More evidence from new polling that the Labour government's Brexit red lines are seriously out of step with public opinion. 54% of 2016 Leave voters, and 59% of Red Wall voters, would accept Freedom of Movement for Single Market access. www.theguardian.com/politics/202... (1/2) - ThreadSky

cambsforeurope.bsky.social • 82 days ago

More evidence from new polling that the Labour government's Brexit red lines are seriously out of step with public opinion.

54% of 2016 Leave voters, and 59% of Red Wall voters, would accept Freedom of Movement for Single Market access.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/12/majority-of-brexit-voters-would-accept-free-movement-to-access-single-market-uk-eu

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barneygreenway.bsky.social•82 days ago

We just had an actual poll where 21 million people voted for parties who explicitly ruled out FoM.

Suspect the government are more interested in that, than a survey of 9,000 people across 6 countries who had the time or inclination to speak to pollsters in the first place.

cambsforeurope.bsky.social•82 days ago

Repeated polls in the UK show majorities in favour of Freedom of Movement.

e.g.

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/majority-britons-support-rejoining-eu-single-market-poll-2023-11-29/

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/freedom-of-movement-leavers-remainers/

Last general election wasn't about FoM, next one won't be either, but embracing FoM will make progress on issues people will vote on easier.

craigne.bsky.social•82 days ago

If the poll asked about unlimited immigration from the EU I wonder if the polling would be different.

lazytitan258.bsky.social•82 days ago

“Would accept” indicates that they think FoM is the compromise the UK would need to be made & that we could just rejoin.
Whilst it’s good that there’s support for rejoining, it doesn’t change the lack of accessible mechanism to do so.

danny74.bsky.social•81 days ago

interesting but how does it coexist with the rise of reform UK?

clairepenny.bsky.social•81 days ago

You can’t go back, it would cost billions, that we don’t have. Got to move forward. Forge ahead with re-building relationships. Sad but realistic.

cambsforeurope.bsky.social•82 days ago

With a >3:1 majority backing Freedom of Movement as part of Single Market access, the Labour government now risks tying the UK to the decaying corpse of a Brexit few still want.

Help prevent this by joining the European Movement!

https://www.europeanmovement.co.uk/membership

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clockworkshaun.bsky.social•81 days ago

Labour cannot lead opinion on Brexit, it would give Tories ammunition and a large chunk of the UK is not attributing their pain to the referendum. As that pain builds,we will need to realign. It is the work of two terms, not a misguided flip flop in the first year that would trash the manifesto.

fuflunspw.bsky.social•81 days ago

Free movement of people is one of the four freedoms (goods, capital, services, people) that are the basis of the Single Market.

Accepting the free movement of people isn’t a concession to be made in exchange for ‘access’ to the Single Market. It’s essential.

This is 🍰 and 🦄 again.

cambsforeurope.bsky.social•81 days ago

We consider Freedom of Movement to be a good thing in and of itself, and one of the odd things has been that whenever over the past decade UK voters have been polled on whether or not they support reciprocal Freedom of Movement there have been clear majorities in support.

cambsforeurope.bsky.social•81 days ago

A key exceptionalism of the Brexit campaign was an assumption by some Leave voters that ending FoM would only affect other EU/EEA citizens coming to the UK, and not UK citizens going to EU/EEA member states.

graham-ward.bsky.social•81 days ago

Listen. Farage is up next. You want to get rid of this creep forever you don’t open up the borders now. You wait….till he’s the PM and has to face up to the tremendous onslaught of public opinion, a public beggared by his crass stupidity and racism. You do not let this fascist off the hook.

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