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VoteIn might have better arguments, but it is failing those it needs to reach

The arguments made at the openDemocracy-sponsored VoteIn rally were, at last, convincing. But is the campaign refusing to engage with Brexiteers’ grievances?

By A.M. Poppy
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High Street, Chipping Barnet, October 2015. Wikicommons/ Philafrenzy. Some rights reserved.At last the lineaments of the argument in the Brexit/Bremain debate are becoming scrutable.

So far, I have maintained that the referendum is a dispiriting conundrum. The clinching arguments were elusive in an opaque campaign thick with venom and misinformation. Until openDemocracy joined with Another Europe is Possible to get Yanis Varoufakis and DiEM25 to London to launch a Vote In campaign this weekend, calling for a new, social Europe.

Varoufakis spelled it out simply: “Sovereignty is and ought to be paramount.” A sovereignty that resides in the people making decisions democratically, to be fought for at all levels – from the local, to the European level.

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