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We are Europeans and we’re proud that the great city of Leeds voted to Remain! We won't stop campaigning until we are back where we belong- in the EU. #RejoinEU
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We are, and we will always be, proud Europeans.
We know that Britain’s home is in Europe, alongside our great friends & neighbours.
Leeds for Europe will never stop campaigning to restore the UK’s place in the heart of Europe.
Join our movement today:
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The queue stretching down Bishopgate in
#Leeds
this morning was quite a wondrous sight! Looking forward to joining a much larger queue in London later!
#RevokeArticle50
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This. Is. Incredible.
The
#GreatNorthernMarch
has been passing me for 15 minutes and I still cannot see the end of it.
#Leeds
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We left the EU because people were concerned about the shape of bananas. Yet the European Union was always, and is more than ever today, a project for peace in Europe via the solidarity of its members. The UK needs to re-appraise urgently and get back in, alongside Ukraine.🇺🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺
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Huge crowd in Parliament Square calling for the UK to Rejoin the EU!
#MarchforRejoin
@MarchForRejoin
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“…the
#Brexit
agreement was written in English so they could understand it.”
Ursula von der Leyen, G7 Summit, June 2021
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“The British Vaccine”
🇬🇧🇸🇪🇫🇷Produced by an Anglo-Swedish firm run by a Frenchman.
🇺🇸The biggest share of investment came from the USA.
🇮🇳The bulk of its production is in India.
🇮🇪The multinational Oxford vaccine team is joint-led by a scientist from Dublin.
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“I’m in total shock at the moment that all the Brexit MPs are very quiet & no one is talking about what an absolute nightmare it is to sell to the EU. I apologise unreservedly for voting out. Alas I made a mistake – shame politicians can't admit that too.”
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Now
@Femi_Sorry
is addressing the crowd of protestors at the
#BrexitIsntWorking
demonstration in Manchester. Brexit is a joke. It is splitting the UK and causing chaos.
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“We must welcome the news that
#Brexit
does not end in the chaos of no deal, but only with the sense of relief of a condemned man informed that his execution has been commuted to a life sentence.”
Lord Heseltine, 24 December 2020.
#BadDealForBritain
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“My constituency is miles away from Northern Ireland.”
Andrea Jenkyns MP, when asked in October 2019 if she was concerned about the risk that
#Brexit
posed to the stability of the Good Friday Agreement.
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That’s MEP Nigel Farage being interviewed yet again by
@BBCr4today
. We assume you have
@RCorbettMEP
@MollyMEP
&
@catherinemep
queued up to be on next in order to give balance to your coverage of the
#EuropeanElections
?
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Just passing Downing Street with chants of General Election now and sending the overriding message: “we want our star back!”⭐️
#RejoinEU
@MarchForRejoin
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“Going ahead with Brexit in a time of plague is the height of irresponsibility. It must never be forgotten that the infamous 2016 referendum was advisory, not binding, and fought on a false prospectus.”
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“Britain does not break treaties. It would be bad for Britain, bad for our relations with the rest of the world and bad for any future treaty on trade we may need to make.”
Margaret Thatcher speech to the Conservative Group for Europe, April 1975
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An eligible Polish voter “was told SIX times she could not vote, but was insistent and eventually they found her on the roll and she has now voted". How many others were not so persistent? This is a democratic outrage.
#DeniedMyVote
#Leeds
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It’s the northern Steve Bray,
@leedsblue67
, and the ever delightful
@andreajenkyns
! We are at the Tory leadership hustings in Leeds, still searching for Brexit benefits. Nothing found so far!
@snb19692
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Our petition calling for a Public Inquiry into the impact of Brexit has passed 3,000 names in its first few hours. Let’s get this debated in Parliament. Please sign and share widely.
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In
#Leeds
right now! On the night of parliament’s big vote
#Yorkshire
says loud and clear: We demand a People’s Vote!
#peoplesvote
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Pro-EU legend
@snb19692
is addressing the
@GrassrootsEU
conference: “We are a force to be reckoned with!”. Wonderful reception for this grassroots hero.
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#Leeds
MP
@hilarybennmp
now addressing the crowds at a huge rally calling for the
#Brexit
coup to be stopped & democracy defended.
