Brexit: There May Be Trouble Ahead
LOCAL PARTY MEMBER, ALISTAIR TINTO shares his personal thoughts on the outcome of the EU Referendum.
How depressing it was to wake on Friday morning and learn that the nightmare of a vote in favour of Brexit had actually happened!
Rude awakening: UK votes to leave EU
The tragedy is that many of the people who voted for Brexit weren’t really voting for Brexit at all. The poor and disadvantaged, those who have been left behind by the effects of austerity economics, those whom the Labour Party has lost touch with, those who don’t have decent housing, those earning low wages, those on zero hours contracts, those whose kids’ schools are overcrowded, those whose accident and emergency units are in crisis,
Perhaps people thought it was immigration that caused every problem in our society. Perhaps it was frustration with the rich elite who have been getting steadily richer as wages have been frozen year on year. People thought voting out would solve the problem. It will not. Boris Johnson won’t care any more about people than David Cameron and George Osborne ever did.
Britain has become smaller, weaker and more divided as a result of this vote. Xenophobia, bordering on racism, has now been licensed and is becoming accepted in mainstream discourse. The sad thing is that, as it starts to unfold, it is becoming obvious what a terrible mistake has been made. Now virtually unstoppable. It’s a Greek tragedy unfolding on a national and international scale.
The world has now become more fractured and more dangerous. I feel sorry for all the young people, the majority of whom voted against this idiocy because they know that the world is better together than apart: they are going to have to live with the consequences.
Alastair Tinto is the Publicity Officer for Tamar Valley Labour Party
Tamar Valley Labour Party encourages members and supporters to write to us with their contributions for publication on this blog.
Your Local Campaign Events on Polling Day, Thursday June 23rd
EU Referendum
23 June 2016
Plymouth Labour HQ, Lockyer Hall, Alfred Street, Plymouth, PL1 2RP
07:00 – 22:00
To find our more click here
Polling Day- Plymouth
23 June 2016
Locations Across Plymouth, Lockyer Hall, 1 Alfred Street, Plymouth, PL1 2RP
10:00 – 22:00
We will be canvassing voters across Plymouth to encourage them to vote remain. Join us throughout the day for door-knocking and phone canvassing – don’t worry if you’ve never done it before, we will provide training!
https://events.labour.org.uk/results?postcode=PL18%209QG&date=2016-06-23&distance=50
Leave Your Message of Condolence for Jo Cox, MP
Jo Cox, Labour Member of Parliament for the Batley and Spen constituency 1974 – 2016
FOLLOWING THE terrible death of Jo Cox, Labour MP for Batley and Spen, we’re inviting people to leave messages of condolence, support, and solidarity for Jo’s family, friends and colleagues.
Messages can be left here:
Party & Trade Union Leaders Stand United: for Workers’ Rights & Jobs – Vote Remain on 23 June
Labour leaders & trade union leaders stand united: for workers’ rights & jobs we must vote Remain on 23 June
GREAT TO SEE the Party united. We urge all members to do the same and get behind the Labour campaign to remain IN Europe.
If you would like to read the latest news about the Labour Party and our campaign to remain IN Europe click here.
Tamar Valley Labour Goes Live on Twitter
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As part of our campaigning activities to raise awareness of the issues that affect us in Cornwall, we have now gone live on Twitter the punchy message service where you can share news and generate interest in any topic.
In the first day we attracted 15 like-minded souls as Twitter followers.
You can join in and get news updates by setting up your own account and following us. Or you can just take a look at what is being posted.
Our twitter feed is located here:
https://twitter.com/LabourTamar
Happy tweeting.
10 Things YOU Can Do to Help Save YOUR COUNTRY!
AS THE EUROPEAN REFERENDUM campaign steps up a gear and enters its final stages, there is still a great deal that we can do to promote the benefits of staying in Europe. Our goal is to ensure that the UK will remain at the heart of the EU acting in Britain’s best interest, taking forward our positive agenda for reform.
At this weeks Branch meeting it was agreed that all members and supporters can assist the campaign by:
- Leafletting. Meet up in with others in Gunnislake Car Park (opposite the Doctor’s Surgery) this Saturday June 11th 2016 @ 10.00am leafletting homes in the locality. We will bring the leaflets for distribution.
- Publicity – put up a Labour IN poster in your window, your car or anywhere you think somebody will see it.
- Register too vote. Make sure your friends and family are all registered to vote (deadline midnight 9th June 2016) https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote.
- Campaign – write a letter in support of the UK remaining in Europe to the East Cornwall Times of no more than 200 words . Please contact Alistair Tinto, Publicity Officer (alastair.tinto@virgin.net) who is coordinating submissions. This should be done by the end of this week for publication next week.
- Donate – make a donation to the Labour IN Europe Campaign, who are less well funded than the opposition at this moment in time. Every penny counts towards making our voice felt and publicising this vitally important issue.
- Spread the word – share this article and any other positive news on your Facebook or Social Media account.
- Help others to vote – offer to give a lift to anybody you know may have difficulties getting to the polling station.
- Remind people you know to Vote IN and not to forget to vote.
- Persuade – talk to your friends and family and help them to understand the positive aspects of our country remaining a member of the EU.
- Vote – make sure you vote on the 23rd June!
If you would like more information on the campaign or would be willing to help delivering leaflets please contact us for information. Also ensure that you share this post with your friends on social media (Facebook / Twitter etc) to spread the word.
Voter Registration Deadline Extended Until Midnight Tomorrow (9th June 2016)
Voter registration deadline extended until tomorrow at midnight, 9th June 2016.
Register online here https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote …
Historic Corbyn Visit Boosts Cornish Britain IN Europe Campaign
Photo credit: Martin Menear
THE CORNISH ARM of the campaign for the UK remaining in the EU received a massive boost from Labour Leader, Jeremy Corbyn who spoke at a Labour IN rally on 4th June in Newquay.
The trip to Cornwall was the first time in 20 years a serving Labour Party Leader has visited the County. In his speech, Mr Corbyn said: “We know that the European Union is very far from perfect, but it has brought huge investment into Cornwall, it has helped clean up Cornwall’s beaches and brought jobs and workers’ rights.”
Jeremy Corbyn, who, according to the regional press, is proving to be a magnet for recruiting new Labour members in Cornwall, distilled his arguments for staying IN Europe into a few points:
- We can only deal with environmental issues through cooperation across national borders
- We won’t solve the refugee crisis with barbed wire. We must work across Europe to share & offer the hand of humanity
- We should transform our energy industry and create high tech jobs in green energy
- We must not export pollution. We must act across national boundaries to protect biodiversity
- The EU protects employment rights especially for women, part time workers and the disabled. The Tories want to rip up workers’ rights
Staying in the EU offers a lifeline to many in Cornwall through the funding of many infrastructure and institutional projects via the European Social, Regional Development and Agricultural Development funds. Access to these funds contributes hundreds of millions of pounds towards initiatives in Cornwall designed to increase and maintain employment opportunities for Cornish residents and through funding the development of local institutions, infrastructure and businesses.
Corbyn’s message was that Britain needed to vote to remain in the European Union on June 23 – to protect jobs, workers’ rights and environmental standards, such as the clean bathing waters which are vital to Cornwall’s tourism industry.
If you would like more information on the campaign or would be willing to help delivering leaflets please contact us for information. Also ensure that you share this post with your friends on social media (Facebook / Twitter etc) to spread the word.
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