We are not for Lexit

In the recent EU election, the 'Surrey Advertiser' incorrectly stated that the Socialist Party stood for “Lexit” as a “pro-worker EU exit”. We requested a correction of the inaccuracy.

“I am afraid your description of our policy in your piece on the European elections last week was mistaken. We were not advocating so-called “Lexit” (a leftwing Brexit). We are not a petty British nationalist party. We were for neither Leave nor Remain as, in both cases, capitalism and so the problems it causes would continue. It exists in the EU and would in a Brexit Britain. What we were proposing as the alternative to both Leave and Remain was replacing the capitalist system of ownership by the few and production for profit by common ownership, democratic control and production directly to meet people’s needs, not just in Europe but throughout the world.”

No correction has so far been made which has led to the Socialist Party to proceed with a formal complaint, with the view of obliging the newspaper to correct its error.