Any “Vision for Britain has to include Britain in Europe

“My vision of Britain in decades to come is of a proud, independent, prosperous country, able to work with friends and partners across the world from a position of mutual strength.” Keir Starmer

Sir Keir has effectively here defined the rationale of the European Union. The people who bleated on about “Sovereignty” are the same people who now are running “Reform” or voting for it. They were wrong then and they’re wrong now. Countries are interdependent and that has to be formally recognised and membership of the EU is the way to do it.

Similarly Starmer’s waving of the red flag at “Immigration” without even acknowledging in passing the value that the Windrush generation, and countless others, have brought to our shores.

Starmer’s challenge is to counter Reform not by imitating them but by eloquently explaining why this toxic bunch of unprincipled and prejudiced carpetbaggers is morally, practically and historically wrong for Britain. We are not Trumpland. He should say so.