CC: Jeremy Corbyn and Richard Corbett
Congratulations on your return to parliament. 77% is an outstanding achievement.
A hung parliament implies neither Conservatives nor Labour have a mandate for anything other than compromise. You, on the other hand, have a clear mandate from your constituents to keep doing what you're doing — fighting (hard) Brexit.
I'd like to echo the concerns of many(1) with regard to Jeremy Corbyn's views on Brexit. Many people in this election voted Labour in spite of party policy on Brexit, not because of it.
We do not have to — and ought not to — leave the single market. Richard Corbett, a Labour MEP, put together this helpful list of statements made by prominent Leavers during the referendum campaign.
Those who now claim remaining in the single market isn't respecting the referendum result are being disingenuous.
There are many who assert that freedom of movement is a negative. It isn't, not by a wide margin. It benefits this country enormously — as the drop in EU nursing applications in recent months has shown.
That said, the EU allows us to implement much greater degree of control over freedom of movement than we currently enact.
I urge you to draw Mr Corbyn's attention to the EU regulations(2). He could back these controls and back remaining in the single market. He could call on Ms May's government to enact these protocols and step back from the cliff edge of hard Brexit.
Freedom of movement means that EU citizens can live for periods of greater than three months in another EU country if (and only if) they are:
✅ Working;
✅ Independently wealthy; or
✅ Students
Thank you for your attention in this matter.
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