‘I want a fairer Europe,’ British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, with the UK in the EU.

British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has told euronews that he wants to see a “fairer” and “more democratic” Europe, which the UK remains a part of. The Labour party has said that it will push for Britain to stay in the EU, regardless of the outcome of Cameron’s negotiations.

Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party Leader: “I want to see a more democratic Europe, a more socially just Europe, a fairer Europe, but I do not think that is achieved by leaving. Our party conference voted that we should remain in the European Union, but that we should campaign on the agenda of a more social Europe.”

“Human beings who are desperate, fleeing from wars and disasters, they should be shared out across Europe. “I think that Germany should be congratulated on the number of refugees it has been prepared to take in. “And my own country didn’t join in the European Union programme, instead it set a figure of 20,000 to be taken over four years, taken directly from refugee camps in Lebanon and in Jordan.

euronews: “Do you think that your country should participate in the European Union quota system for the resettlement of refugees?”

Jeremy Corbyn: “Yes, I would and I made that point very clear in parliament on many occasions indeed. This is a crisis, facing ordinary people. Those ordinary people deserve support and the humanitarian sympathy of all of us.”

http://www.euronews.com/2015/12/17/i-want-a-fairer-europe-british-labour-leader-jeremy-corbyn-tells-euronews/

Corby is pretty far left and offers a healthy alternative to the Conservative government and its policies.