Green Party member of the London Assembly Sian Berry has proposed a motion to the assembly which seeks to reverse the Brexit vote of the entire United Kingdom. They have urged Mayor of London Sadiq Khan to join the campaign for a “people’s vote” on the final terms of Brexit.

Campaigners want the full electorate to have a say on the deal, leaving open the option of reversing the result of the referendum.

Andrew Dismore, Labour Assembly member, also backed the motion saying: “In light of the massive potential impact of the term of any Brexit deal on London, this Assembly urges the Mayor, if the Brexit deal is rejected by Parliament or there is no deal, to back publicly the campaign for a people’s vote on the terms of the UK’s exit from the European Union and to lobby Government and Members of Parliament to support the demand for a vote. This Assembly also commits to supporting this position.”

Sian Berry AM, who proposed the original motion, stated:

 “The Assembly has recognised that there is a huge strength of feeling in London for a people’s vote – this motion also acknowledges the strength of feeling among Assembly members – I’d like to thank Caroline Pidgeon for her work on developing and moving this motion.

We agree that the people should have the final say on the terms of the Brexit deal. This spans both people who backed remain and those who may have voted for Brexit but not for the mess we are now in.

The impact of Brexit is deeply worrying – for our economy and for our friends, families and fellow Londoners who will be made unwelcome, and all this will be worse if there’s no deal agreed. A people’s vote would give us the chance we need to reconsider.

In light of the massive potential impact of the term of any Brexit deal on London, this Assembly urges the Mayor, if the Brexit deal is rejected by Parliament or there is no deal, to back publicly the campaign for a people’s vote on the terms of the UK’s exit from the European Union and to lobby Government and Members of Parliament to support the demand for a vote. This Assembly also commits to supporting this position.”

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David Kurten of UKIP slammed the move saying: “It is astonishing how some Remoaners still do not respect the result of the referendum on leaving the EU and are trying to overturn the democratic will of the people under the guise of having a ‘People’s Vote’.”

A small but noisy minority of anti-democrat EU sycophants are propagandising the idea that people who do not agree with them are unintelligent or didn’t know what they were voting, but his is a great calumny!

We had a people’s vote, the people knew what we were voting for, and the people voted to leave!

It is shocking that a majority of London Assembly Members voted against democracy yesterday, but UKIP will always speak up on behalf of the people of the nation and fight for the ordinary patriotic people of Britain who want our country back.”

Khan hinted in 2017 that he is considering supporting a second vote and is currently calling for a “soft” Brexit which supports continued mass immigration as well as being under EU rules.

UNITY is running a survey on what people really think about Sadiq Khan and you can take part here now:

https://www.ukunity.org.uk/what_do_you_think_about_sadiq_khan