Vote John Stevens in Runcorn & Helsby on May 1st
Brexit isn’t working
Vote John Stevens, Rejoin EU Party, in Runcorn & Helsby on May 1st
The Rejoin EU Party brings together former and present members of all the main British political parties. We are united by the goal of restoring British membership of the European Union.
The silence on Brexit by the major parties is unacceptable, as is an airy promise to re-join the single market at some undefined date in the dim and distant future.
We know the simplest way to kick-start the economy is by re-joining the EU.
I want to give voters in Runcorn & Helsby a choice that the main parties refuse to offer. A chance to boost the economy and get the UK back on track.
As a former Conservative Member of the European Parliament who left the party over Europe, I know Rejoin – and Rejoin in the immediate future – is the only viable option.
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Why I’m standing for the Rejoin EU Party in Runcorn & Helsby
Less than a quarter of the electorate now believe leaving the EU was the right decision and that proportion continues, with good reason, to decline. Brexit – the flagship policy of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, the one with which it’s intimately and inexorably identified – is a failure: one so great it undermines the plausibility of every other policy Reform now proposes. Indeed, Brexit is especially a failure on Farage’s own terms. He sold it, above all, as essential to reducing and even eliminating immigration. But ending EU freedom of movement, in precise terms a labour mobility – not an immigration – policy, since the overwhelming majority of European citizens coming here returned to their home countries after a period, has increased the number of people coming from outside Europe, many of whom do seek permanent settlement here.
Some supporters of Brexit try to pretend, like Communists explaining the fall of the Soviet Empire, that its failure is due to politicians not doing it properly. But given the structure of our own economy and its interactions with that of the wider world, such a failure was inevitable. The nation needs to acknowledge this fact and, notwithstanding the utter lack of leadership from Labour and the Lib Dems, begin to put real pressure upon the new government to begin the process of ending Brexit.
Given what is now at stake, it’s grotesque that none of the main opposition parties in last year’s General Election really even mentioned Brexit, except in the most marginal manner. The nation must now admit that leaving the EU has been a monumental mistake which simply has to be reversed. The deep divisions and deprivations in our society which caused the 2016 referendum result can only be addressed by re-joining the EU, as full members, with all this would entail. For only that will bring sufficient economic growth and restore the UK’s global political and diplomatic influence.
So pro-Europeans have the opportunity, in by-elections such as that due to take place in Runcorn & Helsby on May 1st, to cast a meaningful vote: for the Rejoin EU Party, for this will send the most explicit message that such is the path the nation must now travel – almost nine years since the EU referendum.
John Stevens, Rejoin EU Party candidate, Runcorn & Helsby
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