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THIS weekend crunch negotiations are taking place in Brussels ahead of next week’s EU summit.
The outcome is unpredictable. On both sides the stakes are high — and they largely concern the financial interests of banks and big business.
What they are definitely not about is the right of working people to exercise democratic control over their economy. On this the deal has already been done.
It is set out in Theresa May’s white paper. Prior to the negotiations the British government had already made it crystal clear that the right-wing neoliberal philosophy of the EU will continue to be enforced in Britain.
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