A Brexit song for Europe
A CAMPAIGNER hopes his Brexit protest song can crack the Top 40.
Songwriter Peter Cook started group Voices for Europe to highlight the risk of families being torn apart since the UK voted to quit the EU.
New release In Limbo, with lead singer Rachel Ashley, is based on the potential changes facing European families living in the UK.
Peter, from Kent, claims many could be split up when Britain leaves the EU next March.
The song has contributions from 30 Europeans.
They include a boss who moved her business to the US after she was threatened with being set on fire for being foreign, and a French woman who claims Brexit has made her kids’ school life hell.
Peter, who combines business leadership and music in his day job at The Academy of Rock, said: “The song was inspired by a book of the same name which is full of the kind of nastiness we’re seeing now.
“The best outcome for the song would be that it challenges the politicians deciding the future of these families most affected.”
THE number of coffee shops in the UK is set to overtake the number of pubs by the year 2030, research has revealed.
The London Coffee Festival found that every week in Britain 21 new coffee shops are opening, while 21 to 25 pubs are closing.
We now have just over 24,000 coffee shops.