No Blank Cheque!

The recent General Election in the UK was fought on many issues - but looming large over it was Theresa May's vision that "Brexit means Brexit". She kept telling us that she was fighting the election to get a mandate for the negotiations which are about to start.

She lost many seats, AND her majority in the House of Commons - based on that campaign. She has NO mandate for a 'hard Brexit'.

The other truth is that the referendum of June 2016 resulted in a huge "blank cheque" - and the right wing Europhobes

[actually it's not the Europe part they hate - but that the EU insists on what they assert is the "burdening" of business by regulations (and we've had a tragic reminder this week of the results of watering down regulations) and enforceable rights for workers and consumers]

have filled in that cheque.

We should be demanding the right to say what is written in that "cheque", before it is irrevocably cashed.