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Views from the NorthAustin Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14888857320013909260noreply@blogger.comBlogger154125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834326003923926288.post-12636675128278889162018-06-12T01:49:00.005-07:002018-06-12T01:49:58.468-07:00The self-perpetuating myths of neoliberalism
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont;">Neoliberalism is a self-fulfilling
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something else. Possibly the weather.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont;">The current example of thus double edged
sword of untruth is the huge effort now being made to blame everything that
goes wrong from knife crime to the railway timetable fiasco on Brexit. No
medicines. No food. No sauerkraut & Frascati. Dover closed. God help us!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont;">In fact the slow growth of the British
economy and our low productivity are largely due to the fact that Osborne dealt
with the Great Recession (itself the result of neoliberal de-regulation) by
neoliberal austerity which was the exact opposite of the Keynesian expansion
that was necessary. The guiding aim of policy from then to now has been getting
the debt down, rather than growth and investment up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont;">Si monumentum requiris circumspice. But
the genius of neoliberal double think allows it to be blamed on Brexit with
worse to come after the Grand Depart. That prediction comes from a treasury
model from whence all miseries flow because it’s built on neoliberal
assumptions about “rational choice” , the dangers of debt and the naughtiness
of state intervention. Rubbish in rubbish out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont;">There’s no other way to get growth back
on track than by borrowing, spending to invest and stimulating via the
multiplier. Keynes lives. That’s also the way to ride out any difficulties due
to Brexit. Trade adjusts quickly as it did in Australia and New Zealand in the
seventies when<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Britain betrayed them by
selling out to Europe but it will adjust easier with government help.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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nation which issues its own currency (which the Euro members can’t) can set its
own interest rates and borrowing levels to suit its purposes. It can create the
money it needs to invest and grow. If the neoliberals can create £375 billion
to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>stuff into the banks to improve their
balances, and the banks can pour huge sums into mortgages, we can create even
larger sums to finance big housing contracts, major infrastructure projects,
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont;">This will produce neoliberal cries of
shock and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>horror but why should it?
Expanding the economy allows it to bear a greater burden of debt. Interest
rates can be kept down and any effect on sterling (and the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>great quantitative easing didn’t have much)
is welcome to boost exports and tax imports. The comparatively small fall in
the pound after Brexit boosted production, manufacturing and exports though the
boost is now petering out because manufacturing didn’t seize its opportunity).
As for inflation, no past devaluation has produced a serious problem .Until
productive resources are overstretched there won’t be one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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neoliberalism isn’t the answer to the problems produced by neoliberalism.
Reversal is. It’s what the electorate voted for when it rejected the EU. It’s
necessary if we stay in Europe and more than necessary if we are to ride out
the changes and problems arising from coming out. It would be wrong to start
difficult negotiations before preparing that, and better to conduct them having
triggered it. We mustn’t be so palsied by forty years of neoliberal
indoctrination that we miss yet another chance.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
<!--EndFragment--><br />Austin Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14888857320013909260noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834326003923926288.post-4303471985760833462018-04-30T05:56:00.000-07:002018-04-30T05:56:02.394-07:00URGENT WHAT LABOUR MUST DO NOW
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: AppleSystemUIFont;">URGENT</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont;">Ever since the Blair-Brown takeover,
Labour has tried to avoid pain and conform to the prevailing neoliberal
orthodoxy in an effort to be respectable and avoid frightening people. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont;">This path to power no longer works in
the way it did in 1997 the year of hope. Since then Britain’s economic position
has deteriorated, the people have rejected the old orthodoxies in the Brexit
vote, and the 2017 election has shown that more radical policies are becoming
more acceptable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont;">Which makes it time to tell the truth to
the people. Britain is in a mess. Our economy can neither pay its way in the
world nor support the spending the electorate requires. Our country is
relegated to decline unless tough measures are taken.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont;">First taxes must increase, particularly
on the wealthy and the top five percent who’ve used neoliberal economics to
lavish so much wealth on themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont;">Secondly the economy must be boosted by
industrial policy, a national development bank and state aid to those sectors
which can win a competitive advantage to build national champions in the way
China has.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont;">Third the pound must be made<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>competitive to close the trade gap, tax
imports and boost exports and kept that way on a long term basis by changing
the inflation requirement on the Bank of England to one on competitiveness and
full employment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont;">Fourth boost business by requiring all
profits made in this country to be taxed in this country, changing the
imperatives to long term investment and building company strength. Corporate
governance reform should<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>require workers
on the boards, make takeovers more difficult, stop the sale of other services
to audit clients<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and break up<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Big Four auditors to produce competition
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont;">Fifth replace the imperatives of the
market by developing the public sector and public services, encouraging mutuals
and cooperatives and emphasising community rather than competition by
empowering local government, regulating the privatised sectors more
effectively, developing general rather than means tested benefits<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and restoring worker and union protections to
advance the many rather than empower and enrich<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>the few.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont;">All these are simple verities restoring
Labour basics and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>weakening the both the
exotic spread of identity politics and the desperate desire to win the support
of the middle class and London by punishing the poor and the North. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535; font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont;">Britain
needs a strong, resolute Labour Party not a pale pink meritocracy peddling a
diluted version of Thatcherism or a pale pink Liberal Party. Labour needs a
strong British economy if it is to deliver to the people ,rather than please
the possessing classes.This is a time for boldness not PR peddling.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
<!--EndFragment--><br />Austin Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14888857320013909260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834326003923926288.post-89487149791397601622018-03-03T05:42:00.004-08:002018-03-03T05:42:33.956-08:00How to deal with Eurojelly<br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">We Brits are argueing among ourselves about what kind of Brexit, soft, large or non existent we want. It’s a waste of time. We’ll get what we’re given. Because we’re dealing with an entity which can’t negotiate, that won’t be much.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">We’re not negotiating with naysaying Barnier or jolly junketing Junker but a giant jelly fish .EU authority is divided between twenty seven nations, a Commission which isn’t a government and a council of ministers which claims to be one but isn’t. Hovering in the wings is the pretend parliament which also has a say, though no one’s sure what it is</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">If they all negotiate it would be bedlam. Easier just to say “” and employ a professional naysayer to say it. In French. He then sets up hurdles for us to jump. When we do, he says no again.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">This amorphous mass can only be kept together by firm rules, and Europeans are legalistic, while we Brits are pragmatic .Our question is “does it work?” Rather than what’s the law.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Of course the laws can be fiddled and in the EU they regularly are..No state aid, but the Germans have a Development bank and aid from regional banks.Free movement of people. But Poland and Hungary don’t allow it. Limits on budget deficits .But the French can go over.