Jeremy Corbyn is a stooge for the interests of the ruling class. His claim to want to remain in the neoliberal European Union despite decades of Bennite opposition to its policies of featherbedding the rich and eternal austerity for everyone else proves it. His call for a Second Referendum is for the advantage of the already wealthy and their banker chums not the poor he claims to care so much about.
Nothing I have written on this blog or am about to write is pro-Brexit nor is it anti-Brexit. Brexit is an irrelevance. The real problems are caused by decades of neoliberal, ‘gush up’ economics designed to enrich the few and pauperise the many.
The ruling class only care about money and most of them think leaving the EU will cost them money. A minority of the ruling class think they can make more money outside the EU, that’s the only reason Johnson, Rees-Mogg et al support it. Jeremy Corbyn is now one of the bought-and-paid-for mouthpieces of the faction of the Establishment that wants to stay in the EU.
If truth be told, Corbyn is probably the senior politician most opposed to the EU in the whole of Britain.
In the 1975 Referendum put forward by Harold Wilson’s Labour government, Corbyn opposed Britain’s membership of the then EEC.
In 1993, Corbyn opposed the Maastricht Treaty that created the European Union, commenting…
“…the whole basis of the Maastricht Treaty is the establishment of a European central bank which is staffed by bankers, independent of national Governments and national economic policies, and whose sole policy is the maintenance of price stability[.] That will undermine any social objective that any Labour Government in the United Kingdom—or any other Government—would wish to carry out… The Maastricht Treaty does not take us in the direction of the checks and balances contained in the American federal constitution[.] It takes us in the opposite direction of an unelected legislative body—the [European] Commission—and, in the case of foreign policy, a policy Commission that will be, in effect, imposing foreign policy on nation states that have fought for their own democratic accountability”
At the Labour Party Conference in 1996, Corbyn said…
“We have a European bureaucracy totally unaccountable to anybody, powers have gone from national parliaments – they haven’t gone to the European Parliament, they’ve gone to the Commission and to some extent the Council of Ministers. These are quite serious matters.”
Corbyn opposed the Lisbon Treaty in 2008.
He backed a proposed referendum on British withdrawal from the European Union in 2011.
In 2015, he accused the institution of acting “brutally” in the Greek financial crisis, accusing the EU of allowing financiers to destroy its economy.
On 24th June 2016, a day after the vote to leave the EU, a smirking Corbyn demanded that Article 50 be triggered immediately.
In September 2016, Corbyn urged the government to abandon existing EU rules on state aid, saying the rules will be “no longer valid,” after Britain leaves the bloc.
In 2018, Corbyn said his main reason for not committing to remaining in the single market was freedom from EU rules on state aid to industry. He said the UK government should not be “held back, inside or outside the EU, from taking the steps we need to support cutting edge industries and local business.”
Jeremy Corbyn is not the man of principle his supporters say he is. He has abandoned his near lifelong opposition to the European Union and his Labour Party is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of the British Establishment.
Oh, and anyone who thinks Jess Phillips, owner of the fakest regional accent since Dick Van Dyke is ‘working class’ has never met an actual working class person. She is about as working class as Jacob Rees-Mogg. “Yer a toff, Mr Johnson, an’ no mistakin’.”
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