This week in Brexitland, July 4, 2024
Forget about the polls or what you’ve heard before today. Nothing changes unless you get out and vote yourself. What are you waiting for?
You’ve all read the stories. About how Labour are on course for a massive majority. The Tories could be crushed so badly, they don’t even get to form the official opposition. Yet all of that is theoretical, nothing more, until everyone votes. That’s an obvious thing to say, but worth pointing out for those of you reading who think this general election is already done and dusted.
About 20% of the electorate have voted already via post. Everyone else’s vote is yet to come as of the publication of this article. The future has yet to be decided. You have your own part in shaping what is to come. But only if you get out and vote today.
What’s on the table couldn’t be more pertinent for pro-Europeans. The Tories can be punished for Brexit in a manner that would change the discussion around the topic. The Lib Dems could be the official opposition, being able to put constant pressure on a Labour government to pivot towards rejoin. The media will change as well if that happens, with many more pro-Europeans becoming present in the papers and on the airwaves, just by dint of the make up of the House of Commons. We could probably rejoin in under ten years from now if everything works out the way the polls are telling us.
Again, only if you vote. Don’t leave it to others. Every vote counts. Trust me, it does. In the 2017 general election, the seat of North East Fife was won by the SNP over the Lib Dems by a mere two votes. That means if one person in the constituency had voted Lib Dem instead of voting SNP, it would have been a tie. The Lib Dems could have won the seat on the toss of a coin. If a couple that voted SNP in the seat had voted Lib Dem instead, the seat would have gone to the Liberal Democrats. Think about this if you’re debating whether to vote or not: your vote could decide who wins and who doesn’t.
Elections like this are rare. When there is a genuine chance to change the way politics will be done in Britain for decades to come. Echoes of this election could be felt for the next century. The combination of the unpopularity of the Conservative party, the Reform surge with Farage, the Lib Dem and Labour votes complimenting each other in most places, is a once in a lifetime event.
Although there has been conspiracy of silence on the topic of Brexit, your vote can change all that from here on out. You have a chance to redraw the British political map in a way that could see us rejoining sooner than anyone, myself included, thought possible. Put aside your annoyance at Starmer’s Brexit policy, or being upset at what the Lib Dems did on tuition fees a decade and a half ago. If you want to rejoin, this is possibly the biggest electoral event that will ever happen - and I include another EU referendum in that equation.
Again, this is only if you vote. It comes down to each and every one of you reading this. Nothing happens unless you make it happen. Get down to the polling booth now and participate in changing the politics of your country forever.
Thanks for reading. Please vote and please subscribe to this Substack if you haven’t already, and next time you hear from me here, we’ll be in new political world, however things shake out.
The Knuckle Draggers of REFUK get to fill a taxi of MP's maybe. according to polls? I doubt they will actually get more than 3, a back seat's worth. I bet on them getting no more than 4.. These latest versions of the kippersUK will be found out for being lazy so and so's, hoovering up expenses and bungs or mis-spending allowances, just as they did in the EU parliament over two decades, refusing to do representative work and will find committee work too technical and taxing for them, as in the EU. Even voting will be too much of stretch. They will have the worst record as they did in Brussels.
There will be a bit of populist grandstanding for Youtube, Talk TV & GB News, if the latter two survive much longer and that will be the REFUK's big floppy contribution. If Farage is going to be allowed to take over the Tories, it would be as a rump, contracting into a racist dog whistle & little ingerlunder corner
Farage was well known at school as a Nazi thinker and baiter of other students who happened to be jewish. He supports AFD, who go back to the Nazis and National Rally (Le Pen) who trace back to the Vichy government nazi collaborators, who turned in Jewish people to their torture and deaths.
None of these fascists will make competent administrators and would be incredibly damaging and divisive, possibly causing civil war. If they ever achieve power, god forbid, that will be the start of their problems and the beginning of the end of them, unless they create dictatorships of course, a real threat.
Now Farridge supports Trump, who openly wishes to set up a partial dictatorship in USA and who sucks up to the World’s authoritarian dictators.
Why do people keep falling for one populist scam after another, instead of seeing all of them for what they are.
Ignoring the vote, I’m more intrigued with the issue of Europe. There may be many good economic, and even social, reasons for rejoining the EU, but is there not a risk of wanting to join a Europe that no longer exists. If the UK, or bits of it, rejoin it will be as part of another different Europe. I don’t see any debate about wanting to align, or not, to what the EU might be like in 10 years time. Also I’m not sure the average European really wants the UK back. And this is certainly true if what they see is just a half-hearted economic “need” rather than a full-blooded “want”. And that “want” has to start now.