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">All that’s internal .When it comes to negotiations with entries or leavers its easier to put up a blank refusal to change the rules and let the other party beat its head against a brick wall until they submit. That’s what they’re now doing to us.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Negotiations become a process of wearing the other side down by obfuscation, ever new demands and blank resistance until they either give up, as Greece did, or go away, as they hope we will.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">In a coordinated operation Rampant Remainers help them to achieve this doing the EU’s work for it. They criticise everything the British government proposes, support the EU’s refusal to accept it, and create fear of disaster if we go.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">The aim of this coalition of yesterday’s men is to encourage the EU to be intransigent in the hope that we’ll lose heart,the government will fall and we’ll crawl back to Europe, saying we should have listened to Tony in the first place.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">To sweeten the bitter pill Tony’s now saying the EU should control immigration. He hopes that this will make our humiliated voters a little happier about being humiliated.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">It won’t.Look what happened to Cameron’s desperate attempts to get changes to help him win the referendum. He got peanuts. Tony will too because he runs up against the same inability to negotiate or change which Theresa May is already facing.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">“No can do” is the EU’s answer to everything:change, reform,negotiation Macron, Greece, Cameron even their very own fifth column in Britain.You’ve got to be tough, absolutely determined, carry a big stick and be prepared to use it to get anywhere when you’re dealing with a jellyfish.</span>Austin Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14888857320013909260noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834326003923926288.post-25450785771738913102018-03-03T05:41:00.000-08:002018-03-03T05:41:40.182-08:00<div class="p1">
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Chunks of the Labour Party, or at least Chuka and the chuckusins,see the Single Market, Brexit without Exit, as the way to do what the electors want while staying in the EU. It may be a solution for vested interests and business groups who know better than the people what’s good for the people, but Labour Single Marketeers must beware .Staying in the Single Market means abandoning much of what Labour needs to do to make Britain solvent.</div>
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Labour believes in open trade. The Single Market means agricultural protection and the concealed protectionism of pay to play as countries like Norway must pay big fees to finance marble palaces in Brussels</div>
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Labour<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wants to create jobs. The single Market drains them as Germany accumulates growing surpluses at the expense of deficit countries ,like Britain, running a £60 billion trade deficit on top of membership charges..</div>
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Labour<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>opposes tax races to the bottom. The Single Market<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>allows countries like Ireland and Luxembourg to offer dirty tax deals to companies making their profits in Britain.Free movement of capital is freedom not to pay tax where its due.</div>
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Labour’s voters dislike excessive immigration.The Single Market institutionalises the free movement of Labour</div>
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Labour proposes industrial policy, aid to investment<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and regional policy to rebalance the economy.The Single Market prohibits state aids to industry and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>bans regional employment premiums.</div>
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Labour wants to boost demand to put people back to work. The Single Market drains it away to finance our big contributions and our trade deficit.We’re forced to borrow to pay both.</div>
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Labour wants to boost trade with the rest of the world. The Single Market allows no separate trade deals with other countries.</div>
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Austin Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14888857320013909260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834326003923926288.post-30555960182633883582018-02-01T01:14:00.001-08:002018-02-01T01:14:57.476-08:00Correspondence with CalderValley Momentum<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-size-adjust: auto;">
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Momentum often holds open meetings and you would be more than welcome to attend any of these which are advertised through Facebook and emails to members and supporters. Our Facebook page is open to all who wish to view and comment on posts so it use usually clear to people if a meeting is public or not.</div>
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It is regrettable that one of the candidates attending last night posted something that may have implied, to some, that the meeting was open, though I note that apart from yourselves, no one else made this error.</div>
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I'm sorry I didn't offer to buy you a beer, that was very rude. But as you had nearly a full pint in your hand I didn't feel it was necessary.</div>
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I understand your discomfiture at turning up to what was assured to be an interesting meeting and not being allowed admittance, but 'members only' unfortunately means 'members only'.</div>
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I hope you, and all Labour Party members in Calder Valley do get a chance to hear all the candidates before the hustings as that is the best way of ensuring an open democratic process. And I'm sure you will be as impressed as we were.</div>
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1, I'm not aware that Momentum is acting like an affiliated organisation.</div>
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2 No, we have not had any other meetings with candidates, open or closed. Last night was the first opportunity our members had to meet the candidates.</div>
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3 Momentum is recommending to members that they give their first three votes to the candidates who are Momentum members, in which ever order they choose.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Dear Roger,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Thanks for your prompt reply. Good to know that it’s easier to get emails from Momentum then admission to its meetings</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">I’m sure that you don’t want to be thought of as some kind of secret society but if you’re not to give that impression it’s best not to act like one and that would mean having your meetings open to Labour members and not advertising them on Facebook as”public event”when they aren’t</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">It’s a bit unreasonable of you to blame the candidate for not saying that it was a closed meeting when she was only doing her best to put her case to as many party members as possible, as well as daft to say that I was the only person to be unable to read her mind or understand the contradictory signals you were putting out.Petty debating point that, Lansman wouldn’t like it, though since he wants to recruit more Labour members he might like you to allow people to pay at the door.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">I assume you’re being lightly sarcastic in apologising for not buying me a beer, though of course, you’re perfectly free to do so whenever you want. What you actually said was that I should go downstairs and use the opportunity to drink which you were kindly providing by refusing me admission. upstairs.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Nice of you to express the hope that we all get to hear all the candidates in the two days before the selection but that only makes it more incompressible that you should have stopped my wife and I from hearing those who came to your meeting.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Finally your questions which you answer out of courtesy rather than accuracy.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Q1. Waken up. Momentum is applying to be an affiliated organisation and in making recommendations which candidate members should support and who they should deselect you’re acting like one. Naughty</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">2.So last night was your first ( selective) opportunity to meet the candidates. How many were there and who didn’t get the opportunity?</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">3.Did your recommendation to vote for Momentum members arise from the meeting after hearing them speak. Was there any consideration of this or of the pros and cons of each or all at the meeting.I take it that your membership isn’t secret too, so which of the candidates are Momentum members, locally or nationally? If you’re going to hand out certificates of merit or black spots Labour members should know who’s got them.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Sorry to ask so many questions. Momentum didn’t exist when I were a lad.Happy to correspond or meet. Your campaigning record looks impeccable.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Yours (dare I say it?) fraternally</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Austin</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br /><br />
