Posted on 01/30/2020 11:54:44 AM PST by 11th_VA
Journalist Steve Edginton interviews Brendan O’Neil with his historical recap of what lead to Brexit, from the UK’s entrance into the EU in 1975 thru the vote to leave - excellent interview
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FYI - great interview you might enjoy
Interview you might enjoy
Tomorrow at midnight ( 7 PM ET ) is Brexit Day, so for better or worse it’s finally a done seal starting Saturday. I’m for it.
“’Leave and take your flags with you’: Furious EU parliament chair CUTS OFF Nigel Farage during his triumphant last speech to Brussels after 21 years - for waving the Union Flag”
Nigel was great !!!
I understand why the EU guy got so pissed. The speech was an in-your-face “sack dance”.
My general rule is that defeating an opponent is enough. Publicly humiliating them with a “sack dance” makes me feel good but doesn’t do much except make it much harder to deal with the loser in the future. Gracious in victory is a good policy.
It’s also kind of bad manners.
The EU will cease to exist very soon.
“The EU will cease to exist very soon.”
Does that mean the Kalergi plan failed?
Problem is all through the process the EU acted like jerks and deserve at least an ass in the face so they got away easy.
“Problem is all through the process the EU acted like jerks and deserve at least an ass in the face so they got away easy.”
You are right about their behavior. But they were beat badly. Farage was, imo, childish.
Thank you FRiend!
The way these opponents behaved was appalling. Constantly plotting and conniving to overturn the result by ignoring and subverting democracy and calling people who voted leave racist idiots. They deserve to have their face rubbed in it after the abuse and plotting they got up to.
Brendan O'Neill is a British columnist. He is the editor of Spiked Online and has been a columnist for The Australian and The Big Issue.
Once a Trotskyist Marxist, O'Neill was formerly a member of Revolutionary Communist Party and wrote for the party's journal, Living Marxism. O'Neill self identifies as a Marxist libertarian[1][2] and writes for a range of publications.
The communist party of Britain was always against the EU -- Why Communists back Brexit
communists share Clement Attlee’s visceral opposition to Euro-federalism and the surrender of our country’s sovereignty. To this we add a long history of opposition to the actually existing slash-and-burn capitalist economics that has stripped our country of productive industry and deprived generations of young people of productive skills.
It is precisely because we want an alternative to Britain’s crazily unbalanced and financialised economy that we campaigned for Britain to leave the neoliberal EU and in doing so free ourselves from the anti-union judgments of the ECJ, the restrictions on state aid to industry, the obstacles to public ownership and the drive to militarise the EU.
The EU is an irreformable instrument for impoverishing the continental periphery and the working people of each country to the benefit of a predatory class whose wealth increases with every one of capitalism’s succeeding crises.
Communists want a People’s Brexit. Unconstrained by EU treaties, single market rules and directives, a left-led Labour government could develop a worker-led industrial strategy; aid industry, invest in training, youth and jobs, social welfare, housing, education and health services; and take the transport, energy and postal service profiteers back into public ownership.
Nick Wright
Head of communications, Communist party of Britain
Now way. Farage deserved his moment and it was a pleasure to watch it. Screw those tyrants.
Happy Brexit Day!
I ran across this one yesterday, thought it was excellent...
Deplorables: Trump, Brexit and the Demonised Masses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afMofYie4Lc
The narrative around Brexit on both sides is highly tainted with political falsehoods.
for instance, on the remain side the calls were that the Brits and leavers were racist - or, as the interviewee said that the defamation was that Brexit voters were stupid, fascistic etc. — that was false. As I’ve said on other posts, my experience living in the UK is that Brits are the least racist I’ve seen in Western Europe
On the leave side there were a number of eu myths (like the lovely banana curves) and “lack of democracy” stories - forgetting that the uk had a veto throughout.
The fault for this antagonism (related to but not the same as the reasoning for Brexit) lies in three places:
1. the EU itself -
a. there is no need for an EU parliament - keep it undemocratic where the elected heads (the EU council) remain and agree on policies unanimously or not.
b. it sucks at PR
c. it tried too hard
2. British politicians who cynically blamed the eu whenever they (the British politicians) wanted to implement their own policies
3. British MSM who played the sides for newspapers.
Now as to WHY people voted Brexit - while the above were significant reasons, the #1 was immigration - not necessarily from the EU, but the fact that the referendum was the first time the public were able to convey what they thought of decades of open immigration.
It wasn’t racist - more like consternation over the rapid change.
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