Reply To: More on Brexit
The Euroelections and the rise of the Brexit Party face Lexiteers with the dilemma of whether or not to vote for Farage’s Brexit Party.
Some like George Galloway have chosen to support Farage’s new party. Others have even agreed to stand for it, such as ex-RCPer Claire Fox. Another ex-RCPer, James Heartfield (who has gone on record as voting for us in a local election) is also a Brexit Party candidate (in Yorkshire).
Others can’t bring themselves to do this and are advocating abstention. The Communist Party of Britain has put forward the slogan “Boycott the EU elections”, stating that “they are sham elections for a sham ‘parliament'” The Trotskyites of Workers Hammer take the same line, chanting: “Down with there EU! No participation in its pseudo-parliament!”
Meanwhile “Stand Up To Racism” are urging “Use our vote to stop racist, far right UKIP”. Since they are saying to use your vote this amounts to saying Vote for Anyone But UKIP not excluding the Brexit Party if you want. In fact one of their leaflets says as much:
“Whether you are Leave or Remain, these people are vile racist. Don’t vote for them”
In so far as the elections are a proxy referendum, this could affect the outcome (or, rather, the arguments about who did best) in that the 2-3% of votes cast that the Lexiteers will have brought the Leave side in 2016 could well have been what enabled them to cross the winning line.
