Cross Party Groups to Maintain Close Relationship to Europe
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 …
Some of our campaigners from Swindon for Europe went along to the “Stop the US Trade deal” protest held in London on Saturday 24th Sept 2020 (https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/2020/oct/24/stop-us-trade-deal-protests-take-place-around-uk), to protest against any attempt to accept lower quality food, medicines, or anything else via a US trade deal. This isn’t a case of being anti-American, but instead …
PRESS RELEASE Today Devizes for Europe launched “Say #YES2ARealDeal” campaign. Now that the UK has left the European Union, we need to take action to secure our future relations with Europe and avoid a catastrophic ‘no deal’ crash-out. The UK has entered the final phase of negotiations with the EU. Talks are not just about …
Whenever we can we’ve been out at Wood Street in Old Town (Swindon) to raise awareness of the disaster that could unfold for food in the UK post-brexit. After talking to people in the street, the responses we get on this mostly depend on how we frame the question. If we frame this “patriotically”, and …
