Re: all of the crisis was down to bankers and their friendly regulators - regulation was universally acc Archived Message
Posted by dovetailjoint on August 30, 2019, 6:29 pm, in reply to "Re: all of the crisis was down to bankers and their friendly regulators - regulation was universally acc"
Things can, actually, be substantially worse for the fabled 'working class' and lots of other people too, outside the structure of the European Union, which has protected the UK's economy in a harsh world, and, even though many on the left think differently, protected basic rights for the 'working class' compared to what could have happened. That the Thatcherite neo-liberal 'cure' for the UK's economy would have been much worse without the EU restraining it, is hard for some in the UK to understand or even accept. This dogma that things can't be any worse outside the EU, doesn't make any real sense in my opinion and doesn't describe the real world, perhaps because it's dogma in the first place. As I don't live in the UK, but in Europe, I see things differently. From my perspective virtually everything is better for the 'working class' in northern Europe than in the UK. In fact I can't see anything that's better in the UK than in Europe. I think the UK lags behind across the board in relation to workers' rights, the environment, social policy, and the general economy. Really the UK, instead of promoting workers' rights, has done the opposite in the EU. I think, selfishly, that Europe would be better off without the UK. The British seem have no real understanding of how insignifant they've become. They live in a form of deluded nostalgia for a past that's gone and isn't coming back.
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