<br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" />Austin Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14888857320013909260noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834326003923926288.post-14281344590209433092018-01-31T02:11:00.000-08:002018-02-01T00:58:09.276-08:00An Evening with Momentum<br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;">On Tuesday 30 January I responded to an invitation from one of the four candidates on the Calder Valley Labour Party shortlist to hear her speak at a meeting organised by Momentum. On its Facebook announcement Momentum advertised this as a “public event”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;">Going into the meeting with my wife we were refused admission and asked to leave.When we protested we were referred to Roger O’Doherty who appeared to be in charge. He said that we couldn’t attend Momentum meetings if we weren’t members and suggested that would give us time to go downstairs and drink beer. He didn’t offer to buy any but this was, after all, Yorkshire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;">A concerned lady came down to assuage my annoyance and explained that I would not have been admitted to the party’s LGBGT group either. She added that I couldn’t be allowed in because the group would be discussing the candidates.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;">Now I make no criticism of the candidate, who in the short chat I was able to have with her, before the meeting was very nice and an excellent identity candidate.But Momentum is not a Labour Party affiliate and in the light of Labour’s sad experience with parties within the party, from CND through Militant to the SDP it is legitimate to ask why an organisation which believes in an open democratic Labour Party, and wants to increase participation behaves in a fashion which could be viewed as conspiratorial, even sinister.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;">The questions which should be answered at, or before, the Labour Party selection on Saturday are:-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;">1.Why is Momentum behaving like an affiliated organisation when it isn’t?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;">2. Has Momentum held similar meetings for the other three candidates and were these also closed meetings?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;">3.Is Momentum as an organisation in Calder Valley backing one or more candidates, or is it opposing one or more .Will any such advice be publicly announced?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;">As I understand it Momentum is a sectional organisation promoting a series of left wing policies. I am not opposed to these policies but I do see Labour as a broad church with several strands of opinion.These must live together,cooperate with each other and work openly, if our party is to win power in a conservative country with a malign media.</span>Austin Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14888857320013909260noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834326003923926288.post-76398440830850378972018-01-22T12:21:00.001-08:002018-01-22T12:21:12.070-08:00IT IS A PLOT!<br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Britain’s elite and Europe’s have one thing in common. They both know better than the people what the people want. Better say “really want” because they see the transient needs of the little people in jobs, a rising standard of living and a fairer society but they know, what the people don’t that there’s a greater good beyond that. What the people need is a strong European Union moving steadily and happily to ever closer union and if the people don’t always realise that then it’s the responsibility of both elites to guide them there..</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">That noble vision is far more important than any transient popular whims such as cheaper food ,catching our own fish or managing our own destinies. People might have been prepared to die for their country in the past but these are more enlightened times. Now patriotism is old hat and the people need a brotherly ( sisterly and transgender) love for Europe.Even if they don’t quite realise it.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">So any ignoble aberration from this noble instinct must be due to some mental aberration, ignorance, stupidity, Russian bribery, or the uncomprehending malevolence of antediluvian populists. All such whims must be overruled and expunged.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Referenda therefore, can’t be allowed. As President Macron has pointed out even the French might vote against their interest Which is why whenever the Dutch, the Irish or the French have made the mistake of voting against what the EU wants, they have been required to think and vote again to get it right.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">It follows from all this that the two elites are not only entitled but positively required to work together to stop the people being overwhelmed by folly. British Remainers, and Blair’s Resisters must work to discredit and stop Brexit. The Eurocracy are making it difficult to get are both working to heaven’s plan and both should, must and will collude and conspire together to stop it.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">So don’t assume that when Tony Blair goes to Brussels he’s just popping in for a drink or three with his old mate Jean Claude Junker, or reviving his prospects of becoming president of the EU. Don’t assume either that the Remoaners who flock there are just going to take selfies with Barnier in the Grande Place or enjoy fish restaurants they can’t afford. They’re all there to plot the wrecking of Brexit and plan how to achieve that together</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">The joint strategy is for the British fifth column to keep up the fight, terrify the nation by predictions of disaster, ruin, death and chlorinated chicken, and create the impression that the nation is divided and beginning to repent, so as to encourage their Euro mates to drag things out and demand impossible terms . Then, under this combined assault, the poor bemused Brits will repent and crawl back and the EU can get on with its business of making the Euro work, creating a European army and building more marble halls in Brussels.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Dead easy. So far its worked well, split both British parties,lowered Theresa’s aims, terrified the softies into demanding that we stay trussed in the single market, and extinguished UKIP’s will to live. Another year of this and, they think, there’ll be no need to wait for the recalcitrant old to die off. Yesterday’s men can resume their rule as Britain clamours to go back on any terms. They may even be willing to join the Euro , and send our depleted army over as the Pioneer Corps of Macron’s Grand Armee with the band playing Beethoven’s Ninth instead of the National anthem. Democracy? Champagne all round.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Happy Euro-day to one and all!</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;" />Austin Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14888857320013909260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834326003923926288.post-16946332415920110532018-01-09T12:14:00.002-08:002018-01-09T12:14:41.350-08:00Important New Year Message to the Labour Party<div class="MsoNormal">
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If you’re hoping to see Labour climb down from its mugwump position over Brexit
in 2018, forget it. Labour will stay firm in its indecision. The iron may be
rusty but it’s entered Labour’s soul.<br />
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It can’t take any firm position because to do so would split a party which has
always been disunited on the EU. It took a revolt by 69 Labour MPs to take
Britain in, and while Labour stood on a policy of withdrawal in 1983 by 2003 it
had stood on its head to become the most Euro-enthusiastic party around. Now
the divisions are even worse. Euro-enthusiasts led by Peter Mandelson’s deputy
on earth, Chuka Umunna, fight to stay in and many MPs have a romantic vision of
an illusory EU which their constituents don’t share. Some Trade unions have
given up hope of a Labour government and look for crumbs of comfort from
Brussels and several Labour local authorities feel the same<br />
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The number of MPs who want to withdraw has dwindled, but the leader, and his acolytes
having consistently opposed membership, still see it as a capitalist ramp,
hostile to socialist economic measures while a substantial number of others
want to obey the democratic decision of the people in the least disturbing
manner.<br />
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The result is a firm decision not to decide. Jeremy Corbyn has taken a lot of
flack for this from Euro enthusiasts denouncing him for losing the referendum
by his lack of enthusiasm and MPs who want to cling on to the EU attack him for
not demanding that Britain stay in a single market which he thinks will make
industrial regeneration impossible. A few who remain loyal to the old policy of
coming out urge him to back the people’s decision. Others just want rid of the
whole business. This is a party of 57 varieties of Euro-policy.<br />
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Yet neither Labour’s MPs nor the commentariat realise that the old serial rebel
has grown into a leader, and a Labour Party leader at that. Jeremy is committed
to what has been the central aim of every previous leader except Blair and
Ramsey McDonald. He wants to hold a discordant party together to win power.
