Bill Mitchell — Britain Should Spend Upward The Brexit ‘Agreement’ Only Hold Alongside The Exit

It is Wednesday, together with exclusively a brusk spider web log ship beckons today. I accept restrained myself from commenting on Theresa May’s unbelievable Brexit deal, which has the muddied paws of the European Commission all over it. Regular readers volition know that if I had accept been a voter inwards Great Britain inwards June 2016, I would accept resolutely together with happily voted inwards favour of Brexit. And if I was a British Parliamentarian straight off I would vote to turn down the ‘deal’ together with forcefulness the Brexit on British terms. I volition write a piddling to a greater extent than well-nigh that inwards a farther post. But today, I simply desire to transcend comment on the extraordinary U.K. Guardian article from Phillip Inman – A leftwing U.K. post-Brexit is every bit probable every bit a socialist Rees-Mogg(November 24 2018) – which summarises the occupation quite well. I enjoin ‘well’ because it illustrates the progressive give upwards that has allowed the neoliberal era together with monstrosities similar the European Union to persist. You tin meet it all over the house – give upwards that is. The Democratic obsession amongst Paygo inwards the US. The British Labour financial dominion inwards Britain. The ‘we volition accept a bigger surplus’ boast from the Australian Labor Party, when at that topographic point is simply about xv per cent underutilised productive labour. Inman’s article is encouraging the Left inwards Great Britain to prevarication downwardly together with give upwards to the dictates of the neoliberal, corporatist car that is the EU. It presents an impoverished vision of the hereafter together with a disgustingly vapid depiction of the possibilities that a really progressive British Labor authorities could arrive at 1 time it jettisons the neoliberal frames....

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Britain should turn down the Brexit ‘agreement’ but leave of absence along amongst the exit
Bill Mitchell | Professor inwards Economics together with Director of the Centre of Full Employment together with Equity (CofFEE), at University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia