Today is Europe Day

Today is Europe Day.

Europe Day is a day which celebrates peace and unity in Europe on 5th May by the Council of Europe and on 9th May by the European Union.

The first recognition of Europe Day was by the Council of Europe and was introduced in 1964. The European Union later started to celebrate its own Europe Day in commemoration of the 1950 Schuman Declaration, leading it to be referred to by some as "Schuman Day" or "Day of the united Europe".

For many people in our country, working in a peaceful co-operative partnership with our friends in Europe remains very important.

Let’s never forget that only 37% of the electorate voted for Brexit and many of those either did not understand the implications due to the failure and refusal to explain them or were taken in by the lies, deception or economy with the truth deliberately peddled by the "Leave" campaign.

Let's not forget that opinion polls following the 2016 referendum, until our eventual departure from the EU and since that departure have consistently showed a growing "remain" view. The UK Government has blindly pushed on with its ill-informed and ill-judged project to permanently damage the UK.

The UK now sits in glorious isolation as an island in the Atlantic, located lost at sea somewhere geographically and geopolitically between the US and the EU, our former strategic partners. 

There are dark clouds above the “sunlit uplands” that we were promised as the impacts for our economy and society grow by the day.

Brexit is a folly, an absurdity, an aberration …. but regretfully it has happened.

 

Brexit, as we are discovering every day, has no advantages and just huge disadvantages …. lots of them.

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Brexit is a catastrophe which will affect the lives of millions and it is already destroying businesses and livelihoods.

 

Brexit is going to set our nation back decades.

A small band of flag-waving Brexiteer fanatics are wholly responsible for the decline and potential break up of our nation.

Never mind, at least for now and until common sense prevails and the UK rejoins the EU and the European family, flying the Union Jack at every opportunity will make us all feel so much better and allow us to move on from the worst foreign policy decision in our nation’s modern history.

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