Instead of condemning him for his radical past they should ask the crucial
Labour question. What’s the would Harold Wilson do?<br />
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The answer is much the same as Jeremy is now doing, though Jeremy does it with
less flair and cunning. In the early sixties Harold opposed membership of what
was then the Common Market. As Prime Minister he attempted to join. He then
reverted in opposition, to staying out. Finally he concealed Labour’s divisions
and his own changes behind a pretended re-negotiation followed by a referendum
This healed the splits and allowed Labour to win power and govern.<br />
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As he transforms from protester to politician Jeremy must ask himself why waste
time and expose the splits over something that’s not central to his purpose of
winning power and rebuilding Britain? Better to take the Wilson approach. Harass
government in its difficulties, divisions and EU intransigence, while keeping
quiet on what Labour would do, how much it would pay for a Get Out of Jail
Card, and what kind of settlement it prefers. Instead of joining the battle,
the opposition can carp and criticise the government’s position. Whatever it
might be.<br />
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That may be unhelpful. It must weaken Theresa’s negotiating position. It will
certainly encourage Brussels to be tougher and Lord Heseltine to support Labour
but, as Lord Kindersley once said of one of his own dirty deals “it may be
anti-British and derogatory to sterling but it makes sense to me” As it would
for any Labour leader who puts party first.<br />
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Of course Jeremy still wants to win power, but not just yet. Labour
won’t-indeed can’t- emerge from its bomb shelter until the Brexit war is over
and either negotiations fail or Theresa comes away with a settlement which is
less than the electorate wants. Why wander onto the battlefield before that?
Why sink in mud to be hit by shrapnel, bombs and abuse when you can help a
baffled government to fail. Just think what Harold would do.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Austin Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14888857320013909260noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834326003923926288.post-23270987129731801162017-10-29T12:38:00.003-07:002017-10-29T12:38:26.817-07:00Endgame or Eurocide?<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT",serif; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">END GAME FOR THE ELECTIVE DICTATORSHIP <br />
<br />
The Brexit negotiations make it clear that the first past the post electoral
system and the elective dictatorship it supports are no longer fit for use.
Britain’s disintegrating party system needs proportional representation to work
effectively and fairly.<br />
<br />
The old system claimed give Britain strong government. It no longer does that.
Since 2010 we’ve had coalitions and Theresa May’s shambling government, and
now, negotiating with a devious oponent we look incapable of toughing our way
out of a paper bag, let alone a game of 27 to 1.<br />
<br />
The EU has grabbed the cards. It requires us to jump three ever rising hurdles,
none of which can be agreed until we know the terms of departure, before we can
even talk about them. It’s already hinting that there will be no concessions on
that if we ever reach it<br />
<br />
It would take a tough single minded government with a clear idea of the
national interest and a determined and united will to fight out of this trap
.Instead the political parties are divided, we argue among ourselves about
whether we want a hard or a soft Brexit , (which only the EU can decide), the
vested interests moan and threaten, the government bids against itself and the
instruments of power are weak and broken.<br />
<br />
The Tories are clearly divided. The Chancellor is cool on the whole enterprise,
the vicar’s daughter hopes to win by being nice, the Brexiteers talk tough and
a small, vocal group want to call the whole thing off and rejoin the Junker
Friendship club.<br />
<br />
The situation is worse on the Labour side. A substantial minority, hope that
the difficulties will be so great that government will give up, and they’re
ready to support anything that contributes to that outcome. A small number are
ready to support the government, more just want to attack the Tories for making
a mess.<br />
<br />
The leadership holds things together by attacking whatever the government does
while secretly hoping that Theresa will hang on long enough to prevent the
poisoned chalice passing to Labour. That would force them to take clear
positions on, immigration, even bigger payments for leaving, transition
arrangements and all the other things on which the party is divided.<br />
<br />
If it came to power before the settlement Labour would have to choose between
rejecting the referendum verdict of the people and being nasty to an EU which
many love almost as much as Vince Cable. Much easier to denounce whatever the
government does<br />
<br />
All this makes things easy for Junker, Barnier, Tusk and the abominable No men
.It absolves the EU from getting 27 states with different interests and views
to agree on any common strategy apart from “Just say No”. So we end up
negotiating with a very taciturn “I speak your Weight” machine.<br />
<br />
The EU listens to all our internal arguments. It encourages the protests of the
vested interests. It pays undue attention to the disrupters and rampant
remainers, observes our divisions and sees all of that as absolving the EU
itself from any need to negotiate seriously.<br />
<br />
All they need do is accuse Britain of having no proposals, being laggardly and
speculate that Theresa May’s government is too weak and fragile to do anything,
let alone commit Eurocide. It’s a pathetic spectacle, but one which is totally
unacceptable to those who voted for Brexit and many who didn’t but are still
proud of their country.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Theresa May was wrong to say Brexit means Brexit. It doesn't. It means sitting in a trap,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>forced to bid against ourselves, while recalcitrant remainers<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>encourage the EU to make departure so difficult we crumble and give up. That's their two pronged game</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Article fifty was designed by Lord Kerr,(pronounced cur) a foreign office fool, gone native in Brussels. He claims it was intended to discipline dictators not Britons because he thinks we're"too bloody stupid" to leave. So he didn't make it easy. Then the Commission, which will be hit hard by the loss of the UK's contribution, made it even tougher by seizing control of the process, appointing a former French agriculture minister (and CAP lover)to "negotiate" for them . They demand that Britain<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>jumps through three hoops, before they'll talk turkey, and every time we offer to meet their unreasonable demands<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>they'll say "Not enough. Give us more" Barnier is the ever raising bar man..</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">It's the best trick since the invention of the mousetrap .It's also illegal. Article 50 gives the power of decision to the Council not the Commission. Negotiations on the relationship after departure should go on pari passu with agreement on the cash and conditions. Indeed<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>conditions, like money and borders, can't be agreed until we know what kind of deal we're getting. Yet the Commission not only insists that we should accept their conditions sight unseen<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>but gives the EU's joke of a Parliament a say as well, providing a platform to Verhofstadt, a failed Prime Minister of Belgium,to ponce around lecturing a nation which has twice gone to war to save his shambles of a country</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We're asked to accept the poke before we can see the pig .Unless we're to be stuck on this flypaper and humiliated we need to insist on seeing what we're getting to decide how much it's worth paying for. No tickee no takee as the Chinese laundry used to say. Having already made an overgenerous offer, Theresa May must now say"thus far and no further" until we agree on terms. Unless we do that we embark on an endless process of bidding against ourselves, while our Recalcitrant remainers encourage the Commission to make everything so difficult that Britain is locked into a never never process. While that goes on Labour will attack whatever the government does to conceal its own disunity, the divided Tories will fratch over their's,(and over the leadership)and all the vested interests will witter on about the terrors of Brexit and demand extended transitional arrangement they hope will last forever. Or to the Ides of Blair, whichever comes soonest.