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😡 Brexit - 26 UK MEPs Voted Against Starting Trade Talks 😡

3,801 views · Published 5 October 2017 · 4:53 · Indexed 4 November 2026

Channel: Jeff Taylor · 2017 · News & Politics

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Talk about going native, 26 UK Members of the European Parliament actually voted against moving Brexit negotiations forward to allow trade talks to begin.

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That’s right folks, 26 UK MEPs decided that they would side with Brussels and slow the negotiating process down by voting that there had been insufficient progress to move the talks on to post Brexit trade.

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That’s 18 Labour MEPs, two Tories, three from the Green Party  and the one Lib Dem as well as one from Sinn Fein and one from Plaid Cymru, all who supported the motion put forward by Guy Verhofstadt.

It goes without saying that every single one of the 19 UKIP MEPs voted against the motion.

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The two Tories did this just as their party was gathered at their party conference and trying to show some unity, which has infuriated both party members and senior party officials.

It will also anger huge swathes of voters. But before we all go on a witch hunt I will just remind people of one thing.

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UK MEPs are voted in by voters from the UK, the EU and the Commonwealth who live in the UK.

They are also members of a European party system. For example, the Tories are part of the European Conservatives and Reformists, Labour are joined with European Parliamentary Labour Party and UKIP are with the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy.

Now, leave voters may well not appreciate this, but MEPs do therefore have a remit wider than the UK electorate that voted in the UK parliamentary elections and the EU referendum.

I’m not excusing them, just pointing out that they can claim to have a duty to protect EU citizens within the UK in the way they see fit.

This is an excellent example of the conflict of interests that being a member of the EU places on our political system. Just another reason for us to leave.

But, where I do question their thinking, is that by not voting to move on to trade talks they are delaying the whole process and therefore injecting more uncertainty for businesses and investors to deal with as well as endangering the livelihoods of many people - not just in the UK but across the whole European Union.

What these MEPs have done, is jump on the ‘we must punish the UK’ bandwagon even if the citizens of the rest of the EU suffer too.

That is unforgivable.

In some better news, you may not have known it, but Boris Johnson’s father was a Remain supporter, but it turns out that he was recently persuaded to change sides and support Leave by the actions of one Jean-Claude Juncker. And I suspect Mr Johnson Senior will be one of many, many thousands.

Now for something on transport.

For all those who thought that electric cars were good for the environment and our health, well I’ve got bad news for you.

Many people ignore the fact that more electric cars means more power stations, but there is also another pollutant that all cars throw out. And that’s brake and tyre dust, which are also bad for the health and electric cars emit them too.

So a government pollution advisor, professor Frank Kelly, has put forward that large areas of London should be pedestrianised to overcome this.

My question is, what do we do about bicycle tyre and brake dust as well as the dust from shoe wear?

I’ll leave you to ponder on that one.

If you have thoughts on our rogue MEPs, Boris’s dad or electric cars, please leave a comment below.

Thank you.

https://www.conservativehome.com/parliament/2017/10/what-are-conservative-meps-doing-voting-against-trade-talks.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41477817

http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/862641/Brexit-news-list-26-British-MEPs-voted-EU-opening-trade-talks

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2f%2fEP%2f%2fNONSGML%2bPV%2b20171003%2bRES-RCV%2bDOC%2bPDF%2bV0%2f%2fEN&language=EN

http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/862624/London-Air-pollution-UK-electric-cars-ban

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