THREAD - all #FBPE Remainers: @jeremycorbyn will not stop Brexit. Here’s his full voting record AGAINST the EU, all the way back to 1974:
1) After Farage pulled his Road to Damascus, Corbyn supporters are telling folk the only way now to stop Brexit is by voting Corbyn. Wrong:
1) After Farage pulled his Road to Damascus, Corbyn supporters are telling folk the only way now to stop Brexit is by voting Corbyn. Wrong:
2) Jeremy Corbyn voted for Britain to leave the European Economic Community (EEC) in the 1975 European referendum https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-politics-labour-corbyn/labours-corbyn-who-voted-no-in-1975-raises-brexit-fears-idUKKCN0RB1IK20150911">https://uk.reuters.com/article/u...
3) @jeremycorbyn opposed the creation of the European Union (EU) under the Maastricht Treaty – speaking ( https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=1993-05-20a.389.4)">https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/... & voting ( https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/oliver-huitson/jeremy-corbyn-eu_b_9689982.html">https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/oliver-hu... ) against it in Parliament in 1993
4) During the 2016 referendum campaign, Left Leave highlighted repeated speeches he made in Parliament opposing Europe during 1993 https://web.archive.org/web/20180107195608/http://www.leftleave.org/jeremy-corbyn-on-the-european-union/">https://web.archive.org/web/20180...
5) Jeremy Corbyn voted against the Lisbon Treaty on more than one occasion in Parliament in 2008 https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10133/jeremy_corbyn/islington_north/divisions?policy=1065">https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10133/...
6) In 2010, Jeremy Corbyn voted against the creation of the European Union’s diplomatic service https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2010-07-14-25-commons/mp/10133">https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions...
7) Jeremy Corbyn voted for a referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU in 2011 (breaking the Labour whip to do so) https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-politics-labour-corbyn/labours-corbyn-who-voted-no-in-1975-raises-brexit-fears-idUKKCN0RB1IK20150911">https://uk.reuters.com/article/u...
8 ) In 2011 Corbyn also opposed the creation of the EU’s European Stability Mechanism, which helps members of the Euro in financial difficulties https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2011-03-23-236-commons/mp/10133">https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions...
This vote is a good example of how Corbyn votes with hardcore Euro-sceptics. Only 26 other MPs joined him in voting against, and in their number are the likes of right-wing Euro-sceptics such as Peter Bone, Douglas Carswell, Bill Cash, Ian Paisley Junior and John Redwood
9) In 2016 Corbyn’s old left-wing ally Tariq Ali said he was sure if Corbyn was not Labour leader he would be campaigning for Britain to leave the EU, whilst his brother Piers Corbyn also said Corbyn was privately opposed to UK membership of the EU https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-would-be-campaigning-for-brexit-if-he-was-not-labour-leader-says-long-time-ally-tariq-a7032736.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p...
10) Jeremy Corbyn went on holiday ( https://www.markpack.org.uk/148330/came-crunch-jeremy-corbyn-chose-holiday-fighting-constitutents/">https://www.markpack.org.uk/148330/ca... ) during the 2016 referendum campaign and his office staff consistently undermined the Remain campaign https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/26/corbyn-must-resign-inadequate-leader-betrayal">https://www.theguardian.com/commentis...
11) Corbyn refused to attend a key Remain campaign launch ( https://www.markpack.org.uk/141838/jeremy-corbyn-failed-back-remain/">https://www.markpack.org.uk/141838/je... ) and also attacked government ministers for publicising the Remain case, saying they should also have promoted arguments in favour of Leave vote https://www.politicshome.com/news/europe/eu-institutions/news/73774/jeremy-corbyn-criticises-governments-%C2%A393m-pro-eu-leaflet">https://www.politicshome.com/news/euro...
12) Director of the Remain campaign, himself a Labour member & candidate said “Rather than making a clear and passionate Labour case for EU membership, Corbyn took a week’s holiday in the middle of the campaign and removed pro-EU lines from his speeches” https://www.newsweek.com/brexit-eu-remain-campaigners-attack-jeremy-corbyn-474911">https://www.newsweek.com/brexit-eu...
13) During the referendum campaign, http://Leave.EU"> http://Leave.EU highlighted Corbyn’s attacks on Europe made in 1996 https://twitter.com/LeaveEUOfficial/status/720535511052455936">https://twitter.com/LeaveEUOf...
