Our Future Our Choice

Our Future Our Choice
OFOC's Logo
OFOC's Logo
Abbreviation OFOC
Formation 19 October 2017 (2017-10-19)
Founders Femi Oluwole, Calum Millbank-Murphy, Lara Spirit and Will Dry
Type Campaign group
Purpose Pro-European Union advocacy group for young people
Location
  • Millbank Tower, 21-24 Millbank, London, England, SW1P 4QP
Spokesman
 Femi Oluwole
Spokesman
 Calum Millbank-Murphy
Co-president
 Lara Spirit
Co-president
 Will Dry
Website www.ofoc.co.uk

Our Future Our Choice (OFOC) is a British pro-European Union advocacy group for young people.[1][2]

History

The Twitter account for OFOC was created 19 October 2017.[3] OFOC was incorporated as a company on 19 February 2018.[4] Its four founding members were Femi Oluwole (spokesman), Calum Millbank-Murphy (spokesman), Lara Spirit (co-president) and Will Dry (co-president).[5][6]

Activities

OFOC has heavily criticised the government’s approach to negotiating Brexit. In July 2018 it protested outside Chequers during a cabinet summit, holding a banner which read ‘Your Brexit Deal Screws Our Future: Explain Yourselves’[7]. In June 2018 OFOC and FFS unfurled a banner which read "Stop backing Brexit" at a festival event organised by the Labour Party nicknamed "JezFest" after the party's leader Jeremy Corbyn.[8][9]

In the same month OFOC produced a host of billboard advertising targeting frontbench Labour MPs, accusing them of "being in the pockets" of hardline Brexiteers. The adverts were similar to those produced by the Conservative Party for the 2015 general election which suggested that the then Labour leader, Ed Miliband, was "in the pocket" of the former leader of the Scottish National Party, Alex Salmond.[10][11]

This has led left wing commentators such as Novara Media’s Aaron Bastani and journalist and author Paul Mason to question the group's anti-Corbyn stance and where the group gets its funding from.[5] Alastair Benn of Reaction has also described the group as "a mirror-image of the Brexiteer-style populism".[12] OFOC have advocated the view that Corbynite radical change would be inhibited by Brexit due to a lack of political bandwidth and the potential negative economic consequences.[13]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Embury, Tom (14 February 2018). "'Our Future, Our Choice': Campaign launched for young people who want Brexit stopped". The Independent. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  2. ↑ Morley, Nicole (16 February 2018). "Campaign launched for young people who want to stop Brexit ruining their future". Metro. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  3. ↑ "@OFOCBrexit". tweettunnel.com. Tweet Tunnel. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  4. ↑ "OUR FUTURE, OUR CHOICE! OFOC! LTD". companycheck.co.uk. Company Check. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  5. 1 2 Staff writer (20 June 2018). "Grassroots or 'astroturf'? Who's really behind the anti-Brexit group 'Our Future Our Choice'". RT. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  6. ↑ "About us". ofoc.co.uk. Our Future Our Choice. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  7. ↑ Bloom, Dan (6 July 2018). "Every single Tory Cabinet minister refuses to meet young people against Brexit". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
  8. ↑ Sanusi, Victoria (17 June 2018). "Labour Live: Protesters held up a 'stop backing Brexit' sign as Jeremy Corbyn spoke". i (newspaper). Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  9. ↑ Williams, Zoe (18 June 2018). "Jeremy Corbyn, take note: leftwing remainers won't stay silent on Brexit". The Guardian. Opinion. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  10. ↑ Bradley, Sorcha (18 June 2018). "Senior Labour MPs accused of 'being in the pocket of Jacob Rees-Mogg' over Brexit stance". Sky News. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  11. ↑ Williamson, David (19 June 2018). "A massive billboard poster will show Llanelli MP Nia Griffith literally in the pocket of Nigel Farage". WalesOnline. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  12. ↑ Benn, Alastair (13 February 2018). "Why 'Our Future, Our Choice' is wrong in trying to stop Brexit". Reaction. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  13. ↑ "Our future, our choice: Labour must listen to young people on Brexit". LabourList. 27 June 2018. Retrieved 5 August 2018.

Further reading

  • Oluwole, Femi (5 February 2018). "Dear Jeremy Corbyn, young people need your help to halt Brexit". The Guardian. Opinion. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  • De Peyer, Robin (17 February 2018). "'Let's take back control of our futures': Young campaigner Femi Oluwole's plan to overturn Brexit". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  • Owen, Cathy (13 February 2018). "There's a lot of love for this man and his views on young people and Brexit". WalesOnline. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
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