No2EU – Yes to Democracy is Launched

No2EU Yes to Democracy is an electoral platform. It is a trade union-backed alliance of political parties and campaigning groups. We believe the time is right to offer the peoples of Britain an alternative view of Europe. 

The recent referendum in Ireland clearly demonstrates that the working people of Europe are not happy with the direction the EU is taking. The failure of the mainstream parties to represent this feeling has led to a political vacuum.  

We will not sit in the European parliament in the event of winning any seats. Our candidates will only nominally hold the title MEP and will not board the notorious EU gravy train. 

We want to see a Europe of independent, democratic states that value its public services and does not offer them to profiteers; a Europe that guarantees the rights of workers and does not put the interests of big business above that of ordinary people. We believe the current structures of the EU makes this impossible. We say…

• Reject the Lisbon Treaty
• No to EU directives that privatise our public services
• Defend and develop manufacturing, agriculture and fishing industries in Britain  
• Repeal anti-trade union ECJ rulings and EU rules promoting social dumping
• No to racism and fascism, Yes to international solidarity of working people
• No to EU militarisatiaon
• Repatriate democratic powers to EU member states
• Replace unequal EU trade deals with fair trade that benefits developing nations
• Scrap EU rules designed to stop member states from implementing independent economic policies
• Keep Britain out of the eurozone