Carryfast:
Firstly like Rjan you seem to conveniently miss the point that neo Cons don’t have the monopoly on a Brexit agenda there are also still real Labour people like Kate Hoey around in that regard.The difference being that a real Labour government would have the power to do something in Brexit Britain as opposed to now with the establishment elites among the EU commission ruling the country in which case we don’t even get that choice if we remain.
muckles:
I’m quite well aware of the Left wing case for leaving the EU, it was part of the Labour manifesto in the 80’s, but Brexit isn’t being driven by the Left wing agenda, it’s been driven by the Globalist Free market Conservative agenda and there is no way that they won’t it messed up by a Left wing agenda.
We don’t have a Left wing Labour government in power, so they can’t push a left wing case even if they choose to; they’re as divided as the Conservatives over this.
Also our media will never promote the left wing case for it, because those on the Conservative part of the media won’t promote a case where their opposition has the same policy as they have, as it will open up a Pandora’s box of questions about how little globalisation has benefited ordinary people. Wage growth in real terms for most workers has been stagnant for decades in many of the developed countries, over 40 years in the US and 20 years in Germany and Japan, but the weath of the Worlds richest people have increased.
The more left wing leaning media, (but not proper left wing) won’t make the left wing case for leaving the EU, as they are pro EU and they don’t want their readers seeing a case they might support for leaving the EU, they’ve all been very vocal about what a UK trade agreement with the US might mean but very quiet about CETA and the EU wanting to restart TTIP negotiations, which will probably have a similar deal to a UK/US trade agreement.
The only place you’ll see a Left wing case is in the Morning Star and Socialist Worker.
So like it or not, we have a Brexit driven by the Globalist Free market, de-regulation agenda.
Carryfast:
As for whether we stay with the global free market or not.We’re obviously in a much worse situation in the case of remaining thereby adding our EU trade deficit to our far Eastern one and paying a fortune in net contributions for the privilege of that and being ruled by zb Juncker and Merkel.
muckles:
How do we know, we’re going into a very different World than we were in before we joined?
The media like to call it a divorce so we’ll use that analogy, so like a newly divorced person going it alone after a long marriage, it will take time to build a new life and it can go either way, we will either get out and make a new life and have great ■■■, or sit at home with loads of cats, loads of pills and a bottle of whiskey, crying about where it went so wrong. Lets hope it’s the former.
Carryfast:
If Brexit was being being driven by the neo Cons then how do you explain people like Hoey and John Boyd happily sharing the agenda with David Davis in the GO movement.Or for that matter the fact that that the majority of the Leave vote is made up of real Labour supporters like me as opposed to the remainers among the Cons and Blairites.In which case the remainers have got a bleedin nerve accusing Brexiteers of being neo Cons when the remain side has people like Cameron,Osborne,the CBI and Blair on its side in addition to the banker establishment elites.
As for the idea of secession and national sovereignty v foreign federal rule having any connection whatsoever with marriage that’s as ridiculous as all the other pro EU propaganda.IE there’s a big difference between a mistaken marriage and divorce among couples v the choice between taking our own country back.As opposed to giving it up to be a state of a USE run in the interests of German bankers.
The leave campaign might have had the Left wing join it, but most of the media was more interested in concentrating on the likes of Farage and Johnson, than Hoey and Boyd, as it suited their agenda, whether that was for Leave or Remain.
Yes many leave voters were from traditionally Labour parts, even though many in the Labour party refused to recognise it and even resorted to insults, calling them xenophobic and showed how out of touch they were with their core supporters and the reasons why they voted for leave.
But where is the Left wing view now in the leave negotiations? Where is the reporting of the Left wing view in the mainstream media? Why is the talk of getting trade deals with other countries once we’ve left the EU.
Ok so you don’t like the marriage analogy, and you are totally convinced that everything will be hunky dory once we’ve left, I admire your confidence, but some of us want more information about what happens after we leave, how it will affect our working lives, which in my case is mostly spent travelling around Europe.