From the outset, this recent and ultimately historic EU referendum vote was introduced by David Cameron in a bid to appease the Tory Euro sceptics in his party, this referendum was not announced for the benefit of the people of this country to have a vote on whether we come fully out, or go fully into the EU.. This is a myth which backfired on David Cameron....
Since this vote was held, the English largely, being the least politically interested, educated or motivated in the Western World, voted for “out”, and now close to 4 million people have signed an internet Petition to hold a second referendum, and a new Poll shows that more than a million of the leave voters now regret their choice, and tens of thousands of people marched in London on Saturday 2/7, to protest at the Brexit vote and placards waved in friendship to our European neighbours.
In the wake of this devastating referendum result, there are now over 17 million people who find themselves and their country on the verge of making a catastrophically ill advised leap into the dark.
17 million of the national electorate voted to leave the EU, yet here are over 65 million of us living here, of whom almost as many voted to stay. Our 16-17 year olds, unable to vote, have made it abundantly clear, that if they were afforded the rights of their brothers and sisters in Scotland, they would have overwhelmingly voted to remain a part of the EU.
Also according to polling Data from You-Gov, 75 per cent of 18 to 25 years olds voted to remain in the European Union, the UK vote to leave was 52% of the overall vote, I make the generalisation that it is the younger generations who voted to go fully into the EU, while their parents and grandparents voted out.
For decades Social Europe have had a Social Charter that has incorporated massive influence over UK Employment Laws and Rights at Work, but our Tory Government’s right wing ideological stance is against such rights, which is why way back in the 1980’s Margaret Thatcher wouldn’t take us into Europe due to its Social Charter, but Tony Blair did when New Labour was running the country, and he introduced some aspects of the Social Charter, but decades of Tory rule have chipped away at it, workers rights for instance.
To say I feel sorry for the younger generations of my country is an understatement, not only because many aren’t eligible to vote, but their parents and grandparents have had their day over 30 years on from Margaret Thatcher who began what’s been happening today under David Cameron and George Osborne, and the result, over a million people using Foodbanks....
In my view this in/out European referendum vote has divided our country just like the Thatcher era did, and we remain divided.
Before Jeremy Corbyn won the Labour leadership race, he talked of Europe moving to the right and adopting the same free market deregulation that came with Margaret Thatcher’s era, but when he won leadership of the Labour party, and if he wins the next General election, Jeremy Corbyn has stated that he will take us fully into Europe and in talking with other European Socialist leaders, make the EU Social Charter work for Europe, and Britain.
It doesnt sound enough. Does anyone know differently please?