Second show of force by the Remainers of Leeds in two days!
#StopTheBrexitCoup
#StopTheCoup
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An EU Citizen who has lived in the UK for 20 years writes: “I’ve paid my taxes & national insurance contributions and jumped no queues whatsoever.”
On behalf of the British people, we apologise to our European friends for our despicable Prime Minister.
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We don’t know if it is just the North of England, but we are noticing a distinct lack of civil disorder and fury on our streets due to
#Brexit
not happening on 31 October as promised. How anarchic is it in other parts of the UK this evening?
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Aaaand…. Leeds for Europe are back on the streets! We’ve just set up our first street stall since Jan 2020. The fight back against
#Brexit
has begun!
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A new poll has revealed that voters back Lord Heseltine in demanding Britain’s relationship with the EU should be ‘front and centre’ of the general election campaign
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Hearing rumours that the
#marchtoleave
has given up for the day in
#Knaresborough
, 10 miles short of their destination of
#Wetherby
. Now their “battle bus” has broken down so they are stranded - in limbo.
#Brexit
in a nutshell!
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“My decision to resign as chairman of the Pudsey Conservative Association, together with my membership, on the day Johnson became PM seemed at the time to be a difficult one. But within hours I knew I had made the correct call” by
@JasonAldiss
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We are at Elland Road this evening for the Tory Party leadership hustings. Will we see signs of a plan from either of the candidates to address the damage their disastrous Brexit deal is imposing on our country? We doubt it somehow, but we will keep holding them to account.
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Excellent analysis of what’s coming: “Many British companies may be in for a very unpleasant surprise next year. They will lose the important & automatic right to lawfully sell anything made here in any of the other EU27 countries without further approval”
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Good morning from Leeds! We are on our way to London for today’s National Rejoin March
@MarchForRejoin
. See you in 5 hours!
We want our star back!⭐️
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Now in Parliament Square
@leedrizzle
has just announced that over 50,000 people have marched through London today calling for the UK to Rejoin the EU. A phenomenal showing for the first National Rejoin March!
#RejoinEU
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“The EU vaccination rollout is actually a great example of how the EU works. Any advantage the UK had over the EU has now been squandered by our Government’s failure to place India on the red list, which let the Delta variant rip through this country.”
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“What struck me during my UK trip: There seemed to be strong doubt whether ‘the EU would take us back if we wanted to rejoin’. So let me say this: You still have millions & millions of friends in the EU. No matter what happens, we will always leave a light on.”
Terry Reintke MEP
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We’re back! We will never stop campaigning until we have reclaimed our place in the family of nations which is the EU.
#HapppyNEUYear
. Join our movement:
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European flags springing up all over
#Leeds
. It is clear that the debate over Britain’s future relationship with Europe is far from over. In fact, our journey back into the EU is just beginning!
#StillEuropean
#RejoinEU
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We used some new questions on our Brexitometer in Leeds yesterday. Fair to say we didn’t find much enthusiasm for the idea of either Prime Minister Truss or Prime Minister Sunak! There was support for the UK joining the EU Single Market, however.🇪🇺
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This is such a beautiful story. And it’s right on our doorstep in Wakefield. Sign her up
@SWYforEurope
!
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Imagine having a passport that allowed you to live, work and retire in 27 other countries.
Those were the days.🙁🛂
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‘European leaders have pledged to raise billions of pounds to help find a vaccine and treatments for Covid-19 as part of an “international alliance” fighting the disease.’ >> This is exactly the sort of thing the UK should be involved in. Why aren’t we?
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Some highlights of a superb day of anti-
#Brexit
action. If
@theresa_may
doesn’t listen to us we will keep coming back in larger and larger numbers until not just London, but the whole country is brought to a standstill. We’re mad as hell and we aren’t going to take this anymore.
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Contrary to popular belief, the north of England now has the strongest support for Remaining in the EU of any part of England outside London. 55% back Remain according to the latest polling.
People up here are realising that
#Brexit
is a project of the elite, for the elite.
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#StopTheBrexitCoup
in
#Leeds
now. A growing crowd being entertained by the legendary Remain Voice Choir!
