Today, Tim Farron, Nick Clegg and Alex Cole-Hamilton have done us proud. Their passionate messages of defiance were very different. Clegg’s anger, Farron’s optimism and Cole-Hamilton’s emotion were exactly what we need right now.
Here are their speeches. Sit back, enjoy, and tomorrow get out there and help them by persuading others to oppose the stark, extreme Brexit that will hurt so many people.
Farron said that the future has not been written yet and we can change the country’s course:
Nick’s focus was young people and holding this awful government to account:
And Alex told Theresa what she’d have to do to deprive him of his EU citizenship:
Having watched this back, my first thought was “Oh god…..” I can hear that the audio is fine, but I see that getting Alex in the frame at all times was not my strong point. In my defence, I was looking straight into the sun, but clearly I shouldn’t give up the day job…
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Awe inspiring speeches by Tim Farron and Nick Clegg. They’ve drawn a clear line in the sand. Our children, grandchildren and country need to share their dream and move towards a brighter tomorrow.
It bothers me that I’m applying for jobs in France and I still don’t understand why people are so angry about brexit. I’m not in love with the EU, no matter how much I Europeanise myself, I can’t feel all this love that others have for the institution.
I don’t think all my rights to work in Europe are going to end after brexit. In my heart I think things will be OK, so inside I feel OK about it. I’m worried about EU migrants, but again, in my heart, I think they will be OK too.
Any ideas why the turnout was so low in London with only 25k on a beautiful Spring day ?
“I don’t think all my rights to work in Europe are going to end after brexit.”
If the rights of UK citizens to live in EEA countries, and vice versa, become closer to the visas we have now for those outside of the EEA then there may be housing, employment and/or income restrictions placed on those wishing to work in Europe. One may believe this to be a good thing and it might not impact on everyone who comments on this site but it will do for thousands (hundreds of thousands?) who lose out on this opportunity. It’s unlikely that there will be greater freedoms for low-middle earning UK citizens in the wider world that will replace those lost from EU membership.
What personally I find very pleasing about the current up-tick in support for our party is that, by contrast with the days of the Liberal/SDP Alliance, the increase in our membership has not been driven by defections to us by senior politicians in other parties, with their own baggage of policy ideas, personal followers and prejudices, but has been brought about by more or less spontaneous decisions by ordinary people that we currently offer the best vision for the UK’s future and are the political party that they should join.
Hugh. Whilst the founders of the SDP were politicians leaving the Labour Party the majority of its members (like myself) had never been members of any previous political party. The media noted that fact and dubbed them ‘political virgins’ at the time most notably around the time Rosie Barnes won the Greenwich by election.
thanks for posting, needs sharing around for those of us not able to be there
@John, Met Police said Unite For Europe march turnout was 100k. Not sure where you got 25k from.
@Eddie Sammon
I’ve noticed that you are a regular on many posts and that recently you have stuck to your views about Brexit in spite of being in the minority.
Well done! I, too, feel that the EU is far from being the promised land and I’m pleased that we are getting out. We travelled and worked in European countries before the EU existed and will continue to do so after it ends, which may not be very long.
Thanks Peter. I’m not happy that we are getting out but I accept the result and now want the best deal for the UK and the EU.
It would be useful to add what Nick Clegg said in the Commons today in the debate on the “Great” Repeal Bill and the current white paper. Nick Clegg drew on his experience as Deputy Prime Minister (where he saw every paper that PM David Cameron saw). It would also be usefulto quote the reply from Brexit secretary David Davis.
Once the dust has settled we will not leave the EU, a bit of tweeking here and a bit there will do it. Article 50 aint the end of the road, it is only the first corner. Article 127 is involved as well. Forget the nonesense of a “Great Repeal Bill”, it is just rhetoric and window dressing. reality in 2 years will be different, Labour will probably have a new leader from the centre of the party and Mrs May will be gone, her luck runneth out. You read it here.
The World at One 30/3/2017 says that the “Great Repeal Bill” will be known as “The Repeal Bill” because of parliamentary rules. Good. I did suggest that to the noble lord who came to our AGM in Tunbridge Wells this year. He said that they had altered the names of bills in the past. It is possible for a bill be large without being great. The Reform Act 1832 made important changes, such as the abolition of constituencies known as pocket boroughs, but it disappointed many people and disallowed votes for women. It was not great.