On the fourth anniversary of Brexit, an irreducible group of Britons who dream of returning to the European Union demonstrated yesterday before the London Parliament with a promise: “We will not give up.” Flying community and British flags, with banners against the Conservative Party – which in 2016 called the referendum that led to the exit – and megaphones, the activists once again cried out that, although the political class tries to turn the page, they do not forget.
Their protest in front of the Big Ben bell tower coincided with the entry into force yesterday, after several postponements, of the border controls that the United Kingdom will now apply to imports from the EU. According to the protesters, another reminder of the economic disaster that the divorce from Brussels represented.
Looking ahead to this year’s general elections in the United Kingdom, none of the major parties – Conservative, Labor and Liberal Democrats – are proposing to return to the community bloc and are making efforts to avoid a debate that they fear will take away their votes.
While the resistance made noise in the street, on social network
“Four years after Brexit, we celebrate the restoration of this country’s democratic power to make its own laws and rules,” he wrote. “We must retain the appetite and courage to move away from the European model of low growth and high regulation,” he added.
Johnson called for avoiding a return to trade relations management formulas that use “artificial concerns about the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland” (which must be invisible to preserve the Peace Agreement) as a pretext to keep the United Kingdom aligned with the rules. community.
2024-02-01 09:02:39
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