As the remain camp tries to pick up the pieces after the EU referendum result, what can ordinary people do to make things better? Here’s a handful of ideas to get started

4 July 2016

This is taken from a Guardian article - read the rest of it here

 

Insist upon a snap general election as a matter of common sense

Not necessarily tomorrow, but a long time before 2020. It may seem obvious to you that no government could lumber on to such a monumental journey in such disarray; that a party whose leader has resigned because he didn’t want to do the hard stuff has neither the capacity nor the legitimacy to invoke article 50 without going back to the country. It seems to me as plain as day that a government in which both sides openly admit to not having a plan cannot simply blunder on without one. Yet already, government officials are trying to create their own common sense, in which a general election would be another distraction we can’t afford, and they’ll marshal every fresh catastrophe – expect many – to shore up this point. Resist it: resist it hard, with public meetings and demonstrations; resist it soft, in every conversation, every email, in every workplace, over every drink. Assume that a general election is essential; proceed as though it is a foregone conclusion.

 

And you could join the Greens - come on in, the water's lovely






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