Gary Younge transcends the usual Leave/Remain thrashed to death drivel and provides a thought-provoking piece concerning the EU and Brexit.
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Gary Younge: Brexit will expose the EU’s democratic deficit
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Frances Coppola: The terrible price of austerity
Was Hitler the product of austerity? In her blog Frances Coppola asks if austerity played an important role in Hitler’s rise to power. She comes to the conclusion that it did and warns: “Learn from […]
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Richard Murphy: Schäuble gets it wrong, even in hindsight
Wolfgang Schäuble, the leader of Europe’s austerity campaign and devastator of Greece, is retiring. Neither he, nor the German media, have any doubt that he saved Europe from itself. Richard Murphy is neither German, nor […]
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Aditya Chakrabortty: The epitaph for Tory austerity has been written, and it’s damning
This is what Brexit is really about, but this has been a hand in hand exercise of the British elite and the EU political class. Read here
Gary, you mention only one aspect of thd EU that is bad. The unmentioned character is its ‘Ordoliberalism’ – extreme right wing economic, permanent austerity, ideology, forced on the EU by Germany, and entrenched in treaties, such that reform is almost impossible. Please read a bit more of Bill Mitchell and Wolfgang Schreek to get a full picture. By leaving the EU, the British people at least have a simple opportunity of ridding themselves of their very own ‘Ordoliberals’ in the Tory Party, and of course the so called moderate left of the Labour Party so beloved of The Guardian. The EU is full of good initiatives and protections – womens rights, the environment, science, human rghts and more. But allthis good stuff has offered a lovely smokescreen to hide the real purpose and nature of the EU, which is about democracy (lack of – instead dictatorship of the elite and technocrats), and economic (neoliberalism, and its pathetic handmaiden New Keynsianism). Identity politics cleverly diverted attention from all the nastiness of democracy and economics in not only the EU, but the US, the UK, and most other Western states.