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">That's a daunting prospect. Even mice have a choice of whether to walk into a mouse trap . Theresa May's generous instinct to be nice to Europeans is irrelevant. If the EU plays hard ball, so must we . That means being prepared and ready to walk away. Every trade union negotiator knows that's essential in tough deals. Get negotiations out of the hands of a Commission with its vested interest in keeping our cash, and into the Council's. Talk to the adults in the room not their office boys. To keep faith with our people Britain must assert it's national interests and stop the drain of money, jobs and assets to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>a European monolith we neither need nor want.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">One lesson in politics<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>is always look behind the arguments at the interests. Ask "what's in this for them"? Let's apply that lesson to the rearguard action<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>irreconcilable Remainers are now fighting. When Jeremy Browne reports for the City that there's zero chance of the EU giving us a fair deal, we should remember that he was a Liberal MP, believing in My Europe right or wrong.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Andrew Adonis, who came to Labour from the LibDems<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>wants the Party to commit itself to another referendum which he thinks will ensure the British electorate stands on its head as those of Ireland, Denmark and France have already done. Another EU worshipper.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Take Euro Tony who<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>thinks that if he changes his own policies on immigration the EU will give us a better deal and persuade us to stay in the affectionate embrace of an organisation of which he once wanted to be President. Or the Euro Androids who hope<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>that if they make enough difficulties and prolong the agony into a never ending transitional phase Britons will behave like Bo Peep's sheep:</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Smart stuff. It's going to make the next year or so messy and divisive and encourage the EU to play hard ball against what it assumes (because the remainers tell them so) is a divided and frightened nation.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Looking behind all this querelous quarrelling with the people, shows that their cunning calculations<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>have three weaknesses.First they're keeping quiet about the terms on which they want us to crawl back. Unless the EU reforms itself, which it shows no sign of doing ,we'll go back to the periphery. All the EU action will concentrate on making the Euro work and we'll simply have to resume our<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>heavier contributions, the economic drain and our growing deficit with Germany.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Second they're making no effort to encourage their friends in the EU to reform itself or to offer Britain a better deal than the disadvantageous terms which drove us out. They just want us us back on a treadmill running<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>against us.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Finally there's the problem of the EU itself. A hydra with 27 heads cant agree on any strategy other than simply saying no. The Commission calls the shots, not the interests of the members. Since it would suffer if it lost Britain's disproportionate contributions the Commission's strategy is to put up a wooden puppet as negotiator andcreate a lose -lose situation for Britain by requiring us to jump three impossible hurdles which we can't do until we know the terms of departure which they won't talk about. If the Treaty of Versailles had been negotiated on this basis we'd still be fighting World War One</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Britain's recalcitrant remainers and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Brussells' Junker Barnier double act are at cross purposes. The more Yesterday's Euro Chaps encourage Brussells' professional no-Sayers to say "no", the more messy things will get, the more the nation's time is wasted and the more angry a British public, which doesn't relish being buggered about, is going to get</span></div>
Austin Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14888857320013909260noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834326003923926288.post-4771722000059431272017-09-06T08:25:00.001-07:002017-09-06T08:25:43.531-07:00OMG-where do we go from here?<div class="p1" style="color: #454545; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; text-size-adjust: auto;">
<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The most potent force for change in Britain's political life</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">isn't so much</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">elections, which mainly mark paragraphs in the story, but the great mood swings</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">which occur every few decades and change the whole course of policy. One occurred after the First World War which killed</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Victorian certainties and faith in the inevitability of progress. Another followed the second as the post war settlement shifted the balances from wealth and capitalism and towards the people, with a welfare state, progressive taxation and Keynesian demand management to ensure growth and full employment</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">This led to three or four decades of affluence, les trentes glorieuses for the French, the never had it so good years for the British but the settlement came under increasing strain from inflation and balance of payments problems and in its turn, broke up, ushering in what Jim Callaghan described as the next great sea change.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">That brought in the age of neoliberalism. The state was rolled back to empower the market, austerity cut back the welfare state<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>and utilities were privatised, Finance ruled, industry declined and growth for all was replaced by a zero sum grab by wealth.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Now after its four decades neoliberalism is coming to an end. Living standards have stalled, inequality has grown, the elite have been excessively greedy, the promised regeneration has failed and a peasants' revolt has<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>protested against austerity, neo-liberalism and the long decline into the EU. This new change in the tide produces the major question. Where do we go from here?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">New tides surge in because of abuse of power by the dominant interest. The post war settlement was designed to favour labour as against capital which had abused its power before the war.It strengthened union rights, and empowered the people by welfare and full employment.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Instead of cooperating, as<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>German labour did, the unions took a confrontational attitude to business, opted for capitalist competition by free collective bargaining, empowered the shop stewards and defeated all attempts at reform by both Wilson and Heath.Union power used in this negative way was denounced as excessive by management and the media, and seen as the major cause of Britain's slow growth and comparative decline. Certainly it was powerful enough to bring down two governments, Ted Heath's in 1974 and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>their own Labour government in the winter of discontent of 1979.