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Should the UK remain a member of the EU


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  1. 1. Should the UK remain a member of the EU

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1 hour ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

"Radical supply-side reform was the whole point of Brexit".

But I thought everyone was getting massive pay rises and the whole worker-employer power structure had been redrawn in the favour of the proletariat. Surely Brexit wasn't a neo-liberal con job all along?

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1 hour ago, Mudface said:

But I thought everyone was getting massive pay rises and the whole worker-employer power structure had been redrawn in the favour of the proletariat. Surely Brexit wasn't a neo-liberal con job all along?

 

The whole worker-employer structure is being withdrawn.

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18 minutes ago, Gnasher said:

Bring it on. 

It's shit though. Our grandparents and parents fought for these basic rights and now we're going to have to fight hard just to keep them. We're running to stand still, at best; there's really no hope of winning new rights to improve on the ones we already enjoyed (until 51.9% of the electorate voted to give the Tories the power to take them from us).

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33 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

It's being rebalanced in the employers' favour.

I assume he means 'redrawn' there. Although 'withdrawn' is actually a better term, seeing as it's going to be replaced with an employer-serf model, with people forced to accept increasingly worse employment terms and no possibility of legal redress.

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1 hour ago, Gnasher said:

No it's not.

 

The working class have found a voice, a voice that had been silent for 30 years. Bring it on.

 

 

 

 

For all your bombastic "bring it on" nonsense (and for all the efforts to promote Tony Benn's "two fires" that I have to do, as a union branch secretary) the reality is that the working class is on the back foot.  We're not "finding our voice" - we're fighting defensive actions against the most virulently anti-worker Government for decades, to try to protect our members from genuine poverty; and "the whole point of Brexit" is to stack the odds against us.

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1 hour ago, Nelly-Matip said:

More wins- https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/04/travellers-delays-uk-border-control-calais-brexit

 

It's still absolutely amazing that the country voted to make things so much more difficult for itself, even more so that people still think it was a good idea in the face of all the evidence.

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A Kent brewery chosen to help champion export opportunities for the government after Brexit has revealed that burdensome customs checks and paperwork have left it with just one remaining customer in the EU.

The Old Dairy Brewery in Kent – a Department for International Trade export champion for the south-east – appeared in a government video last year promoting the potential to boost Brexit export sales.

However its exports of bottled and keg Kent ale to countries including Italy, Germany and Sweden have slumped since the UK left the EU because of the onerous paperwork.

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7 hours ago, Mudface said:

More wins- https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/04/travellers-delays-uk-border-control-calais-brexit

 

It's still absolutely amazing that the country voted to make things so much more difficult for itself, even more so that people still think it was a good idea in the face of all the evidence.

What's even more astounding are the people who think getting brexit done was a positive 

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1 hour ago, Gnasher said:

Similar in Italy, Denmark and France. The EU has ignored the poor, 

 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/30/italy-eu-face-big-risk-of-potential-far-right-victory-ex-pm

 

 

The EU isn't in government in any of those countries. However neoliberal the EU has undoubtedly become, the bottom line is that it's the government of any Member State that chooses to either support or exploit working class people. 

 

Also, that article is about the threat that the Far Right pose to the EU. (Nothing there to support the suggestion that, if I remember rightly, you have previously made, that EU membership gives rise to the Far Right.) What is it about the EU that unites all of Europe's Fascists against it?

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