Tuesday 22 January 2019

Brexit; plan May Day.

The want of any strategic vision of Britain's Prime Minister Teresa May, is obvious. But her dismal Parliamentary tactics are working away. They are designed to maintain her role as the UK's most important politician regardless of cost. The results of this dogged daily heave to victory may be grim for her but they are potentially destructive and dangerous for most of the people in the country that she aches to lead.

The danger for most Britons does not lie in any sensible step away from the EU. In reality the EU leadership would happily join the barrage that big Capital will launch in the event of a Corbyn government. Indeed, the EU would provide the key laws designed (among others by Margaret Thatcher) that 'prove' Corbyn's program is illegal!

But, as a matter of fact, should Britain remain in the EU, the current upheaval against austerity across the European Continent, despite the rise of the right, already reduces the power of Europe's traditional political and economic rulers. A Corbyn government (whether 'out' or 'in') would still find significant allies for its direction of travel across the EU and beyond. But it would need to start from the repudiation, not just opposition, of key EU statutes.

The real danger for most people in Britain now lies in the eruption of a wild, blinkered, madness created by the Tory Party right, as they haul and grab their way to the abundant riches promised by a European Singapore. This certainly does start from a 'no deal' Brexit.

This is the direction that the Tories and their government will travel (however May footles around with her blown-out plan). Why? For two reasons. First the biggest single economic force in Britain is centred in the City - of London. Inevitably that will be prime mover for Britain's new attempt to 'open itself to the whole world'. It is the only engine in the British economy available to to make the 'deals' which Messrs Trade Minister Fox et al slaver over. Second, May and her wretched plan have no coherent or strategic content. It was dissolved in Parliament where it is now allowed to be resurrected out of the ancient murk of Britain's tottering democracy, but it will be crushed definitively by the real world of international Capitalism - if the Tory government survives. And in its place will come the real objective, currently being prepared by the Tory right-wing.

Coming out of the EU successfully - from the point of view of ordinary British people - has to start from the end of the Tory government and the creation of a government that will lead the drive against austerity and the wealth and power of the City.

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