Resistance March 2018

March 2018 Campaign Edition Resistance However, if their sacrifice is betrayed, ‘WILL THERE BE all hell will break loose. A second vote would probably terminally split the Tory Party regardless of result. Just moving towards one would lead to a challenge to May's leadership (sic) via the 1922 Committee. As a long- term survivor, the PM will not want to jeopardise her own position. She must be aware of how Europe has jinxed most of her predecessors. Having already lost her own majority, she is A SECOND BREXIT likely to be risk-averse. Pollsters don’t always get it right. They 85% of the public voted for parties represent panels more than the public. REFERENDUM?’ promising Brexit in June. This is Online (internet) surveys bias towards effective confirmation of the some sections of the population. ICM, Eurofanatic billionaire George Soros is referendum result. Parties like the the Guardian’s pollsters, gave extra pumping megabucks into a campaign LibDems, Greens and SNP in favour of weight to responses from the 18-24 for a second EU referendum. But how stalling Brexit saw their votes fall back. group, deemed those most likely to likely is this to happen? support Remain. Only 23 MPs recently voted for a The Guardian article admitted that second In-Out referendum. Even Ken 90% of both Leavers and Remainers Clarke voted against one. Jeremy haven't changed their minds, though. Corbyn has tentatively ruled one out. Only he didn’t quite say that! The All polls will feature a small % of Whereas there is no Commons week’s media chicanery might 'weathercocks', individuals who blow majority for one. the Lords might make have influenced an ICM opinion whichever way the wind is blowing – a stand by supporting a second poll conducted from 10 Jan. think of parties getting a poll bounce in referendum as a gesture, but back their party conference week just down when challenged? because they're mentioned. IN PLACE OF STRIFE? Actual referendum campaigns The government’s 2017 manifesto (including abroad) show that the more didn’t want to rerun the Scottish the EU is discussed, the less people referendum as it would be divisive at a like it. So let’s not go overboard over time when we needed to heal. commissioned poll figures. The poll that counted was in June 2016! By the same chalk, a second EU referendum would be even more She obviously believes that under-18s divisive. Several highly acrimonious and foreign voters are needed to months would practically destroy overturn the will of the majority of the political stability. This won’t satisfy the Remoaners, who British electorate. The demand for a second referendum moan that the public should have a W Midlands UKIP MEP James is from a small but noisy clique of vote on any new arrangements. This is Carver reported on BBC radio that Remoaners, totally in a world of their unlikely to sway the PM, who must some of his constituents were appalled own. They are the same fanatics that know that the likely (2018) withdrawal at the way the UK has been treated by wanted us to join the Euro. Most agreement will be such a compromise the EU in the negotiations and are now Remainers, including the reluctant that it will please hardly anyone. The firmly for withdrawal! ones, respect the referendum result complexity of evolving a long-term deal and, if anything, the public feeling is with the EU will probably take us close Farage might be right to an extent just one of wanting to get on with to the 2022 General Election. that the Remoaners are making most Brexit and our everyday lives. Remoaners ignore the fact that the EU of the running. Our supposedly pro- It would be political suicide for Brexit is keen to see us out before the 2019 Brexit government is just releasing a not to happen for other reasons. Euro-elections, and has already succession of suggestions that are Leavers are being pushed to their reallocated UK MEP seats. either fanciful or just aspiration and painfully short on detail. limits to accept a one-sided However unlikely a referendum seems, compromise of a slavish 21 month there is no room for complacency. May We can get the feeling that our transition period from 2019. assured that there would be no early equivocating PM is playing the Even the (Tory) European Research General Election, only to go back on equivalent of ‘Three Card Trick’ with us Group hardliners are not rocking the her word. Lib Dem Baroness Ludford on the government’s actual position. boat over the withdrawal agreement has a ‘(2nd) referendum on withdrawal The political scandal website ‘Guido farce, which indicates that they are agreement’ Bill contriving to give votes Fawkes’ claimed that the UK’s chief prioritising government stability and to 16 year olds and ‘local government negotiator, Olly Robbins, was pro-a party