Comments on: No2EU campaign says ‘our MEPs won’t take up seats’ http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2009/03/26/no2eu-campaign-says-%e2%80%98our-meps-won%e2%80%99t-take-up-seats%e2%80%99/ News, features and comment from Britain's left-wing magazine Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:32:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Cllr Steve Radford http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2009/03/26/no2eu-campaign-says-%e2%80%98our-meps-won%e2%80%99t-take-up-seats%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-8465 Cllr Steve Radford Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:07:24 +0000 http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2009/03/26/no2eu-campaign-says-%e2%80%98our-meps-won%e2%80%99t-take-up-seats%e2%80%99/#comment-8465 Its a nosense to suggest No2EU is about splitting the Labour Vote in favour of other parties.The fact is millions of British people have contempt for the EU and want progressive opposition. Votes belong to the people not to an arrogant party Cllr Steve Radford Liberal Party Its a nosense to suggest No2EU is about splitting the Labour Vote in favour of other parties.The fact is millions of British people have contempt for the EU and want progressive opposition. Votes belong to the people not to an arrogant party

Cllr Steve Radford Liberal Party

]]> By: Andrew Walton http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2009/03/26/no2eu-campaign-says-%e2%80%98our-meps-won%e2%80%99t-take-up-seats%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-8437 Andrew Walton Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:37:14 +0000 http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2009/03/26/no2eu-campaign-says-%e2%80%98our-meps-won%e2%80%99t-take-up-seats%e2%80%99/#comment-8437 A growing number of people are disillusioned with mainstream politics. For example, the scandal over MP's expenses shows that mainstream parties are completely out of touch with the realities of life for the working-class. Votes for the No2EU Yes to Democracy campaign won't come mostly from New Labour supporters - they will come from fed up voters looking for a protest vote. The campaign provides a progressive alternative to voting for the far right. In 1906, the RMT helped set up Labour as a socialist voice in Parliament to represent ordinary people. Now we need a new political voice, since there is in reality no difference between any of the three main parties. We need to support this campaign - if it takes off it could provide a platform for the vast majority of the population who are have been disenfranchised by Labour selling out. A growing number of people are disillusioned with mainstream politics. For example, the scandal over MP’s expenses shows that mainstream parties are completely out of touch with the realities of life for the working-class.

Votes for the No2EU Yes to Democracy campaign won’t come mostly from New Labour supporters – they will come from fed up voters looking for a protest vote. The campaign provides a progressive alternative to voting for the far right.

In 1906, the RMT helped set up Labour as a socialist voice in Parliament to represent ordinary people. Now we need a new political voice, since there is in reality no difference between any of the three main parties. We need to support this campaign – if it takes off it could provide a platform for the vast majority of the population who are have been disenfranchised by Labour selling out.

]]> By: Durotrigan http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2009/03/26/no2eu-campaign-says-%e2%80%98our-meps-won%e2%80%99t-take-up-seats%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-8298 Durotrigan Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:38:38 +0000 http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2009/03/26/no2eu-campaign-says-%e2%80%98our-meps-won%e2%80%99t-take-up-seats%e2%80%99/#comment-8298 Excuse me for saying this, but this simply looks like a far-left attempt to take votes directly from the BNP by claiming to be against the EU. Of course it won't help the BNP, for as you very well know (unless you're really not very bright) this project has been specifically fashioned to attract anti-EU votes which would otherwise have gone straight to the BNP. A vote for No2EU will in reality be a vote in favour of the loss of national sovereignty and total absorption into the EU superstate. After all, that's what Communists and Socialists strive for, isn't it? An end to nations? 'Tis a pity that this delusion leads not to a utopia of equality and tolerance, but opens the doors to a new global caliphate, where Communists and Socialists would share the fate of their ideological kin in post-revolutionary (it ought to be post-reaction, but post-revolutionary is the accepted term in this case)Iran. Excuse me for saying this, but this simply looks like a far-left attempt to take votes directly from the BNP by claiming to be against the EU. Of course it won’t help the BNP, for as you very well know (unless you’re really not very bright) this project has been specifically fashioned to attract anti-EU votes which would otherwise have gone straight to the BNP.

A vote for No2EU will in reality be a vote in favour of the loss of national sovereignty and total absorption into the EU superstate. After all, that’s what Communists and Socialists strive for, isn’t it? An end to nations? ‘Tis a pity that this delusion leads not to a utopia of equality and tolerance, but opens the doors to a new global caliphate, where Communists and Socialists would share the fate of their ideological kin in post-revolutionary (it ought to be post-reaction, but post-revolutionary is the accepted term in this case)Iran.

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