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">With the power of labour abused capital took its revenge.The incoming Tory government by broke the unions, under-ran the economy to discipline labour by higher unemployment, privatised the great utilities and decimated the industries which were the centres of their power to create a new balance in which capital, business and Finance were<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>dominant.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">In its turn the new dominant interest abused its power by greed,speculation, debasement of standards by banks and financial interests, by driving down wages and cutting costs, and by tax evasion and levels of skullduggery unimaginable for earlier generations.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Now, after four decades that abuse of power has produced its own nemesis in a failing economy which can't pay its way in the world and a tax base which can't support strong defence and the standards of health care, housing and education demanded by a modern society. The left behind people have revolted against austerity, globalisation, inequality and static incomes .The time is ripe for the next shift in the balances and a new direction of travel.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Though Capital's dominance has clearly failed it's difficult to see what will replace it. Both major parties are treading water and groping for new solutions .Thought is palsied by the great Brexit debate which will dominate everything in the near future. Yet past experience<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>makes one thing clear. The interests must be better balanced to avoid swinging the pendulum so far in any one direction that the dominant interest can abuse its power as both Labour and capital have done in their time.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">This suggests neither socialism nor neoliberalism, but cooperation in the national interest<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>with a balance ensured by effective, independent regulation so that power in any of its shapes and forms can't be abused. The market can't do it. The state is too cumbersome. Only<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>independent regulation of workers rights and capitalism's duties<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>can bring the conflicting interests<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>towork together to build a stronger economy and pursue the national interest, rather than continuing a zero sum struggle for a dominance which both will only abuse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Remainer resistance is hoping that the difficulties of the Brexit negotiations will force Britons to change their minds , realise that they were wrong to reject the advice of the elite in the first place, and crawl back into the EU. Now they demand that Labour must come out against Brexit and demand a re-referendum to allow the nation to stand on its head.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Since<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>all those asking Labour to lay down its future for Europe one has to ask, as they magnify every difficulty, defend every EU policy and criticise every British approach, whose side are they on? Labour's sacrefice would certainly please Polly Toynbee<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>and the others who urged the party to campaign for their objectives, then the bomb and EU membership, in 1981 .When it refused they broke away in the SDP and kept Labour out of power for eighteen years. It would also please Yesterday's Men, Tony, Mandy and the rest, and bring us into line with those goneburgers,the LibDems. It would even gratify the pundits like Steve Richards by proving that they'd been right all along.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The only group it wouldn't help is the Labour Party. It would be faced with new divisions and difficulties if it gave giving<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>EU membership a higher priority than power ,national regeneration or democracy. Labour could<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>hardly win back the left behind people, many of them Labour supporters all from sections of society and regions which normally vote Labour. They voted to come out, and who knows what they'll think after being buggered about for two years by an EU which can neither negotiate nor balance the relationship better.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">It won't get us any better terms. Poor old David Cameron got nothing<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>to help him win the referendum and after forcing<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Britain to jumping hurdles rather than negotiating, the EU it then can't agree anything. A 27 headed hydra is totally inflexible. Such intransigence is no way to win friends and influence Brits, particularly if it's coupled with threats and dirty tricks like cutting back on grants to Britain, stealing our banks and financial services and plotting the downfall of the City of London.Giving the EU hope that Labour will crawl back to the fold isn't going to make the hydra more accomodating</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">If the last ditch Remainers get their way Britain will be asked to go back, humiliated, tail between our legs and swallowing our pride, not to a position of leadership in the EU, but to a pathetic periphery. All the action in the EU<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>now focusses on the French proposals to reform the Euro to make it work, rather than deflate. Those outside the Eurozone are relegated to a periphery outside the action and the few proposals for redistribution to help the laggards will be minimal and restricted to Euro members. Those on the periphery won't count.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Labour's concern must be for jobs and growth, but we wouldn't be able to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>defend them by stopping the drain of money and jobs to the EU. Membership charges are<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>£11 billion and certain to rise. Our deficit with the single market is £60 billion and the costs of the CAP, a further £15 billion, all of which we have to borrow, because Britain can no longer pay its way in the world.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">There's no way of stopping that drain unless we rebuild production in our lop sided economy .That involves government investment,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>support and planning of the type Asian competitors have used to build powerful exporting sectors .The EU proscribes all that, so the only alternative will be to cut costs, reduce wages and taxes and join the race to the bottom . Does Labour want that?</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">It's too late for Eurowishful thinking. The only way forward is to negotiate hard for what the people voted for, forget the futile claims that they didn't vote for this, that or the other and fight for Labour's traditional priorities of jobs, betterment, growth and a strong economy which works for the people. To<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>throw up our hand in fear of the difficulties and saying that the people are wrong, the EU has beaten us before we can even get to round one and Britain is now so feeble it couldn't fight its way out of a paper bag.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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Austin Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14888857320013909260noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834326003923926288.post-74937691612847509212017-08-26T10:39:00.002-07:002017-08-26T10:39:41.026-07:00Trumpania versus Eurania<div class="p1" style="color: #454545; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; text-size-adjust: auto;">
