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We’ll vote to leave to save Britain’s rail
MICK WHELAN explains why train drivers’ union Aslef wants a Brexit
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ASLEF is backing the campaign to leave the European Union in the referendum on June 23. Not because we are standing shoulder to shoulder with Nigel Farage — a man memorably described by the Economist as “a saloon bar bore” and with whom we have nothing in common, politically or industrially — but because we believe the EU has become a rich man’s club.
Its a club which offers lots for the boss class — for the neoliberals whose siren calls echo around the corridors of power in the capitals of Europe — but little for ordinary hard-working men and women trying to earn a living in this Conservative age of austerity.
At the heart of our objections are a couple of proposals emerging from Brussels which we think will be bad for Britain in general, and bad for the railway in particular — the European Commission’s Fourth Railway Package and the TTIP trade deal between the EU and the US.
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