Sent Email to my MP....
She's Labour, so pretty sure she'll be voting it down, but wanted to get it off my chest.
"Just wanted to drop an email ahead of the crucial vote in the commons on the 11th around the PM's Brexit deal.
Firstly, I voted to Remain in the referendum. I am a very keen believer in the European Project and despite knowing it is far from perfect, I truly believe that we as a country should become as integrated to Europe as possible.
Over the summer holidays we took a 3 week camping holiday with our young kids across Europe, visiting 5 different countries seamlessly, each with their own unique and distinct culture and it was a real joy to see.
I am genuinely sad that my kids (7,6 and 4) might not have the opportunity to travel, live and love across Europe that previous generations have been able to.
But, I also know that there was a referendum and leave won. I understand the reasons (well, think I do) for this. At the time of the vote we were in the 6th year of austerity which was / is hurting the most vulnerable in society and people / politicians / the media started to blame immigration and the EU for our ills, rather than pointing the finger firmly at the Tory government. The Leave campaign promised things would change, Remain promised things would stay the same and those with nothing, or very little, understandably, wanted things to change.
However, they were sold lies. They were promised things would get better, any negative stories were classified as "Project Fear" and the MSM backed up those lies, day after day.
The Leave campaign was based on lies and likely funded in part by illegal donations.
It's a almost impossible situation that has now been created. Cameron gave people who felt disenfranchised a chance to make a change. People took that chance and I understand the anger that's going to be created if they then get ignored.
But any form of Brexit, May's deal, Corbyn's proposed deal, Norway++++ or a hard Brexit is going to have a massive impact on the vulnerable and poorest in our society and it's got to be up to Parliament to stop that happening and then, somehow, deal with the consequences of that, because they are going to be a lot less severe then Brexit will be.
So, I'm hoping you'll vote May's deal down on the 11th, along with the rest of the Labour party.
The question of what happens next is a hard one, if we offer another referendum, there is still a chance that Leave could win again... but at least voting down this deal is the first step on a long journey to sort this issue created by Cameron."