cohesion. electors’ (read: EU nationals). federal Europe in his student days. In the short term, there is the matter Remoaners’ of the withdrawal agreement. All 3 EU using the institutions (Commission, Parliament, Union Jack Council) are agreed that it must be a Norway-like deal. Without a Commons majority for leaving the Single Market, it is difficult to see how the PM could agree a comprehensive alternative by October. Some fear that the Lords will A new anti-Brexit campaign 'Our sabotage the EU Withdrawal Bill, but Future, Our Choice' (OFOC) is aimed under the Parliament Act, it could be at under-45s. It seeks to get young Winning the Battle pushed through by September. It isn’t people to emotionally blackmail their for Britain the mechanism to withdraw us; it just parents and hijack the NHS as an keeps EU law in place and allows it to issue. It is being supported by After writing to Trade Policy Minister be reinterpreted. Remoaner groups: Open Britain, European Movement, Best for Britain Greg Hands, we received a reply from The one to watch will be the EU the Department of International Trade (sic) and Chuka Umunna MP’s Withdrawal and Implementation Bill that our reasoned suggestions for an Grassroots Coordinating Group. covering the withdrawal agreement - independent trade policy (read: ‘and no text yet available. It aims to stir enough opposition to supporting legalese’) had been passed Brexit to force a second referendum. It to the DIT Policy Committee. is fronted by Femi Oluwole, whose CV BANKING ON A SELL-OUT 29.3.19 shows was a lobbyist at the EU We have also written to all known European Research Group members The EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), and the saner pro-Brexit MPs pushing Complete control 35 bn European Centre for Democracy and the case for an ‘inter-governmental of our lives Human Rights (ECDHR) and Alter-EU. Brexit’ – one which safeguards The PM Alter-EU saw “big business lobbies sovereignty - rather than being a against public interest policy-making”, vassal state for 21 months. “too many decision-makers in Brussels The key arguments are available by As it reads, the EU’s withdrawal provide privileged access to big post on request or downloadable from treaty draft is a blank cheque for EU business lobbyists”. ECDHR opposes www.newalliance.org.uk/annex218.htm control, forcing us to accept EU laws, “harassment of those persecuted for ECJ rulings. new laws and even new expressing their political opinions”. An early reply was received from international treaties. (We would have FRA is allegedly anti-‘discrimination’ Sammy Wilson MP, who is DUP consented in advance as a ‘third on the same grounds. spokesman for Brexit and sits on the country’ in international law.) Exiting the EU select committee. ECDHR claims to work with EU bodies A referendum could not stop this as to uphold democracy. On Democracy AND NOW, the EU Withdrawal Bill repeals the Day 2017, former EU President Van …THE ‘EU Act 2011’ requiring a vote on any Rompuy felt that in the EU, “a national CHILE new powers being given to the EU. referendum can’t have the last word”. OPTION. The withdrawal treaty draft covers The Mail recently ran future arrangements but oddly seems some exposés on not to have an end date! This might be ‘Hungarian American’ The above also informs MPs that explained away as to keep N Ireland Soros and other moneyed pro-EU while the EU disingenuously pushes and the Irish Republic in step, but the lobbyists like Stephen the ‘no cherry picking’ mantra at us, it impact is UK-wide. (The note on Peel has signalled its intent to give Chile a ‘Transition’ aka Implementation Period full Free Trade Agreement - covering expiring in 2021 is not a safeguard.). Despite his background, Oluwole practically all goods and services and seems to have a blind spot to the with zero tariffs. Chile would have no NEW democratic rights of those who don’t requirement to adopt EU laws, be TREATY share his views, and the role of big under European Courts or pay for NEW money in undermining them. Not least trade access. Instead the agreement DANGER that from George Soros who made a would respect international standards But will the killing from the ERM debacle in 1992, and use balanced arbitration. ‘loyal’ while millions lost their homes. Tory MPs Adapting the ‘modernised Association just fall These millions, now typically over-45, Agreement’ for Chile to us would be in into line? may have strong views on OFOC. tune with expressed EU free trade ------------------------------------------------ policy, as the current EU Presidency is The PM has said that no Prime Refs: http://www.newalliance.org.uk/ref318.htm committed to ‘ambitious, balanced and Minister could sign up to the draft comprehensive’ FTAs.

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