Where there is chaos, the government will multiply it. Where people are pushed to the brink, it will shove them over.
Boris Johnson ignored the pleas of businesses and politicians across the UK – especially in Northern Ireland – to extend the Brexit transition process. Never mind the pandemic, never mind unemployment, poverty and insecurity – nothing must prevent our experiment in unassisted flight. We will leap from the white cliffs on 1 January, come what may.
Perhaps, after so much macho bluster, the government will take the last of its last chances and strike a deal this week. If so, with scarcely any time for refinement, the agreement is likely to be rushed and bodged. In any event, pain will follow. Disruption at the border is likely to be felt across the nation.
So it is worth repeating the big question: why are we doing this to ourselves? I believe the answer is that Brexit is the outcome of a civil war within capitalism.
Perhaps, after so much macho bluster, the government will take the last of its last chances and strike a deal this week. If so, with scarcely any time for refinement, the agreement is likely to be rushed and bodged. In any event, pain will follow. Disruption at the border is likely to be felt across the nation.
So it is worth repeating the big question: why are we doing this to ourselves? I believe the answer is that Brexit is the outcome of a civil war within capitalism.
Wonder what Marx would have thought about Brexit and the current state of affairs?
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ReplyDelete‘.....government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.’
The real problem is the lack of genuine accountability to the people, both from government and the private sector.
‘.....government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.’
The real problem is the lack of genuine accountability to the people, both from government and the private sector.