WITH more than 850 signatures now on their petition the Warrington 4 Brexit Group is set to meet Warrington South MP Faisal Rashid next Friday (March 1) to discuss Brexit policy.
The announcement comes following a visit On Saturday morning by group members to Mr. Rashid’s constituency office in Warrington town centre to present the first batch of signatures and comments of the group’s petition, which calls on local constituency MPs to honour the Labour manifesto pledge made at the 2017 General Election to respect the result of the 2016 Referendum which was to leave the EU.
Mr Rashid has accepted an invitation to meet with the group.
Meanwhile members of Warrington 4 Brexit also visited the office of the Warrington North MP, Helen Jones, to present the petition, but so far Ms. Jones has declined to meet the group to discuss Brexit policy.
So far the petition comprises nearly 850 signatures which were collected in just three 2-hour sessions at Warrington 4 Brexit’s weekend rallies at the Skittles, along with digital signatures and comments in an online version.
The Group’s spokesperson said:“Although we only recently started the petition, we thought it was important to present the first batch of signatures and comments today, prior to the key debate in Parliament next Wednesday 27th February, when the Cooper amendment will be voted on again, which seeks to force the Government to request an extension of Article 50 and take ‘no-deal’ off the table.”
The spokesperson added: “We wish to remind our MPs that they stood on a Labour manifesto which not only pledged to accept the Referendum vote to leave the EU, but also confirmed this would mean an end to Freedom of Movement.”
Warrington 4 Brexit claim the majority view of the people signing their petition is best summed up in the following comment left on the online version: “I totally support Warrington 4 Brexit’s
determination that their representatives in parliament should honour the referendum result and ensure Britain leaves the EU and all its institutions on 29th March.”
Warrington4Brexit will continue gaining more signatures.
Warrington residents may sign the petition online at:
https://www.change.org/p/warrington-s-2-mps-labour-members-of-warringtonborough-council-honour-labour-s-manifesto-pledge-to-respect-the-referendum-result
Supporters who wish to join Warrington4Brexit are invited to visit their Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/Warrington4Brexit and/or come to their meetings at Woolston Social Club (formerly Woolston British Legion), 50 Manchester Road, WA1 4AD, every Thursday evening from 7.15 pm to 9.15 pm.
Members outside the offices of Helen Jones MP
5 Comments
Warrington were wrong to vote leave.
And your reason being?
Err the Eu is yet another failed institution.just look at its inability to even sign off its own accounts ? It is proven incapable of creating and or running a budget. It is highly undemocratic and incredibly innefficient. Why on earth would we continue to support yet another tier of expensive, corporately corrupt, political self interest and gross incompetence ?
The two main political parties in 2017 were voted in on a manifesto of respecting the democratic decision to Leave the EU, they then went on by 480 MPs to trigger article 50. We are by law, supposed to leave the EU by the 29th March 2019. Its is good that this group, hold to account our MPs that stood on that very manifesto to be elected. The petition handed in hopefully will remind our MPs of that pledge. If Warrington’s vote of 2016 to Leave the EU is undermined as Warrington voted to leave by 62,487. The what of democracy? A so called peoples vote is a losers vote, what happens if we do have another referendum and remain win by 52 to 48 per cent, do we have another, best of three, four? it will make democracy a sham. We were told also in 2016, that we will leave the single market and customs union by both sides. We did not vote to have a deal, we voted to LEAVE
With circa 650 MPs being involved in the process and no doubt 650 variations on every which way the plan should go – oops what plan – should such a complex deal have been left in the ‘safe – competent hands of MPs’ and their puppeteers/masters. As Harold Wilson said a ‘Week is a long time in politics’ and the last seven days have certainly proved that point – not to worry we have a very long 4 weeks to and no doubt a lot more cloak and dagger stuff and resignations.