The Day After The Brexit Vote – Defend All migrants. On Friday twenty fourth June 2016 virtually half the nation woke as much as hear with shock and a few measure of disbelief to listen to the information {that a} small majority had voted in favour of leaving Europe.
In any smart democracy the results of 52% to 48% in an advisory referendum wouldn’t have been adequate to trigger such a serious constitutional change, however Prime Minister David Cameron had stupidly promised to abide by the end result and so we have been now en path to Brexit.
Cameron had been assured that he would win the referendum with a vote to stay however he had severely underestimated the depths of mendacity and misrepresentation that the Depart marketing campaign would sink to, with among the main figures prone to make big private earnings from the break.
Brexit after all needn’t have been the foremost catastrophe it has been. We might have retained a a lot nearer relationship with Europe, our largest buying and selling accomplice. It wanted the entire incompetence of Boris Johnson to get us the worst of all offers, not least as a result of he and his negotiators merely didn’t perceive what negotiation meant, with the politicians largely limiting themselves to creating clearly not possible calls for after which blaming Europe.
I don’t anticipate we are going to return to Europe throughout my lifetime, however I hope the following authorities will make some smart strikes to revive {our relationships}, though relatively avoiding the topic within the present election marketing campaign. However certainly we can’t proceed being unable to employees our care and medical sectors and with crops rotting unpicked on the fields. And we do want at the very least a few of these plumbers, electricians and different tradesmen.
The Depart marketing campaign reached new lows with issues like that £350 million on the aspect of a bus, which everybody who made the slightest investigation knew was a lie. However the media unfold it round with some suggesting it was maybe not right, whereas all ought to have been deriding it as nonsense. And it was a determine that caught in lots of peoples’ minds.
Immigration was a problem that each side failed on – and at instances Stay appeared decided to try to outflank Depart on the precise suggesting racist insurance policies. Migrants have been attacked and scapegoated not solely by each Stay and Depart campaigns however by all our mainstream events and media over greater than 20 years, stoking up hatred by insisting immigrants are a “drawback”.
Migration has been and can stay important to the expansion of our financial system, in addition to enriching our cultural life. Stroll by way of our excessive streets or web page by way of the TV schedules and cross out the immigrants and the descendants of post-war immigration and what you’ll be left could be restricted and relatively boring.
Senior Conservatives are even proposing that we should always go away the European Conference on Human Rights to allow them to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, and though Labour has mentioned it is going to finish this coverage it has not but put ahead plans for secure routes for asylum seekers.
The protest on twenty fourth June by anarchists and socialists in opposition to racism and fascist violence had been some deliberate weeks prematurely, known as by Motion for Justice, rs21, London Antifascists and Jewdas, and supported by different teams together with Brick Lane Debates, Nationwide Marketing campaign Towards Charges and Cuts (NCAFC), Proper to Stay, Radical Meeting, Clapton Ultras, the Antiuniversity, English collective of prostitutes, intercourse employees open college, lesbians and gays assist the migrants, Razem Londyn, London Anarchist Federation, Kent anti-racist community, dywizjon 161, colectivo anticapitalista Londres and Plan C London in addition to others who introduced banners and lots of people.
A digital camera group of three working for a right-wing US web site arrived and tried to impress teams within the crowd with foolish questions and showing to brag over the Brexit choice. Ultimately police stepped in to calm issues and made certain the group left.
After a lot of speeches the protesters set off to march on a roundabout route by way of the east of the town on their technique to protest outdoors Information Worldwide in Southwark. However I feel they veered off track every time it appeared seemingly that the big police presence may attempt to kettle them. Ultimately I acquired fed up with strolling and went dwelling.
Extra on the protest with many extra footage on My London Diary: Defend All Migrants.
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