Re: Look what good membership has done for the Irish working class....nm Archived Message
Posted by dovetailjoint on March 23, 2019, 8:53 pm, in reply to "Look what good membership has done for the Irish working class....nm"
The 'point' of EU membership is obvious. The European Union is by far the biggest market for UK goods and services, so it makes perfect sense to be integrated into it. After half a century of integration, the idea that breaking away from all that is going to benefit the UK in some magical way is... fanciful. And all this dogma about the 'working class' is tiresome. Is there even a significant 'working class' in the UK anymore? Aren't they really the un-working class? A third of the population who've been left behind? The forgotten people? Have any of you even been to Ireland or know anything about it? Ireland has changed massively since it joined the European Union, not least socially, were the stranglehold the Catholic Church had on life there has been broken for ever. The standard of living for most people in Ireland is much higher than it was fifty years ago and most of that is linked to EU membership.
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