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MPs Tobias Elwood, Clive Lewis, Caroline Lucas and Layla Moran back our call for a public inquiry into the impact of Brexit. The debate on this will take place in Westminster Hall on Monday. It will be opened by SNP MP Martyn Day.
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The billionaire inventor James Dyson has lost a libel action against a British newspaper which commented on how he supported Brexit but then moved his business to Singapore.
Oh dear, what a pity, never mind. 😉
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“The former chair of the Conservative Party in Yorkshire’s second most marginal constituency [Pudsey] today urges residents to vote Labour in the general election to stop
#Brexit
.” Having met
@JasonAldiss
we know that he is a true Conservative. Wow
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We have spent 5 years on the streets of Leeds talking to thousands of people, many of them Brexit supporters. And in all that time not one of them has been able to tell us about a meaningful benefit of Brexit.
So forgive our cynicism about Boris Johnson’s current “initiatives”.
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Big crowd in
#Leeds
today to
#StopTheBrexitCoup
. With
@alexsobel
for
@UKLabour
together with representatives of
@LeedsGreenParty
&
@LeedsLibDems
. A cross-party alliance here to
#StopTheCoup
and
#StopBrexit
!
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In this year’s census, you will have the opportunity to state, freely, how you identify yourself. Take this opportunity to show that you are angry that other people have tried to strip you of your European identity.
Declare Yourself European! 🇪🇺
#Census2021
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We are heading to London to attend the parliamentary debate about a
#BrexitInquiry
.
We are carrying the invaluable
@YorksBylines
“David’s Downside Dossier”, which catalogues the first 1,000 downsides of Brexit. We will present copies to MPs to inform them about impacts.
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Leeds for Europe are on the move! Long way to go, but looking forward to arriving in London for the
#PeoplesVoteMarch
. See you soon!
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Thank you
@RCorbettMEP
&
@BarrySheerman
for leading the singing of the
#YorkshireforEurope
groups outside the Houses of Parliament this afternoon! Fantastic atmosphere. The pro-EU feeling in the North of England is so strong.
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Yellow vest demo in
#Leeds
on Saturday: “One commenter called it an 'embarrassment', while another said: ‘We gave up also, couldn’t find anyone at train station’”.
But hundreds of anti-fascists did turn up to show
#Leeds
at its best
@AFN_Leeds
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“The European Union is the best example, in the history of the world, of conflict resolution & it is the duty of everyone, particularly those who live in areas of conflict, to study how it was done & to apply its principles to their own conflict resolution.”
John Hume, 1937-2020
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There are many times when we are very proud to come from
#Leeds
. This is one of them. Far right virus-denying protestors had planned to flout lockdown rules by holding mass protests in Leeds parks today. This was the result...
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Heseltine: “A government frightened of parliament is frightened of democracy. And a government willing to kick MPs out of its party on an issue of such monumental importance is a government without leadership, frightened of the truth.”
#BrexitNorth
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Leeds for Europe stands with Ukraine!🇺🇦 Good luck to all the
@euromove
marchers in London today!
#UKwithUkraine
#RejoinEU
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Former Belgian Prime Minister
@guyverhofstadt
is addressing the National Rejoin March. “Brexit has been a disaster for the UK & for Europe”…”Europe is a question of our heart, our soul & our place in the world”.
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Remember when we had to leave the EU because of "unelected bureaucrats"?
There are now 20 unelected Ministers in our Vote Leave government, covering 17 departments.😬
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Today our focus is on the parliamentary debate about our call for a public inquiry into the impact of Brexit.
138,000 people have signed our petition on this so far. Have you? If not, there is still time to add your name before it’s debated next week:
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Another 10,000 leaflets have just arrived and are about to hit the streets of
#Leeds
thanks to our generous crowdfunder donors. Please keep giving, and we will keep our campaign growing!
#LetsStayTogether
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@Andrew_Adonis
upon his arrival at “the crucible of the
#Remain
movement in the North”, as he prepared to address a packed audience of 200 people at
#Leeds
Civic Hall earlier today.
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'Lucy Harris, newly elected representative for Yorkshire and the Humber, announced after a recent trip to Brussels that she'd finally been "to the EU for the first time". God knows what'll happen when she finds out she’s been living there all along.' LOL!
