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No trust in Tories to negotiate a Brexit deal – Popular vote needed to hold them to account
Editorial
The referendum on EU membership was a dangerous tactic in a bloody Tory party faction fight. Cameron launched it to defeat the Brexiteers in his party once and for all, but instead they won.
No More Austerity – No To Racism – Tories Must Go: Demonstrate Sat 16 July
After the referendum unite to demand…
No More Austerity – No To Racism – Tories Must Go
Demonstrate: Saturday 16 July 2016
Assemble 12pm, BBC HQ, Portland Place, London W1
Abortion Rights’ screening of Vessel Friday 8 July
Abortion Rights is hosting a screening of Vessel on Friday (8 July) at Genesis Cinema, Mile End, London.
With a prestigious panel of speakers including:
Dr Rebecca Gomperts – founder of Women on Waves and Women on Web, the subject of the documentary
Mara Clarke from Abortion Support Network
There should be a new referendum when the real terms for Brexit are known
By Jane West
On Thursday 23 June the electorate in Britain voted narrowly – by fewer than 1.3m votes, that is less than 2 per cent of the population – for a lie. They voted for the lie that if Britain came out of the EU it could maintain all the benefits of EU membership – free trade in Europe, the leading role of London, all the protections that came with EU legislation for human rights, the environment, for working conditions etc – without the downsides. These downsides were presented as ‘uncontrolled immigration’, loss of ‘sovereignty’ and a subsidy to the EU that could otherwise be spent on the NHS.
Migration is an economic benefit
The leadership of the Leave campaign in the UK’s EU referendum has focussed its fight on whipping up hostility to immigration and encouraged a reactionary political climate. It’s main argument, that immigration lowers living standards, is not true, but this is not being challenged by the Cameron leadership of the Remain campaign.
The article below, by Michael Burke, explaining why migration raises living standards, was initially published by Socialist Economic Bulletin.