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Those who see Trump as a conventional President<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>who's failing because he's temperamentally unsuited to the job have got it wrong. Trump is a populist genius. He's developing an entirely new style presidential style by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>following a classic, populist, right wing approach pioneered in Europe.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Call it fascism, populism or Trumpism, it's a simple technique. If blocked by the conventional authorities and institutions or frustrated by advisers and pundits (aka the adults in the room), the leader appeals over their heads to the people. The people probably don't understand the issues. They might not even see that the leader's policies are damaging to their interests as Trump's tax proposals and the abolition of Obamacare surely are.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It doesn't matter. There are enough people alienated from the ruling elites and the conventional authorities, because recession, poverty and frozen living standards has made them feel left behind and angry to back the leader. They see a populist figure as their man, like them and on their side. They identify with him and he with them.They trust the leader more than those who've let them down.So it's easy to rouse them in mass rallies to rally them against the elite as Trump is now doing.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">This was the technique used by Hitler . He never got a majority of votes, became Chancellor because the right thought he'd be their puppet,was distrusted by the army, the existing authorities and opposed by the Social Democrats, but appealed to a population hard hit by depression and unemployment from which the powers that be had been unable to protect them. Result ? Hitler overruled them all by unleashing public hostility, took a firm grip on power, built the fascist state and led Germany into war. Or take De Gaulle, brought to power by the Algerian revolt then consolidating it by referenda to get the powers and the constitution he wanted.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Europe learned the lesson which was don't trust the people. That's why the European Union was created, as a deliberately undemocratic structure in which the bureaucracy of the commission decides what's good for the people, then imposes it on them whether they want it or not. The Commission is committed to building an ever closer union, which neither national governments nor the European people want but which the Commission knows will be good for them. It<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>maintains the appearance of democracy in what is really a plutocracy, by having a Parliament which has no effective party structures to give it power, and by referenda where the electors are asked to vote again if they vote for something the commission doesn't like.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">That's why the Commission, Europe's<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>elites and all the jumble of authorities which make up the EU are as hostile to Trump as they are to Britain's desire to take back control. Can't have populism. Trump will get out of control and the British people can't be trusted. Heaven knows, they might want to do something the Commission doesn't like. Give them power and other people might want it too. Can't have that. Better just to say no. Simpler too, because no is the only thing a 27 headed hydra can get agreement on.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">European democracy isn't what the people want. It's what the Commission wants . If you don't like it, you can't even be allowed even to leave because it's all<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>done for your protection and in your interests.. A country which takes back control may catch Trumpism and do what the Commission doesn't want.</span></div>
Austin Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14888857320013909260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834326003923926288.post-20453681143937327752017-08-17T02:39:00.001-07:002017-08-17T02:39:16.457-07:00Does Britain have a national interest?<div style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The repeal of the Corn Laws in the 1840s and Irish home rule at the end of the nineteenth century are the only precedents for the kind of disruption threatened by</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">leaving the European Union. Both split parties, divided the nation and inflicted such deep damage on the Conservatives in 1846 and the Liberals in 1886 that they took decades to recover .</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Like Brexit, both were arguments over interests; land versus industry in the corn laws, imperialism versus little Britain in Home Rule. But these great disruptions differed from today's in one key way. The arguments then were clear and basically about the national interest.Today's are nebulous, hypothetical and all about vested interests not the nation's.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Few today have any clear idea what Britain's national interest is.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">We were duly penetrated. The balance of trade with the single market became a huge and growing deficit and it became clear that we had assumed damaging obligations, the loss of our fishing grounds, the rupture of our trade with cheaper agricultural producers and a burden of payments far greater than our GDP per capita would justify, to join a club which offered us little. Except maintaining<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>peace in Europe which NATO was already doing</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>What sort of economy do we want?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Free trade was in the interests of the world's first industrial economy but now of a society which consumes much but produces little. So what are the alternatives?Racing to the bottom with a cut price, low wage , low tax economy? A service economy driven by consumer demand and selling assets just to survive?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Or a high skill, high investment industrial competitor. Should we sustain the City or rebuild the industrial economy which is better balanced than lopsided dependence on finance?. Do we want free trade<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>or<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>insulation by a competitive exchange rate and state investment to build strength in the way our competitors<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>have?.Should we welcome or restrict foreign ownership, already greater in Britain than in any competitor?</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">This is not a rational discussion but a clamour of vested interests. Importers fight producers, the City fights industry, foreign owned businesses see things differently to British owned, consumers fight producers and employers argue with unions. So many battles that irreconciliable Remainers hope that it will all look so difficult that we'll give up and slink back into the EU. Yet they can't tell us on what terms, and experience with Greece indicates that the EU is not exactly designed to help lame dogs over styles.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The rampant remainers and their journal, the Guardian, are never going to be able to forgive the British people for voting for Brexit. They just can't accept that our electorate might want a strong British economy rather than being the poor adjunct of Greater Germany they've reduced us to.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Every day they bring us news of fresh disasters. Is crime rising ? Is the health service under strain? Is the economy slowing?Does custard curdle before it used to? All due to Brexit. With much worse to come.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The hidden agenda is of course to defeat Brexit by the back door. They hope that this endless diet of fears and problems will cause the electorate to learn sense, give up on its crazy whims, and agree to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>crawl back into the safety and warmth of a benign European Union. Vince Cable has already made this explicit ,Vernon Bogdanor has added his more magisterial approval and Polly Toynbee wants the Labour Party to do the job for her. Doubtless it's what the rest of Yesterday's men, Blair, Mandy, Cameron, Clark and Ashdown, Dad's EU army, all think. They may have fallen a little silent of late but that's only because they're<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>waiting for their prophecies to turn into the real disaster they're hoping for, to teach the electorate a lesson. Then they can re-emerge as the nation's saviours and offer the EU they love as the solution.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">One might have hoped that some sense of patriotism might have pushed them to do a little more to stop such a disaster, however mythical, rather than gloat at the prospect. Rather than attacking every move Britain makes, exagerating every difficulty and taking the EU side in negotiations which the EU has deliberately made as difficult as possible, they might have used whatever influence they have in their beloved EU to argue for a sensible deal and more realistic negotiations than Barnier's three stage waterboarding.