scare the mainstream Parties as the vast, vast majority of the voting public flock to a Party that really represents us and our views - something we haven't had for decades.
British politics is broken - maybe Chukka has inadvertently started its repair....
Amid all the room and gloom this article has made me smile. Thank you.
They're all facing deselection so have jumped before being pushed.
Perfectly rational
2nd anonymous is correct, these 8 must offer their constituents a 'People's vote".
Also, as per Andrew, thanks for the laugh, especially liked the food banks and foreign aid, which of course, knowing Britain's illustrious and tolerant past, is exactly what we would do.
Who is funding this new party ?
Soros ?
Dodgy remainer donors ?
Rats, having opened the SS UK’s seacocks are now abandoning ship.
Good to see a few leaving Tory-ukip though. Let's hope that it's the start of an avalanche.
Perhaps the new Remain party will call itself the UK Subjugated Party. Or will they go all out and call themselves the New Europe Empire Party? And maybe they could dig out their first manifesto from 1942 for their European Economic Community, as promoted by Walther Funk.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created and successfully flown the first ever ion-powered plane with no moving parts in the design. Quidditch here we come - not quite yet but is a start.
Budgie the UK, far from being subjugated, was one of the Big Three in the EU, along with France and Germany. It had the maximum QMV votes in the Council along with only those two and Italy. It had the second largest number of MEPs.
Consequently it had enormous influence over twenty-seven other countries, but has cretinously decided to throw away all that.
"Consequently it had enormous influence over twenty-seven other countries, "
But we don't want to control others, why is that so hard to understand?
Short money, not unless they register as an actual party, then they will have to declare where their funding comes from, at this moment in time they are a registered business and do not have to declare their funding, could be interesting !
Domo. The only way for smaller countries to prevent their being bullied by, controlled by, that is, larger ones, such as Russia, the US, and China is by uniting, even if not at all levels.
The EU isn't a bad balance at all.
PS, you must be thoroughly ashamed of the British Empire then, Domo, and glad that those dark days are behind us?
Anon - That's exactly what NATO is, a defensive alliance. You don't need to throw away your sovereignty to a cabal of unelected bureaucrats to have a defence alliance; in fact, NATO works better as a pact between sovereign nations.
The UK cedes far more sovereignty to the US through NATO than it does to the EU. Where are the EU bases on our soil, from which it bombs countries which are not even UK enemies at the time such as Libya, without the UK having a veto?
And as for other law, this so-called seventy-five percent of UK law that is supposedly made in Brussels does not include family and divorce, nor Town and Country Planning. Nor does it cover crime and sentencing. Heath, education and professional standards are outside its remit, as are land, property and inheritance, along with most tax bar VAT. Defence and security are not covered, and nor are electoral matters nor media regulation. Driving and parking rules and penalties appear to be for us too, along with employment and trade union matters, except for health and safety. It seems to be getting rather hard to find. Surely the Leave campaigns would not misIead anyone though?
Anon - most folk are far more worried about the EU's Folie de Grandeur in wanting to create a present empire rather than past history.
Anon - all utterly irrelevant to the UK. We're leaving. Tell it to to the French, or the Italians, or the Irish ...
It's near miraculous, the way that the EU has kept the peace in Europe, despite the US's, sorry, NATO's best efforts.
Read up on Operation Gladio.
our economy has boomed..... the pound buys €2.20 for our holidaymakers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_U3sR5RspI
Awww and I thought it was the notion of sending tinned Fray Bentos meat pies and jars of Shippams Meat Paste to the French that was the most in-credible bit ..
sending tinned Fray Bentos meat pies and jars of Shippams Meat Paste to the French
-Raed
That guilty pleasure would almost be worth the brexiting for!
On a more serious note, I was genuinely shocked to learn , a couple of years back, that there were thriving Food Banks in Germany. Gerd The Shredder, Ferkel and Wolfman Showerbubble may have righted the sinking ship that was Deutschland GmbH with Hartz4 but it came at a cost.
Anon 20 Feb 14:14 said: "the UK, far from being subjugated ..."
False. Declaration 17 of the Lisbon treaty states that EU laws have primacy over UK law. Whether you consider that good, bad (as I do), or indifferent, that is the truth.
The very fact of the present difficulties in leaving illustrates how deeply subjugated we are - if it was just a simple tariff deal we could have been out in a day.
And your boast that the UK "had enormous influence over twenty-seven other countries" gives the game away. There speaks the empire building bully.
The gang of eleven forgot their policy of ignoring democracy and actively working against it.
Interesting that most of the defectors were being deselected anyway for pissing off their constituents who in the main voted Leave.
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