FIVE YEARS ON: A LOOK BACK

In 2016 Bin The Labour Party was still relatively young, but it was an incredibly momentous year and our pro-Leave Brexit stance was crucial to our growth which, at that time, was limited to Facebook.  Karl has looked back over some of the memes around that time and rejigged a few to our current standards.  The following memes were all, to the best of our knowledge, BTLP originals from between 2016 and 2018.

Pre-23 June 2016

23 June 2016

Post-23 June 2016

THE TOP 20 CHICKENS

Following Labour's u-turn, the government's general election bill was passed in the Commons by a whopping 418 majority.  It still has to pass through the House of Lords, but is likely to gain royal assent by the end of the week.  Predictably it won't move as swiftly as the Benn Surrender Act did.  Nothing moves that fast!

Embarrassingly for Corbyn almost half of his own MPs refused to back his newfound enthusiasm for a general election. 104 abstained in the final vote, while a further 11 voted against, making a complete mockery of Corbyn's triumphant announcement earlier in the day that his party was "totally united".

There were 20 MPs in total who opposed the final reading of the bill, many of whom clearly desperate to cling on to the Westminster gravy train for as long as possible.  More than half of them were Labour, including the most despicable parasites of all ie. those who are standing down anyway at the next election, but who wanted to stay on and milk the system just that little bit longer.  They are all unapologetic Remainers, so some of them will be fearing the election of a pro-Leave Parliament.  We've put our suggestions for their main motives in italics.  Obviously there's no doubting the motives for Change UK...

Labour

Adrian Bailey (West Bromwich West) - huge Leave vote in his constituency, running scared
Margaret Beckett (Derby South) - big Leave vote in her constituency, running scared
Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley) - standing down, wanted to ride the train a bit longer
Paul Farrelly (Newcastle-under-Lyme) - standing down, wanted to ride the train a bit longer
Peter Kyle (Hove) - safe seat, doesn't think Labour can win
Dave Lammy (Tottenham) - safe seat, doesn't think Labour can win
Ian Lucas (Wrexham) - standing down, wanted to ride the train a bit longer
Albert Owen (Ynys Môn) - standing down, wanted to ride the train a bit longer
Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield) - has not yet been reselected, fears deselection
Owen Smith (Pontypridd) - announced after the vote that he is standing down, didn't think Labour could win
Daniel Zeichner (Cambridge) - recent poll suggests a Lib Dem surge could unseat him, running scared

Change UK

Ann Coffey (Stockport) - cheerio, cheerio, cheerio
Mike Gapes (Ilford South) - cheerio, cheerio, cheeri-oooo
Anna Soubry (Broxtowe) - cheerio, cheerio, cheerio, cheeri-oh

Plaid Cymru

Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr) - constituency voted Leave, running scared
Liz Saville Roberts (Dwyfor Meirionnydd) - shrinking majority, running scared
Hywel Williams (Arfon) - wafer thin majority, running scared

SNP

Angus MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an lar) - shrinking majority, running scared

Green

Caroline Lucas (Brighton Pavilion) - safe seat, fears a Brexit majority

Independent Unionist

Lady Hermon (North Down) - shrinking majority, running scared

WHO WERE THE ORIGINAL BREXIT BLOCKERS?

It's been a while since the House of Commons voted to trigger Article 50.  It's been over two years in fact, we know that because we should have left the EU after two years and we're still in!  While the vote went overwhelmingly in favour of triggering Article 50, there were still 114 MPs who voted against it.  The breakdown by party was as follows.

SNP - 50
Labour - 47 (in defiance of party whips)
Lib-Dem - 7
SDLP - 3
Independents - 3
Plaid - 2
Conservative - 1 (Ken Clarke)
Green - 1

The 47 Labour MPs who voted to block Brexit are listed below, along with how their constituencies voted.  Leave constituencies are in bold.

