Cross Party Groups to Maintain Close Relationship to Europe
The latest trade figures do not look great for anywhere for anywhere in the UK, but we in Swindon should be particularly concerned. Exports to the EU from the UK are down dramatically (40% from December), and far from made up by the small increase in exports to other parts of the world (1.7% rise). …
With the furore over the EU’s handling of the vaccine rollout, and the bungling of Article-16 by the EU Commission, we thought we might try and balance the perspective by sending in some letters. A few got published! Please throw a few supportive comments our way, or some thumbs up to other supportive comments! Cheers! …
I attended the Grassroots for Europe webinar held on 27th January with both Will Hutton and Gina Miller, and I have to say, it was quite inspiring and has made me feel more confident about our future, and that the cause we are supporting is the right one. However, we need to be agile and …
For your amusement This was a question posed on Facebook on her page by an old friend from 40 years ago and now a FB Friend. Ahead of me there were 20 responses declaring NO (including my FB friend), followed by various levels of adoration. Then came me – I said: YES – Absolutely the …
A deeply misguided individual sent a letter into Swindon Advertiser comparing actions of Remains (who have always acted lawfully) with the actions of the seditious Trump supporters who violently attacked the US congress: https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/18994115.letters-democracy-means-accepting-vote-result/?fbclid=IwAR1IspL4CSIxVDle__egLy9DdwkG9PzIAM4ohwdQZQlmZy8l0ztDoCJ-b4M Swindon for Europe have composed an official response (see below), however many of our members were also outraged and sent letters …
Brexit has always been an impossibility, but how it unfolds is unpredictable. We do not know how long it will take for the wider public to fully appreciate what they have lost. Nor do we know how the political landscape will unfold for the United Kingdom, but we can guess that it’s going to be …
I read in a Guardian article (see link below) that the Govt have announced that we will not be sticking with Erasmus, an instead they will set up our own British scheme named after Alan Turing. Clearly, it would be great if they do set up a scheme to pay for British students to study …
Some good letters have been published in the Swindon Advertiser around the fact that Brexit was not responsible for the UK getting the vaccine deployed first (see the link below) Hope you enjoy them! Sam Swindon for Europe Vaccine not a Brexit issue Steve Halden appears to have made the same error as Matt Hancock, …
The excellent West Country Bylines has put out an article detailing the principles by which public servants should operate, and explains why our current government does not live us to them. Here is the opening: The Seven Principles of Public Life (also known as the Nolan Principles) apply to anyone who works as a public …
We had a our open letter to the MPs of Swindon and Wiltshire published in the advertise. Some very supportise comments too. Steve Rouse, from Swindon for Europe has also had a couple of interviews with the Adver and I’ll be sharing those as soon as they go out. See the letter, and the article …
We had a pretty exciting weekend with lots of street action. After the deluge of Friday night put paid to our efforts to do our customary Wood Street protest, we met on Saturday lunchtime in the town centre of Swindon, and to our amazement people were almost snatching the leaflets straight out of our hands! …
Our priority now is to get as good a deal as we can along the lines we promote in our petition here. There is however considerable interest in EFTA as an option for Brexit at the end of the transition period. For instance we came across a recent article in Times of Malta (22 October …
