Cross Party Groups to Maintain Close Relationship to Europe
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 …
Swindon for Europe’s street team have been hitting Wood Street again (in Old Town, Swindon), campaigning to raise awareness on the government’s lack of action around the report on Russian interference in the EU referendum, more generally in British politics. This isn’t just about Europe, it’s about what sort of democracy we want to live …
Divide and conquer, so said Julius Caesar. A well known phrase, and yet it seems the government haven’t understood that it can be used against us as well as by us. The UK is currently facing two mammoth challenges:– the worst pandemic in living memory: a huge logistical and public health problem– potential No-Deal brexit, …
Stephen Stacey from Devizes for EU published an article in the online newspaper Yorkshire Bylines whose message applies as much to Wiltshire as it does to Yorkshire. Reproduced here by kind permission of the author. The contrast between what we were promised during the referendum and what the government is doing now couldn’t be starker. In the …
Danny Kruger’s reply is very welcome. In it there’s good news and bad news; there are opinions on which we may have to agree to differ; and there are two fundamental factual errors. First: the good news – the very good news, in fact. Mr Kruger recognises that “right now we all need to focus …
