Gearing up for an Autumn election or Peoples Vote

NYFE Supporters at a recent Street Stall in Ripon

Appeal launched to help us sharpen our message

With the Tories still squabbling – and little chance of getting a deal or no deal through Parliament – either a General Election or People’s Vote this autumn is becoming ever more likely.  

Which is why North Yorkshire for Europe plan to sharpen our appeal so we can mobilise Remain voters – and persuade floating voters that we’d all be better off staying in the EU!

One of our most visible and engaging campaign tactics are use of street stalls. We’re now regularly staging stalls in different parts of our vast region – and we aim to make all our stalls look smarter and more professional.

So today we’re appealing to all our supporters to contribute to our fighting fund.

Donate to our Fighting Fund

Our target is £5,000. We plan to use the money raised to: 

Buy new banners, tables, flags and merchandise – enough for three or more simultaneous street stallsStage public meetings and hustings

Boost our Social Media presence

Continue expanding our network across the region

Organise more rallies outside Parliament 

One-off donations of any amount would be greatly appreciated.

Alternatively,  you may want to consider committing to the price of of a cup of coffee – £2.50 – once a month (or, if you’re feeling generous, the price of a coffee once a week). 

The button below allows you to set up regular donations of any amount. If we could generate a small regular income it would be a great help to our campaign planning – we are all volunteers and we are up against a slick, extremely well-funded Leave campaign! 

MAKE A REGULAR DONATION

(The Chuffed.org page does not charge us anything but does suggest an additional donation to fund its’ own running costs. Whilst we would urge you to consider donating something as without the platform we could not raise funds, we also want to highlight that this additional donation is completely voluntary and the amount can be changed to a lesser amount or to zero if you wish.)

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Plan for big London Marches now!

March for Change, London – July 20th, 2019 

With the Conservative Party seemingly posed to choose arch-Brexiter Boris Johnson to be our new Prime Minister, we now need to make our opposition louder and clearer than ever before.  We have to stop Brexit before it is too late.

The March for Change is calling for a change of course for our country.  We want to put Brexit behind us.  We want to reunite with Europe.  We want to fix Britain.

For information about the March for Change, click here  

Book your coach ticket from York here
Book your coach ticket from Leeds here

(There are no plans for coaches from Harrogate for this event)

People’s Vote March, London  – October 19th 2019

Message from the People’s Vote team:
This summer, the British people have the chance to force our way back into the final decision on Brexit. We are going on the offensive, with rallies in 15 towns and cities across the country, culminating with an enormous, historic march in London on October 19. Because it is now clear that this is a crisis that cannot be settled by a new prime minister or a deadlocked parliament. It can only be settled by us, the people.

Save the dates. And let’s save the country. Click here for more information

Yorkshire for Europe heading for Brussels

Our poster being distributed around Brussels

Getting ready to make our voices heard in Brussels!

Plans are coming together for our big trip to the European Parliament in Brussels.

• All 52 tickets for the coach/ ferry have sold out – and others are making their way independently*
• We’re being met by our three newly-elected Remain MEPs: Richard Corbett (Lab), Shaffaq Mohammed (Lib Dem) and Magid Magid (Greens) 
• We’re being joined by EU Supergirl Madeleina Kay and supporters from Angels for Europe, Grassroots for Europe and Women for Europe, the Brussels Light Opera Company and  Brussels-based pro EU groups

EU Supergirl Madeliena Kay

*Tickets have sold out – but  if you want to be added to our waiting list  in case of cancellations, please email. Alternatively, you could of course travel under your own steam and join us in Brussels! please email for more details

EU Elections 2019 Hustings

Book your free ticket here: Eventbrite Booking Page

Debating the issues

The European Elections on 23 May were not expected to be fought here in the UK. For some this is a matter of deep disappointment and a failure of political leadership. Others are delighted and see it is a the first step towards a second referendum and the opportunity to stay in the EU.

Everyone is welcome – whatever your viewpoint

Whatever your point of view you are welcome to attend to hear what the parties have to say. There will also be an opportunity to get your voice heard.

