A new poll gives a big thumbs down to closer alignment with the EU and to the Re set policy.
It is true Polls have shown understandable voter disappointment with the pathetic Brexit the UK governing establishment have created. The government and the many EU enthusiasts in the Establishment have mistaken this for support for putting the UK back under EU laws.The voters complaining about Brexit are not just the approx 20% minority who will always want us back in, but lots of voters who feel cheated by a government that will not shake off the worst features of retained EU law and policy.We voted Brexit for something better. We did not want to stay under the EU laws and taxes which kept us with slow growth and lack of innovation, losing out to the US and Asia all the time.
In a new independent poll with a good sample 59% say they do not want to surrender some powers to make our own laws and taxes to get better access to the EU single market. Only 27% think it a good idea. The agreed poll question was generous to the EU as it implied we could get better access for the sacrifice. The news from the reset talks so far is we will not get improved access whilst paying a big price in extra payments to the EU and in accepting many unhelpful laws.
This poll was commissioned by Britain Un bound, a new cross party group. I am joint chairman of the Advisory Committee with Labour’s Richard Johnson, an academic at Queen Mary London. The group includes Reform, Conservative, Labour, DUP and SNP members and contributors.