This crowdfunder has its origins in a grass roots democratic initiative starting in July 2016 to defend the EU Citizenship and Rights of all 67 million UK EU Citizens. Since July 2016, our EU Citizenship and Rights have been systematically attacked by successive Conservative governments. The underlying basis for what can now be seen as an attack on the Rights of every UK EU Citizen by almost all Conservative MPs was the " non binding" 2016 UK EU Referendum vote - even though it later emerged from a case brought in the UK High Court that , had the Referendum vote been legally binding , the process would most probably have been declared invalid on the basis of electoral crimes and other issues.
The hundreds of comments which have now been made by Members of the EU Citizenship Movement and others tell us that we are a group of people of like-mind whose wishes have simply not been followed by successive governments.
In the end, a series of what we might call four awful "Brexit Tory governments" were finally swept away in the General Election held on 4th July 2024. Polling now suggests that a clear majority of UK Citizens wish the UK to be an EU Member State, and many studies now tell us that Brexit has slowed economic growth compared to what it would have been, had the UK remained in the EU, and the Office for Budget Responsibility and others have predicted that Brexit reduced GDP by about 4% ( about £100 Billion ) . And the UK economy is about 4% smaller over the long term than it would have been without Brexit. So we now have the untenable situation that while our new Labour government tell us on the one hand that they will " Kickstart Economic Growth" , there is a clear and direct step they could take right now which would over time grow the economy by 4% ie to rejoin the EU, and yet there are No10 spokeswomen and spokesmen telling the media to inform the British people that that "will not happen" - though without giving any reasons for their statements.
Many of you will now be Members of The EU Citizenship Movement .If you have not joined the Movement, but you share our aims, please do join us by signing up. At the inception of the Movement earlier in the year, our administration decided that Membership should be free, and that is still one of our founding principles. However , we now need to find the precise mechanism by which the democratic wishes of the people of the UK, namely that the UK will again become a Member State of the EU , will be satisfied. This Crowdfunder is for our Members to make a small contribution to help give the Movement a formal structure, to set up an Office, and an Organizing Committee, and to hold a first Meeting. We would ask you to make a contribution of £10 , but of course only if you are in a position to do so.