🚨 Canada has invited Britain to team up with the emerging Canada–Europe alliance.
Brexiteers demanded a Canada-style EU deal, outside the single market and customs union, and promised Britain would prosper through its special relationship with America.
Instead, Brexit helped legitimise and embolden the nationalism that returned Trump to power. America has changed. Canada is now building an alliance with Europe to resist economic coercion and calling Britain back towards the European family.
Canadian Finance Minister
@FP_Champagne nails it:
“We are independent and sovereign, but we are stronger together.”
That demolishes Brexit’s central lie. For middle-sized countries, sovereignty is strengthened by working with like-minded powers. Cooperation protects self-determination; isolation leaves countries exposed.
@AndyBurnham should accept Canada’s invitation. But this alliance must become a bridge back to the single market, customs union and ultimately full EU membership, not another mechanism for avoiding the decision.
The world has changed. Britain must change with it.