Growing Support for an EU referendum

I was leafleting for another European referendum outside the Queens Park Farmers' market this morning.  As always people were very friendly.  I really think opinion is shifting now that a definite deal is on the tble and people can see how far it is from what they were promised during the campaign.  Cllr Neil Nerva, who was also there, will be moving a motion tomorrow to back the new referendum on the terms of the deal.

I understand the feelings of people who just want the whole thing to be over, but the truth is accepting Theresa May's deal would just move us into another phase of the same thing.  We would go into another time limited transition period except amazingly this one can only be ended by a joint UK/EU decision.  The clock would be ticking and Brussels could once again force concessions whether over more payments, Gibraltar, fisheries or anything else that EU members decided to throw in the pot.

The only way to extract ourselves from an endless negotiations over the terms of Brexit is to stop the process by remaining as an EU member.  Leaving in any form will take years just as joining took years and the slow dissolution of Commonwealth bonds took years.

That is simply reality.