Political parties from across the spectrum

We have invited both Remain and Leave parties to the event to ensure balance. This includes The Green Party, Liberal-Democrats, Change UK, the Yorkshire Party, Labour, Conservative, UKIP and the Brexit Party.

Eminent local Chair

The hustings will be chaired by Professor John C Adams MBE who so successfully chaired a similar cross party meeting in January. Professor Adams is the Vice President of the National Governance Association, Founder of the National Teaching Awards and Treasurer of Humanists UK. He was a Board member of the General Teaching Council, has given evidence to several Select Committees of the House of Commons and was awarded an MBE for services to education in 2013. He lives in Harrogate.

Book your ticket for the EU Election Hustings here: Booking Page

Yorkshire and Cornwall join together in Song

Last monday saw feisty Yorkshire and Cornish campaigners join together to give Parliament a musical serenade of anti-Brexit folk protest songs.

Read more below in the link to this fantastic blog from Margaret, one of the members of the Great Yorkshire Choir………

The Great Yorkshire/Cornwall sing-off

We’re back from Yorkshire just to say…………

The famous Remain Voice Choir from Yorkshire for Europe recently made its 3rd trip to Parliament to show support for Steve Bray and Stand of Defiance European Movement (SODEM).

The long journey gave us plenty of time to practice our singing with, one or two notable exceptions apart, more enthusiasm than actual skill.

On arrival in London Steve Bray and a film cameraman were there to lead us in past College Green to Parliament Square and accompanied by our tuba player to give that authentic brass band sound and with our white rose and EU flags flying proudly we made our shambolic entrance to cheers from the waiting crowd.

During the visit we enjoyed conversations with Baron Wallace of Saltaire, Lord Newby and Baroness Harris of Richmond (who joined in the singing with great gusto!) and also John Grogan MP for Keighley.

Steve Brays “shout” at 6pm was another highlight and we enthusiastically joined him to tell Parliament to “Stoooooooooooop Brexit”

Our white rose flags and singing attracted a lot of attention throughout the day and we were filmed by ITN, Sky News, Al Jazeera, ARD German TV, Chinese TV, Ugandan TV, by an Irish TV freelance, broadcast on Radio Five live… and, of course, we featured on Channel 4 News.

After doing our best to drown out the Channel 4 news we piled into the coach for the long trip home to Yorkshire happy that we had done what we could to raise the profile of the Remain vote in Yorkshire.

Join the White Rose Army outside Parliament on Monday!

Yorkshire Campaigners outside Parliament at the SODEM protest

It’s crunch time. On Monday MP’s will be asked to take probably the most important decision since the Second World War – and what they decide will have implications for our country and our society for generations.

Book your ticket here

The momentum behind the campaign to put the Government’s deal – or any deal – back to the people has never been greater. A million people marched on Saturday, the petition to Revoke Article 50 is nudging the six million mark and opinion polls are now consistently showing a majority in favour of Remain.

But this could still go either way and it’s vital that we get a big show outside Parliament on Monday! 

Book your ticket here

Please come and join your Yorkshire colleagues and support the SODEM protesters and help us to put on a show that MP’s and the world’s media cannot ignore!

Yorkshire for Europe, representing all 12 of the region’s pro-EU groups is organising a fourth rally by Yorkshire groups – for which we’ll be bringing our Yorkshire flags and singing songs from the Yorkshire Remain Voice choir’s popular repertoire. This time it’s more important than ever!

We appreciate Monday is a day when many people are working … but please come and join if you can. It should be fun – and it couldn’t be more important.

 
Book your ticket here

DEPARTURE TIMES

NB These are approximate. Please check nearer the time as  departure times may change.

