I am standing for election to the LME national committee in the London region.
I’ve been a member of the LME for many years.
It’s interesting that over the last couple of weeks it seems that even the government recognises that we need a better trade agreement with the European Union and that the “reset” is not going well.
Mood is not enough.
The simplest and most complete relationship is of course full membership which I support. We need to rejoin.
Brexit is a mistake and more and more people realise this.
But the UK cannot rejoin the European Union until it is ready to be good citizens, this will not happen without Labour commitment and leadership.
If elected I will seek to bring the LME to a position where it campaigns to rejoin the single market in preparation for rejoining the European Union and calls on the Party to commit to full membership of the EU and to argue for rejoining as good citizens.
This Labour government has the impossible policy of seeking to Fix Brexit; this is not possible. The Labour Government’s cherry-picking approach is making little headway and the claim that they will not sign deals not in the interests of the British people while pursuing a topic by topic approach makes achieving deals at speed exceedingly hard and provokes resistance in the European Union and its member states.
Labour needs to commit to rejoining when the time is right, commit to joining the single market as soon as possible i.e. this parliament and if elected to the National Committee, I will do my best to see that the LME plays a role in bringing Labour to these positions.
That’s what I want to do, and that’s why I want to be on the committee as I think my views will make a difference however I’m a lifelong IT worker having worked in development, operations, and policy, finishing with time in privacy compliance. I also served on committees running the predecessor to the EU’s Horizon Europe programme. These skills and experience might be useful to the committee and organisation.
I am on the national committee of Another Europe, and work with Citizens Takeover Europe. I am a Labour Party member in Lewisham North.
The vote is by a preferential voting system, I’d ask for your first preference and to transfer to anyone else who argues that we need to rejoin.
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