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To: The Prime Minister
Take a break from BREXIT
Call a general election that gives everybody a voice, and so that the politicians making the decisions about Brexit have specifically been elected to take the most important decision that our nation has faced for decades.
DiEM25, the movement for democratising Europe is supporting the campaign to Take a break from Brexit for democracy to prevail.
Why is this important?
The government has presided over a secretive Brexit process that has undermined our reputation for democracy and common sense. It is simply not true that the decision is between Mrs May’s deal or no deal. Whatever we are told about ‘the people’s will’, there are more options on the table, and an opportunity for the British people to be given both a voice and a vote on which of them is best.
In 2016, the first People’s Vote, 17.4 million people in Britain voted in favour of withdrawing from the EU. After two years of back-stage negotiation and mutual recrimination, what do we all think now? A lot of information has come out in the meantime that we needed to know then, making it uncertain that many of us would have voted as we did. We need a government who wants to know what the majority of us think now and will support a process that will bring us together as a nation, not drive us further apart.
For this, we need to send a request from London to Brussels to extend the Article 50 negotiation process by one year. This campaign has already started pushing for a debate in Parliament, and we need your help to get this through. A proper People’s Debate will enable us to hear from the young as well as many others who have had no say in a decision that will vastly affect their lives. A general election will elect a government able and willing to implement the recommendations resulting from that debate.
Our request for an extension of Article 50 would be accompanied by a pledge to Europe that this one-year period would be utilised for the people of Britain to clear the air and avert a catastrophic no deal – in a process that gives them the final say.
