Polanski, however, thinks the government should go further on building ties with the EU in other areas.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think rejoining the customs union is something we should be doing as soon as possible,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s just resulting in higher prices for people.\u201d It\u2019s a policy also backed by the opposition Liberal Democrats, with whom the Greens are bidding for disillusioned Labour voters.<\/p>\n
As for rejoining the bloc altogether? \u201cOver longer term, absolutely we should be rejoining the European Union. But we\u2019ve got to make sure that that conversation is a conversation all the public\u2019s involved with. I think one of the reasons Brexit happened is because so many people feel like politics is done to them rather than with them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Brexit was a catastrophic decision. I think it’s also important that politicians listen to the fact that the public made that decision, and I believe they made that decision because of the lack of investment in their communities and need and want of something different. I think you’d be hard pressed to find anyone, though, who thinks that was a right decision that has made our communities any wealthier.\u201d<\/p>\n
Internationalism<\/p>\n
The Green leader told POLITICO that \u201creally grim\u201d plans by the Tories and Reform to leave the European Convention on Human Rights show \u201cthe slow march towards fascism that this country is on.\u201d But he said the rightward drift across Europe is a reason to get stuck in, not to hang back.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there\u2019s some really worrying trends across Europe, particularly around the far right, and we\u2019re seeing the beginnings of some of those trends in our own country. I think any political party has a decision to make, which is: Do you stay isolationist and out of Europe and say, \u2018Well, you know, they\u2019re going right wing, so we\u2019re not going to get involved.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cOr do you say actually: International and indeed, socialist solidarity looks like working with left-wing or progressive movements across Europe in ways that look to reform Europe; to make sure that the entire project is moving in a direction that ultimately protects people\u2019s freedom, protects the poorest communities across Europe, and is the best thing for our country, too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Polanski, however, thinks the government should go further on building ties with the EU in other areas. \u201cI…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,28,6215,487,6852,33,35,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,4582,40,11524,1197,807,6657,384,6565,48,6861,1201,16,15,6863,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-534608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-buildings","11":"tag-cooperation","12":"tag-cost-of-living","13":"tag-customs-union","14":"tag-elections","15":"tag-energy","16":"tag-eu","17":"tag-europe","18":"tag-european","19":"tag-european-union","20":"tag-great-britain","21":"tag-human-rights","22":"tag-immigration","23":"tag-inequality","24":"tag-investment","25":"tag-keir-starmer","26":"tag-migration","27":"tag-nigel-farage","28":"tag-populism","29":"tag-rights","30":"tag-single-market","31":"tag-trade","32":"tag-uk","33":"tag-united-kingdom","34":"tag-visas","35":"tag-youth"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115455394142864842","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}