It looks like the purpose of the Brexit campaign was to turn the UK into a European North Korea complete with the nuclear weapons

 Progressive European Party

This is very easily achievable if we followed Nigel Farage's advice and just leave the EU today. Just walk away and forget about a deal and don’t pay any compensation. That would not only ruin our trade with the EU it would also turn us into a pariah that no one else would want to trade with either. We would still have to trade with the outside world to avoid starving, we can’t grow all our own food. It is unlikely though to be any trade that would be to our advantage, we would have to sell what we have at less than its value in order to get what we need to survive.

A slightly watered down version of this is being implemented by the Conservative Government. Since the start of their austerity program, they have been degrading public services and by the manipulation of the benefits system forcing people into low wage jobs. They are then cynical enough to present low unemployment as a great achievement. Ignoring the homeless sleeping in doorways.

“There are 120,540 youngsters living in temporary accommodation – up 73% over the past six years, official figures show.” a Daily Mirror article tells me.

Who benefits from this mean and callous, deliberate restructuring of society you may ask yourself. There is only one group who can benefit from high employment and low wages, the company owners and investors.

If you are old enough to remember British rail you will know how bad it had become after years of Government under investment. The way of "saving" it then was to bring in private companies, to sell it off, to sell what we as taxpayers owned so rich investors could become even richer. Is there not a parity here with what is happening to the Health Service, the Police force and Fire Service etc. 14 of our prisons are contractually managed by private companies. Anything could potentially be sold off. After first running it down because we can’t “afford” to pay for it anymore out of Taxation. Which at the same time allows investors to pick it up at bargain basement prices. This at the same time coupled with a low wage society making the investment even more attractive.

Am I painting a picture for you here? Upscale the British rail scenario to the whole of the UK and to Brexit. The underinvesting in public services and the weakening of our position on the world stage that Brexit is bringing us could potentially put everything up for grabs. The super rich will become super super rich and the rest of us will work long hours at slave wages well beyond retirement age just to survive.

I think it matters little now if you voted leave or remain, we are all going to be in the same boat when it comes to #Brexit, stop this power grab by the far right. Take back real control by having real a democracy, put the Progressive party in power and your and everyone's voice will be heard guaranteed

Philip Notley

party leader