If the Tories win the election on December 12, we will leave the EU. If not, there will be a new referendum and we could stay in the EU.
The future of our country for decades to come is in the balance. If we win, we will be more prosperous and more powerful. If we lose, our country could be torn apart, with bitter recriminations for years to come. Scotland and Northern Ireland could go their separate ways.
InFacts will strain every sinew to deny Boris Johnson a majority. Our distinctive role is to make the fact-based case for being in the EU. We’ll do this in three ways.
First, we will rebut the half-truths, lies and false promises that the Brexiters are pumping out. Virtually every time the Prime Minister opens his mouth, he tells more falsehoods or makes more fishy promises.
Second, we will show what a rotten deal he has negotiated. It turns Northern Ireland into an EU colony and makes Great Britain poorer and less powerful than it would otherwise be.
When Johnson says we can spend more money on public services, he is being dishonest. There will be less money in the kitty if we rip ourselves out of a market responsible for half our trade.
It is also untrue to say that a vote for the Tories means Brexit will be done and dusted. The Prime Minister has only agreed our divorce deal with the EU. He hasn’t clinched a trade deal. If he wins the election, we’ll immediately be in a new crisis worrying about whether we are going to crash out of the EU’s single market at the end of next year.
Third, InFacts will make the positive case for being in the EU. Victory means we can fix the problems at home – such as the NHS, care for the eldery, lack of investment in large parts of the country and knife crime. We’ll have more money and our politicians won’t be obsessing about Brexit until the cows come home.
Victory will also mean we can help fix global problems such as the climate crisis. We can achieve much more by working with 27 like-minded countries rather than going solo. We can be a force for good in a troubled world.
InFacts will seek to persuade voters to turn out in large numbers. They should back the candidate in each constituency who has the best chance of defeating the Tory – so long as that candidate supports a referendum or is committed to stopping Brexit.
We are not partisan. We don’t care whether a candidate is Labour, Lib Dem, Green, independent, SNP or Plaid Cymru. All we care about is that they have the best chance of winning and will do the right thing if they get into Parliament.
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This is the election of our lives. Pro-Europeans are the underdogs. But we have history on our side. If we all do our bit, we can win. Yes, we can.
