![]() "If elected, I will back Boris - I will not hold him up like his Remainer colleagues have done in the past. I thoroughly believe that we need to push on and get “Brexit done! "I am determined to uphold the democratic vote of 54% of this district who voted to leave the EU in 2016. I campaigned alongside Vote Leave in 2016 and am actively involved with an All Party Parliamentary Group on Domestic Violence. ![]() Mrs Furse, 53, said: "I have experience in working with many MPs - cross-party. ![]() I was elected as a Parish Councillor in May and have a good level of understanding when it comes to local issues. I truly think that only a local person can give true representation and commitment. "I am not a career politician and believe politics should go back to being about serving one’s constituency. She said: "Politics is broken and the two-party system is no longer serving our district or our country - times have changed. The business is now run by her husband while she concentrates on campaigning. She started her own company Ferncroft Bookkeeping Limited in 1999, while bringing up her three daughters. Mrs Furse has lived in Sevenoaks for 26 years. She was previously the chairman of the Sevenoaks Conservative Association, but quit in February in protest at what she perceived as a lack of commitment to Brexit from Theresa May's Government and the town's then MP Sir Michael Fallon. Mrs Furse is passionately on favour of Brexit. Mrs Furse had been selected as the Brexit Party candidate for Sevenoaks, but after Mr Farage's edict she has left the party and is standing anyway as an Independent. A lot of us want something that gives us a more direct connection to those who make our laws, and we won’t decide simply by choosing one Etonian over another.Nigel Farage may have announced that he was withdrawing all Brexit Party candidates from contesting Tory-held seats in the General Election, but he reckoned without the determination of Paulette Furse. The remain crew should not take us for granted, because voting for more of the same feels awfully like the way the worst parts of the EU function: by boring us into submission. Yelling “Ukip” or “business” is not enough, nor is Boris’s last hurrah either. Labour seems completely absent, possibly because its leaders are naturally Eurosceptic, possibly because they would rather think about Venezuela, or possibly because their media strategy consists mainly of sulking.īut there are many people like me – about a third of voters – who are undecided and open to persuasion. An opposition party ought now to be gunning for the momentous split in the Tory party that is happening from the bottom up. Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, and his shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, seem unable to rouse themselves at all. Nonetheless, Varoufakis thinks we should stay in and try to reform institutions that he acknowledged were set up as democracy-free zones.īoris Johnson tells reporters on Sunday he will be backing the campaign for the UK to leave the European Union. The only left arguments are variations on a theme from people like Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek finance minister who has told of witnessing “ the banality of bureaucracy” – and who was told by the German finance minister that elections cannot be allowed to change the established economic policy. The points about democracy and sovereignty matter, and I am not sure that they can be smoothed over by personalities alone – whoever they belong to. Now of course, this will all be overshadowed by Boris and his “personality”, after the shocking development that he will be doing what works best for his “king of the world” plan. Maybe this pales among issues like security, workers’ rights and border control, but as a representative democracy it is sorely lacking. Not a single one of my pro-EU friends could name their MEP when I asked them. As usual, my question was misunderstood – I had not asked: “Where is the one woman who makes up for it being an entirely male-dominated decision-making process?” It prompted me to ask: “Where are the women?” The answer I was given was Angela Merkel. Or watching last week, as rooms full of middle-aged men fiddled around to sort the small change of a deal that Cameron could sell. Why haven’t we? Over the past few years, the more we have seen of the actual workings of the EU, the more unattractive it appears: the troika pursuing regime change in Greece, then openly asset-stripping it. The argument that we can reform the EU (er, actually banks?) from the inside does not work.
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