By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--September 25, 2018
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If talks with the EU fail or parliament rejects a deal May brings back, Labour would firstly seek a new general election. If there is no possibility for one, Labour “must support all options remaining on the table, including campaigning for a public vote”, the motion says. Starmer said a meeting of party officials on Sunday had agreed that any second vote could allow for Britons to vote to stay in the EU after all. That seemed to contradict the view expressed by the party’s finance spokesman, who has said a vote should be on how to leave the EU, not whether to do so. “The question that would be asked was left open because we don’t yet know the circumstance we’ll find ourselves in,” Starmer said. “The meeting on Sunday was very clear that the question would be wide enough to encompass the option of remain. Nothing is being ruled out, including the option of remain.”
The government’s Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab said on Monday that Labour’s “nonsense” about a second referendum would encourage the EU to offer a “lousy” deal and most people in Britain just wanted politicians to get on with Brexit. “Labour seem determined to take us all back to square one by rejecting a deal out of hand then trying to delay Brexit and re-run the referendum,” junior Brexit minister Robin Walker said in a statement. “Labour promised to respect the referendum result, but are just playing political games and trying to frustrate it.”Britain’s voters already had the chance to vote to remain, and they rejected it. They don’t like the way the EU compromises the UK’s sovereignty – particularly in the issue of immigration – and Britain was never on board with the euro as its currency, opting throughout the EU’s existence to remain with the British pound. The problem with Brexit is not the decision to pursue it. It’s the failure of politicians to come up with a way to implement it. Going back to the voters now and asking them to let Britain remain in the EU after all is basically politicians admitting that they hadn’t been able to do their job in carrying out the will of the people – or didn’t really want to so they didn’t try very hard.
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