The upcoming General Election is going to be a momentous one for Britain.
We have been gifted a new opportunity to put the brakes on the Brexit process - but it is only going to work if remainers act sensibly and in a coordinated way.
This march is going to be huge and it has to be huge. We want it to be bigger than the March 2019 one and to bring London to a standstill on the day. Tell everyone you know about it, because the media coverage has been fairly patchy so far.
If you’d like to join Slough for Europe and the other groups that make up Berkshire for Europe on the journey to London and/or during the march, here are the meeting points and suggested timings.
EU elections are now almost certain to happen.
They use a version of Proportional Representation known as the D'Hondt Method.
I won't try and re-explain it here, as there are already various good explanations available such as this one.
I've made a google spreadsheet partly based on some other ones I found online, to let people play around with different voting patterns and see how it affects the results.
This march is going to be huge and it has to be huge. We want it to be bigger than the October 2018 one and top bring London to a standstill on the day. Tell everyone you know about it, because the media coverage has been fairly patchy so far.
If you’d like to join Slough for Europe and the other groups that make up Berkshire for Europe on the journey to London and/or during the march, here are the meeting points and suggested timings:
Bracknell MP Dr Phillip Lee has written a piece on Brexit, in particular why he thinks that Slough voted to Leave in 2016.
Originally a doctor before becoming an MP, he still does shifts in a surgery in Slough every couple of weeks.
He talks about how many people he has noticed who say they would now vote remain, even though they originally voted Leave.
As we mentioned in an earlier post, this Saturday is a National Day of Action for the People's Vote campaign.
As a result of this, there are a lot of events on in the local area. Even if you aren't in Slough, try and drop by at one of the other events and offer some support to them however briefly.
Since the recent decision to resign his cabinet role over Brexit, Dr Phillip Lee is coming under pressure from a minority of his constituents to resign his position.
If he truly believes that his constituents back him on his position, then he should test that by standing down from Parliament and triggering a by-election.
Just down the road in Bracknell, their Conservative MP Dr Phillip Lee has caused a stir in the media by resigning from the government over Brexit. Unlike some other resignations that have taken place previously, this one is very much for the right reasons.
In his own words:
The main reason for my taking this decision now is the Brexit process and the Government’s wish to limit Parliament’s role in contributing to the final outcome in a vote that takes place today.