14) The day after the European referendum in 2016, Jeremy Corbyn called for the immediate invocation of Article 50 – the two-year notice to leave the EU – much quicker than even Theresa May wanted https://labourlist.org/2016/06/corbyn-article-50-has-to-be-invoked-now/">https://labourlist.org/2016/06/c...
15) In December 2016, Jeremy Corbyn voted in Parliament in favour of the UK leaving the EU ( https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2016-12-07-102-commons/mp/10133)">https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions... and for the process to start no later than 31 March 2017 ( https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2016-12-07-103-commons/mp/10133)">https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions...
16) Jeremy Corbyn three times voted in February 2017 in favour of the Prime Minister starting the process of leaving the European Union i) https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2017-02-01-135-commons/mp/10133">https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions... ii) https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2017-02-08-158-commons/mp/10133">https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions... iii) https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2017-02-08-161-commons/mp/10133">https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions...
17) During the 2017 general election, the independent Channel 4 @FactCheck service found very little difference between Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May over Europe https://www.markpack.org.uk/150242/channel-4-factcheck-brexit/">https://www.markpack.org.uk/150242/ch...
18) the summer of 2017, Jeremy Corbyn opposed Britain remaining in the Single Market https://web.archive.org/web/20170807193404/https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/political-parties/labour-party/jeremy-corbyn/news/87767/jeremy-corbyn-insists-uk-cannot-be">https://web.archive.org/web/20170...
19) He even sacked from his team Labour MPs who voted in favour of membership of the Single Market https://www.markpack.org.uk/150614/jeremy-corbyn-sacking-labour-mps-voted-conservatives-protect-britains-place-single-market/">https://www.markpack.org.uk/150614/je...
19) He even sacked from his team Labour MPs who voted in favour of membership of the Single Market https://www.markpack.org.uk/150614/jeremy-corbyn-sacking-labour-mps-voted-conservatives-protect-britains-place-single-market/">https://www.markpack.org.uk/150614/je...
20) In 2018, Jeremy Corbyn said he would try to make Brexit go ahead even if Labour won a general election before it happened https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/21/jeremy-corbyn-labour-policy-leaving-eu">https://www.theguardian.com/politics/...
21) In February 2019, Jeremy Corbyn set out how he was ready to back Theresa May’s Brexit deal https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/06/corbyn-lays-out-labours-terms-for-backing-may-on-brexit">https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/...
22) In March 2019, writing in the Daily Mirror, Jeremy Corbyn repeated his support for Brexit, saying, “I will continue to reach out to get a decent Brexit deal” https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/jeremy-corbyn-brexit-dragging-communities-14097821">https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/poli...
23) Labour Leave group wrote about Corbyn in April 2016:
“Corbyn is a well known Eurosceptic, who voted against membership in 1975, voted against the Maastricht Treaty in 1993, and voted against the Lisbon Treaty in 2009....
“Corbyn is a well known Eurosceptic, who voted against membership in 1975, voted against the Maastricht Treaty in 1993, and voted against the Lisbon Treaty in 2009....
..Given his views he has made a number of strongly anti-EU comments over the years” https://www.facebook.com/LabourLeaveGroup/posts/1328270343855397">https://www.facebook.com/LabourLea...
These far-left, antisemitism peddling, pro-Jihadist, Brexit supporting Communists and socialists who always side with Russia on foreign policy, Corbyn’s Labour are the biggest calamity to have befallen into this country’s politics since the 2008 crash.
They have robbed the nation of an effective opposition to the conservatives and Brexit, petrified Britain’s Jews and undermined our national security.
If after reading the above, if any left-leaning Remain supporter thinks this man will stop Brexit, I honestly don’t know what to say to you. Stick to singing songs with Lilly Allen and Stormzy in the mud at Glastonbury..
and leave the serious business of saving our country to those among us who are not deluded communists or naive, idealistic socialists. Only liberals can provide the opposition to Brexit this country now needs.
This is why I’m voting Liberal Democrats #NeverCorbyn
This is why I’m voting Liberal Democrats #NeverCorbyn
I’d like to thank @markpack for providing the information necessary from his excellent political blog, which enabled me to compile the above thread
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