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"At its meeting on 15th January Liverpool City Council overwhelmingly passed a motion .. which not only declared that Liverpool is & will remain a major European City but would take steps to increase & improve its European links."
#Leeds
should match this.
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From
@theneweuropean
>>The biggest event of the weekend will undoubtedly be in Leeds for the Great Northern March. “It is a myth that the north of England is dominated by Leave voters. The great cities of the north all voted Remain.”
#GreatNorthernMarch
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Early start from
#Leeds
. Our fleet of buses is on the move. Merging with the other
@yorkshireeurope
groups, growing in numbers as we progress down the M1 to London, where we will call for a
#FinalSay
on our futures, and those of our children. 🇪🇺
@peoplesvote_uk
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Well done your majesty! You’ll make royalists of us yet. 👑
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So proud of the Leeds for Europe team today. Within 24 hrs of the final election results being declared here they were: ready to plan the fightback, utterly undimmed in their determination to make the pro-European case for as long as it takes to reverse the epic error of
#Brexit
.
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Theresa May. You have done NOTHING to unite the people of Britain since becoming PM, so stop this nonsense.
#brexit
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This is absolutely fantastic fighting talk from
@anna_soubry
who has, quite rightly, had enough of Rees-Mogg, Johnson etc. Please watch and RT. We need more of this please.
#Brexit
.
@Anna_Soubry
tells
@nicholaswatt
it’s time Theresa May stood up to the “hard ideological Brexiteers” and “slung ‘em out”
#newsnight
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Can we rejoin the EU please, so that we can be part of an organisation which is prepared to impose proper sanctions on Russia?
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A clear & growing majority now want to stay in the EU. The fact that sentiment can change so fast highlights why it is lunacy to implement such a drastic constitutional change as
#Brexit
on an evenly split 52/48% referendum vote.
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‘A poll of 949 company executives asking which policy area offered the greatest opportunity for the UK to “reduce the regulatory burden” of EU law found there was no such policy area at all.’
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Happening now in
#Doncaster
! People of Don Valley reject
@CarolineFlintMP
's plan to support Theresa May's
#Brexit
plan
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Leeds for Europe are on our way to Manchester today to say loud and clear:
BREXIT ISN’T WORKING!
Meet Leeds train station at 11.30am, or we’ll see you in Manchester at 2pm in St Peter’s Square!
#BrexitIsntWorking
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Our Christmas message:
We demand a
#PeoplesVote
Stop
#Brexit
and
Merry Christmas from
#Leeds
for Europe!
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Love this quote! “Dominic Raab’s resignation in protest at a deal he was himself responsible for negotiating is like robbing a bank and then performing a citizen’s arrest on yourself on the way out.”
#brexitshambles
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On
@Channel4News
just now it was stated that "our net contribution to the EU is less than our net contribution to Northern Ireland". It is staggering that no one has pointed this out before.
#BrexitVote
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"Richard Tice probably does want me to replace him. But do I want to be an MP? Do I want to spend every Friday for the next five years in Clacton?"
Nigel Farage, The Times, 11/02/24
Voters of Clacton: Farage has contempt for you, just like he has contempt for the rest of us.
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Protest tomorrow in Manchester because Brexit Isn’t Working!
2pm, St Peter’s Square.
Great line-up of speakers including
@Femi_Sorry
@mikegalsworthy
@CosiDoerfel
&
@RichardBentall
!
#RejoinEU
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“Boris is great fun as company and all the rest of it, but he couldn’t run a whelk stall.”
Kenneth Clarke, former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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Remainers are the true patriots. We have warned for 3 years that
#Brexit
would lead to our national decline & humiliation. It hurts us to see this happening before our eyes. Meanwhile, the Brexiters plough on, piling embarrassment & shame on our country.
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Whatever happens in 2020, Leeds for Europe will be here to represent all of the people who are proud to call themselves European. We know that Britain is better than
#Brexit
. We look forward to the day that the UK is reunited with our great friends in the family of EU nations. 🇪🇺
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To be clear: We in
#Leeds
feel very at home in the EU. We are proud Europeans & Yorkshire folk. There is no incompatibility with being both.
May's insistence that British people "never felt at home" in EU, both ignorant, tendentious: who did you ask Theresa? Farage?
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