Re: You expected the tablets of revised Old Testament falling from heavens? Archived Message
Posted by Sennacherib on March 24, 2019, 5:58 pm, in reply to "You expected the tablets of revised Old Testament falling from heavens?"
Bastani made four basic claims and offered evidence for each. Dealing with claim 1 Dovetail assumed that the present Greek people deserve be punished for the fiscal sins of earlier Greek elites; for him that presumably goes to show that the Commission is a fair and democratic organisation doing no more than collect what was due. He tells us the UK will never be weak enough to be bullied. One can think of facts which might support that vew but he does not state them. He wants an exchange of attitudes, and that is what he gets. He attacks a straw man who somewhere claimed that Leaving the EU would inevitably lead to socialism. The relevant question is, will staying in the EU make life harder or easier for a UK socialist government trying to inch forward. Few here will deny that the defunct and secretive TTIP 1 aimed at prising open our public sector for transnational predators. The question is how far we must to defy EU competition law in order to extend that sector and transform the economy. A second question with which Bastani does not deal, but which should be a concern for the left, is the extent to which UK people will be hurt by leaving the intricated supply chains established over the last forty years with, say, Ireland, which is still a more important market than China. Neither brexiteers nor lexiteers as far as I can find have been clear why UK will do significantly more trade with China outside the EU than as a member. I don’t have enough facts to form a definite view on this "mad conundrum". I am not going to find them here. Nobody here knows anything; but we can all try to link to people who do know something.
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