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Today is the last day of @FFsake_ as we know it.
Two years ago, @AmandaCC92, @Jason_Arthur & @Just_RichardB met in a pub.
None of them could've dreamed the heights that #FFS scaled from it's humble beginnings.
Today is the last day of @FFsake_ as we know it.
Two years ago, @AmandaCC92, @Jason_Arthur & @Just_RichardB met in a pub.
None of them could've dreamed the heights that #FFS scaled from it's humble beginnings.
Our mission was simple - to mobilise the talents and passions of young people from all backgrounds, across the UK - to hold the Government to account and deliver a #FinalSay Referendum.
Ultimately, we weren't successful - but we're so proud of everything our activists achieved:
Ultimately, we weren't successful - but we're so proud of everything our activists achieved:
🔥 Mobilising thousands of young people to take political action.
📺Getting hundreds of diverse & under-represented voices heard in our media.
📢 Influencing every opposition political party and leading politicians to support a #FinalSay
📺Getting hundreds of diverse & under-represented voices heard in our media.
📢 Influencing every opposition political party and leading politicians to support a #FinalSay
We hope that #FFS has not just been a platform for voices which are routinely marginalised & ignored (and coincidentally, the people most negatively affected by Brexit) - but a bridge, for the next generation of leaders to take their rightful place at the centre of UK politics.
It would be remiss of us to not give a final shout out to Roland Rudd, Patrick Heneghan and the rest of the Open Britain Board, who managed to destroy the biggest political campaign in the country, in a matter of days.
More than most, what happens next will be on you.
More than most, what happens next will be on you.
A genuine thank you to our supporters and activists who helped us create a new kind of politics - diverse, cross-party, open and inclusive - and to our friends and family for supporting us whilst we went and did A Mad Thing which took over all our lives for two years.
We can't be grateful enough to the staff of the rest of the #PeoplesVote campaign (#Millbank43) who didn't just allow us the space to lead, but actively encouraged us to do so.
And a final note to our brilliant staff members, old and new.
They are and were immensely talented, hard as nails, graceful under pressure, charming and delightful.
At some point in the future they will run the country, and it will be a better place for it.
They are and were immensely talented, hard as nails, graceful under pressure, charming and delightful.
At some point in the future they will run the country, and it will be a better place for it.
We will be hosting a thank you and farewell event soon, releasing an impact report of all the cool things we got to do and sharing plans for our next steps on #FFSAnotherBrexitPodcast at FFSakes.uk/podcast
For now though, we will sign off with this;
FFS, What a campaign.
FFS, What a campaign.