Heidi Alexander - Lewisham East 65% Remain
Rushanara Ali - Bethnal Green & Bow 69% Remain
Graham Allen - Nottingham North 64% Leave
Rosena Allin-Khan - Tooting 74% Remain
Luciana Berger - Liverpool Wavertree 65% Remain
Ben Bradshaw - Exeter 55% Remain
Kevin Brennan - Cardiff West 56% Remain
Rupa Huq - Ealing Central & Acton 71% Remain
Lyn Brown - West Ham 52% Remain
Chris Bryant - Rhondda 60% Leave
Karen Buck - Westminster North 66% Remain
Dawn Butler - Brent Central 57% Remain
Ruth Cadbury - Brentford & Isleworth 57% Remain
Ann Clwyd - Cynon Valley 57% Leave
Ann Coffey - Stockport 53% Remain
Neil Coyle - Bermondsey & Old Southwark 74% Remain
Ian Murray - Edinburgh South 78% Remain
Thangam Debbonaire - Bristol West 79% Remain
Mary Creagh - Wakefield 63% Leave
Stella Creasy - Walthamstow 67% Remain
Stephen Doughty - Cardiff South & Penarth 57% Remain
Jim Dowd - Lewisham West & Penge 65% Remain
Maria Eagle - Garston & Halewood 52% Remain
Louise Ellman - Liverpool Riverside 73% Remain
Paul Farrelly - Newcastle-under-Lyme 62% Leave
Vicky Foxcroft - Lewisham Deptford 76% Remain
Mike Gapes - Ilford South 57% Remain
Lilian Greenwood - Nottingham South 54% Remain
Helen Hayes - Dulwich & West Norwood 77% Remain
Meg Hillier - Hackney South & Shoreditch 77% Remain
Peter Kyle - Hove 67% Remain
David Lammy - Tottenham 76% Remain
Rachael Maskell - York Central 61% Remain
Kerry McCarthy - Bristol East 53% Remain
Catherine McKinnell - Newcastle-upon-Tyne North 57% Leave
Madeleine Moon - Bridgend 50.28% Leave
Stephen Pound - Ealing North 54% Remain
Virendra Sharma - Ealing Southall 58% Remain
Tulip Siddiq - Hampstead & Kilburn 76% Remain
Andy Slaughter - Hammersmith 69% Remain
Jeff Smith - Manchester Withington 75% Remain
Owen Smith - Pontypridd 53% Remain
Jo Stevens - Cardiff Central 68% Remain
Stephen Timms - East Ham 54% Remain
Catherine West - Hornsey & Wood Green 75% Remain
Alan Whitehead - Southampton Test 50.59 Remain
Daniel Zeichner - Cambridge 74% Remain

THE TRAITORS LIST

Below is a comprehensive list of serving Members of Parliament who have publicly backed a second EU referendum in defiance of the People's Vote of 2016.  Labour MPs are in bold.

Rushanara Ali – Labour

Heidi Allen – Conservative

Rosena Allin-Khan – Labour

Tonia Antoniazzi – Labour

Guto Bebb – Conservative

Margaret Beckett – Labour

Luciana Berger – Labour
Ian Blackford – SNP

Roberta Blackman-Woods – Labour

Ben Bradshaw – Labour

Tom Brake – Lib Dems

Chris Bryant – Labour

Karen Buck – Labour

Richard Burden – Labour

Vince Cable – Lib Dems

Ruth Cadbury – Labour
Alistair Carmichael – Lib Dems

Ann Clwyd – Labour

Ann Coffey  – Labour

Neil Coyle – Labour

Mary Creagh – Labour

Stella Creasy – Labour

Janet Daby – Labour

Ed Davey – Lib Dems

Geraint Davies – Labour

Stephen Doughty – Labour

Rosie Duffield – Labour
Angela Eagle – Labour

Maria Eagle – Labour

Julie Elliott – Labour

Louise Ellmann – Labour

Tim Farron – Lib Dems

Paul Flynn – Labour

Mike Gapes – Labour

Roger Godsiff – Labour

Kate Green – Labour

Justine Greening – Conservative

Dominic Grieve – Conservative

Paul Farrelly – Labour

Helen Hayes – Labour

Wera Hobhouse – Lib Dems 

Margaret Hodge – Labour

Rupa Huq – Labour

Christine Jardine – Lib Dems

Darren Jones – Labour

Susan Elan Jones – Labour

Peter Kyle – Labour

Norman Lamb – Lib Dems

David Lammy – Labour

Chris Leslie – Labour

Caroline Lucas – Green

Kerry McCarthy – Labour

Siobhan McDonagh – Labour

Alison McGovern – Labour

Catherine McKinnell – Labour
Anna McMorrin – Labour

Madeleine Moon – Labour

Layla Moran – Lib Dems

Stephen Morgan – Labour

Ian Murray – Labour

Jess Phillips – Labour

Bridget Phillipson – Labour

Stephen Pound – Labour

Steve Reed – Labour

Ellie Reeves – Labour
Rachel Reeves – Labour

Liz Saville Roberts – Plaid Cymru

Joan Ryan – Labour

Virendra Sharma – Labour

Barry Sheerman – Labour

Tommy Sheppard – SNP
Tulip Siddiq – Labour

Andy Slaughter – Labour

Angela Smith – Labour

Jeff Smith– Labour

Owen Smith – Labour

Alex Sobel – Labour
Anna Soubry – Conservative

Jo Stevens – Labour

Jamie Stone – Lib Dems

Wes Streeting – Labour

Jo Swinson – Lib Dem
Gareth Thomas – Labour

Stephen Timms – Labour
Anna Turley – Labour
Chuka Umunna – Labour

Catherine West – Labour

Martin Whitfield – Labour
Paul Williams – Labour
Phil Wilson – Labour

Sarah Wollaston – Conservative

Daniel Zeichner – Labour