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THE draft guidelines published yesterday, for how the EU will approach negotiations for Britain’s exit, confirm how necessary it is to leave that anti-working class, anti-democratic organisation.
As might be expected from a body founded on the principles of so-called “free market” fundamentalism, the document unveiled by the unelected President of the European Council gives special priority to the interests of “business.”
These are referred to explicitly on five separate occasions in Donald Tusk’s rather brief paper, alongside the interests of the EU and its citizens generally.
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
