Crowds gather in London as Britain leaves the EU after 47 years of membership
In the hours before the United Kingdom’s formal departure from the European Union, hundreds of politically-minded Britons flocked to the streets and public spaces of London’s Westminster district, the centuries-old home of the country’s legislature.
It has been an often contentious and occasionally fraught three-and-a-half years since a slim majority of voters opted for a future outside the world’s largest political bloc. And on a night when that nation-altering 2016 referendum vote would become a reality, there were far more supporters of Brexit out in public than there were opponents.
Dozens of national flags in the U.K.’s familiar red, white and blue pattern provided splashes of color across Parliament Square on an otherwise grey wintry evening; some flapping from the permanent mast poles around the perimeter, others draped around the necks of Brexit’s most ardent supporters.
BREXIT is the nationalist rejection to neoliberal free markets exploited by UK Billionaires. To fully appreciate the scale of manipulation here, one has to appreciate why British Billionaires backed Brexit.
The only real threat to the power of the 1% within Britain was EU regulation to force transparency and close tax havens, thus the 1% wanted to get Britain out of the EU so that their influence and power wouldn’t be challenged, that’s why they stumped up for the Brexit campaign using Boris and Farage as front people while exploiting Cambridge Analytica’s ability to target angry white working men who had been left behind by globalisation.
Newsroom NZ recently claimed social media’s ability to turn elections was overblown because research shows it can’t persuade people who have already made up their minds. What such analysis utterly misconstrues is that the Right aren’t using social media to persuade anyone, it is using it to find older white male voters who don’t vote!
Manipulating nonvoting working class resentment into making a decision like Brexit to ensure the power of the 1% is as Machiavellian as it gets. Boris has played the exact same trick Trump did which shouldn’t surprise anyone because the same social media mining company plotted both strategies.
National are currently playing the same game.
Brexit is a blindsiding of Westminster Democracy for a neoliberal plutocracy hell bent on taking power no matter what the price. Dark days are ahead for Britain under neoliberal Boris and Labour’s impending implosion into sectarian fighting will ensure two terms.
God save the Queen, because she can no longer save the UK.
” God save the Queen, because she can no longer save the UK ”
Yes Bomber and we all now know that god failed in his duty too defend New Zealand from the cartel of the 1%
In the year ahead the only light on the horizon is Bernie and the light is only lit by a candle that could be blown out in the long march too November.
If Bernie fails he has done enough to ensure the movement keeps going and the effects of this evil empire will not disappear but continue too apply its boot too the throat of its non rich victims.
If it’s a Bernie Tulsi ticket then those fears of Sanders health won’t be as accute. This is what incrementalism has done to the left and why BREXIT couldn’t have promoted radical change from the outset. This was the last chance for Britain to bring its manufacturing back onshore. Britians current productivity figures have no way of paying for a 30% WTO whack on British imports with out an industrial policy to match its post BREXIT trade deals. Oh Britian, where would you have been if Corbyn was PM.
So, you really, really think the EU is the champion of the masses??
That life can only get better under the EU.
This is the same EU that promotes Corporate driven Free market policies, expendable-exportable labour. If anything, the EU is just another political hurdle to creating any sort of even playing field for the masses..be it Tax or Labour
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/nov/28/12-eu-states-reject-move-to-expose-companies-tax-avoidance
https://www.alter-eu.org/corporate-capture-in-europe-when-big-business-dominates-policy-making-and-threatens-our-rights-0
Certainly, yes, the EU as it is, is not a champion of the masses.
Still, it was – and to a certain degree still is – a constructive field of operation and cooperation for the European and international Left.
Unfortunately, the combined Left presently lacks the strategic vision to better use the international opportunity of the EU as an institutional actor toward liberté, égalité, fraternité on regional and global levels…… including the Pacific.
Frying pan and fire come to mind. As does fooling most of the people most of the time… Long plank, or short plank?
A Brit over here said that the vote for Brexit was much higher than the slim majority because of Scotland’s uncertainties, and he felt that aside, that it was a much higher pro-Brexit than apparent. I have been watching for ages and looking at the figures, and wasn’t in agreement but when people are sure, how do you argue against them without the facts at your fingertips, and even having a smartphone there isn’t time to check.
It shows how easy it is for people to be swayed. Someone wants to make a decision and will listen to a friend who is certain. And a lot of energy went into what form Brexit should take, rather than the effects of the divorce from Europe. Maybe the family ties were valuable after all.
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