8.30am Leeming Bar Rest Area   A1 (M) J51 near Bedale DL8 1DT

Free parking in MacDonalds car park (NB It was suggested on Saturday that people parking in McDonalds car park needed to pay to park. Apparently this is not correct. If we find out that there’s a problem, we will switch to Leeming village)

9:00am Boroughbridge High School Bus stop YO51 9JX

From A1(M) J48, go towards town, past Morrisons turn on left and it’s next to the school on the right. You should be able to park in a side street close to the pick up point or in the Morrisons car park five minutes away

9:20am Wetherby Services off the A1 (M) 

The coach will pull up at the end of the car park closest to the service station, away from from entrance to retail area. We understand parking for the day is £15. We may be able to advise on alternative parking arrangements.

Departure from London approx 7.15pm

Coach Planned to take Yorkshire campaigners to Parliament

Yorkshire for Europe campaigners at SODEM demo

As MPs move ever close to taking control of the Brexit agenda, we’re planning another trip to Parliament … to remind them of their public duty to put this back to the people.

We’re planning to join forces with colleagues from other pro EU groups across the region by hiring a coach to take supporters to Westminster on Tuesday, April 2nd and Monday 8th April.

This will be the fourth and fifth trip by Yorkshire for Europe supporters. Every time we’ve been before we’ve got ourselves noticed:

• We’ve secured meetings with MPs
• We’ve got TV and newspaper coverage
• We’ve got Yorkshire flags on national television
• Our march on Parliament with Yorkshire flags has been shared tens of thousands of times on social media

Steve Bray and the SODEM team – who’ve been holding protests outside Parliament for 18 months – are very appreciative of this support. 

They’re asking us to support them again at this crucial stage in the battle to stop Brexit!

Please come and join us if you can. If you’re interested in coming please email us

Flying the flag for Yorkshire

Promoting Revoke Article 50 Petition

When we last checked the Revoke Article 50 petition had topped 5,800,000 signatures.  Now we’re joining with other groups around the country to help push the total to 10 million.

We’ve produced a leaflet we’re planning to hand out on street corners, outside railway stations and on street stalls to encourage more and more people to sign.

Sign PETiTION TO REVOKE ARTICLE 50

Want to volunteer with leafleting? Please email us

Here’s some advice we’ve put on the back of the leaflet (which applies equally to our supporters!)

Are you able to give up an hour or two to help hand out leaflets in your area? If so please email us

Meanwhile, the constituencies of Skipton & Ripon(9, 030 signatures/ 9% of constituents) and Thirsk & Malton (7, 271 signatures/ 7.2%) have turned a darker shade of orange on the Petition map – while in Harrogate & Knaresborough is shaded an even deeper orange (10, 887 signatures) 

Revoke Article 50 map showing seats with most signatures (click on image to use interactive map)

Good to know that the Remain movement is getting stronger here in North Yorkshire!

Sign PETiTION TO REVOKE ARTICLE 50

Thousands of Yorkshire campaigners join demo

Demonstrators carry posters and flags during a Peoples Vote anti-Brexit march in London, Saturday, March 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)

Brexit revolt as more than a million take to streets in London

What an amazing day! More than a million people from every corner of the nation joined the big Put it to the People march on Saturday.  It was one of the biggest gatherings London has seen since VE day – so big that many never got anywhere near Parliament Square to hear the speeches. But it didn’t matter because every one who went left feeling elated – and with a sense that the momentum behind Remain movement is becoming unstoppable.

Yorkshire flags: a common sight everywhere on the march

A record 19 coachloads of supporters – including three from North Yorkshire – set off down the M1. Many more traveled independently. Read the story in the Yorkshire Post

People from all backgrounds, races, nationalities – adults and children, able bodied and disabled – joined together in common purpose: To stop our despotic Prime Minister trying to drag us out of the EU.

Supporters ready to board the first of three NyFE coaches

There were clusters of white rose flags almost everywhere (we lost count of the number of people who asked, “what’s the flag with the flower?!”) 

The march came as the online petition to Revoke Article 50 became the biggest ever seen on the Government’s website (see below). Meanwhileopinion polls  suggest the public mood has changed and people generally are going off the whole idea of Brexit.

No longer can the Prime Minister claim it’s the will of the people.