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">They do neither. Strange things happen when you love Europe more than your own country. Which makes it time to challenge this political archeology. Forget all their ghastly warnings. Recognise that negotiation is a game of bluff which won't be over for months. Switch the debate round by demanding that they tell us whether, and in what way, Britain could do as they want and go back into the Euro-swamp</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">First they need to tell us whether we can just give up and resume our place on the periphery. Or does invoking article fifty and then deciding we're too scared/stupid/weak to take the risk, require us to beg our way back as a new state, required to join Schengen and the Euro, give up our rebate, accept the refugees and accept all the centralising processes Macron wants to make the Euro work and accepting accept the same bum's rush the EU gave Cameron?</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Second. If we can go back on the old basis, how are we going to stop the drain of money jobs and demand which is sucking Britain dry? Our trade in the single market is £60 billion in deficit, our membership fee is £ 11 billion and the CAP costs us perhaps £17 billion in higher food prices and we're now borrowing all of that to belong.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Third how do we tell the British public that we can't do what they want and its all their fault for putting us in this mess in the first place?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>The second hand German water cannon Boris has bought may be useful but we'll surely have to hope that Tony will use his influence with Macron to get several detachments of French CRS over here as a fraternal gesture from Europe. That'll teach the bastards</span></div>
Austin Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14888857320013909260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834326003923926288.post-52067585309334354052017-07-15T02:23:00.001-07:002017-07-15T02:23:17.494-07:00Deutschland uber alles<div style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Result deadlock.Everything waits, not for Godot, but for Merkel and Schaubel. But one thing is sure. They're much more aware of their national interest and much more determined to defend it than Britain's vested interests who want to continue the drain of the single market, or our rampant remainers who have no higher ambition than<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>to drag Britain back, pathetic and humiliated into the new German empire.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I'm happy to join the universal confessions of failure from the psephologists pollsters and pundittieri over the election. We all got it wrong. We assumed that Jeremy's past would drag him down, Labour's radical manifesto would be a repeat of the longest suicide note of 1983 and a nervous electorate would want to cling to nurse.All wrong. Mea very culpa<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The problem is why. Electoral analysis used to focus on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>getting out the vote. Marc Abrams in 1959 and Butler Stokes in the sixties described two great tribes, membership determined by hereditary and conditioning, which grew or declined with demographics. Parties won or lost by getting the vote out</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This analysis was<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>replaced as party allegiances weakened in the seventies by the centre ground theory. The argument here was that parties had to moderate their ideologues to win the centre ground where, it was claimed most electors lived. Strong policies would frighten the middle ground so parties had to soften their approach, blandise their appeal and avoid frightening people<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">In my view the centre ground was a kind of mushy, middle, the home of floating voters and people less interested in politics, more apathetic, less likely to vote, and less involved . This was a tribe with no strong party commitment whose confused perceptions could be<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>easily influenced by moods, fears and media</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Blairites had a different view of the middle ground. They saw it as marginal territory between the parties where people could be mobilised by fear, altruism and hope . In the Blairite view Labour's task was to blandise its appeal , moderate its policies, soften its ideology and reach out from its core vote to win votes in the south and among the more liberal middle classes.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Different perceptions<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>pointing to similar conclusions, specifically that Labour should take its core support for granted, forget terrifying things like socialism and nationalisation, avoid frightening people, disassociate from the unions and present itself as a party of government, hope and goodwill to win the centre ground .In a conservative country with a malign media, respectability and the avoidance of fear were the way to do that. Keep Prescott and Skinner in a cage. Smile, wave and win</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">It worked for Blair. Labour won but then threw it all away because having moderated itself out of everything it had little idea of what to do next. It lost ground in its core areas like Scotland which it had taken for granted but to which it delivered too little to keep them happy.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In the light of all this thinking Corbyn's defeat seemed certain.We were clearly wrong. Yet that doesn't tell us why. Could it be that a techtonic shift is taking place?. Is the middle ground<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>moving.?</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The people<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>have<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>been subjected to three decades of neoliberalism, cuts, underinvestment and frozen living standards.They're beginning to realise that though the rich have benefitted generously, austerity has neither improved their own position nor given them stable employment and better prospects The fat cats prosper The people stagnate .</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">As<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>fear looses its grip, radical policies begin to look more acceptable and Labour looks less frightening. However desperately the media and the Tory Party invoke the old bogey person images , warn of tax bombshells, or bang on about the absence of money trees, the middle ground is opening up for change..</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">This can<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>be a new beginning in which we can have a serious discussion and develop serious policies to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>deal with Britain's real and pressing problems. Instead of pretending all's well,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>playing Mr and Mrs Nice and pretending that we can make things better by doing not very much we<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>might be able to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>recognise that Britain is in a mess and offer serious, even socialist policies for getting out of it</span></div>
Austin Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14888857320013909260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834326003923926288.post-6080616109258689592017-07-10T09:12:00.001-07:002017-07-10T09:12:35.821-07:00EIN VOLK ,EIN REICH, EIN SINGLE MARKET<div style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">With Labour's prospects improving in this way the worst thing the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>party can now do is fall apart in our usual fashion this time by opening up the old war over Brexit.Yet that's what Euro twerps like Umuna and the Chuckers, Chris and the Leslies and Gapes and the Gobbers want to do by their efforts to tie Labour to the single market. No deal without staying in the single market is their way of stopping any deal at all.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Staying in the single market isn't leaving the EU.It's allowing it to continue to drain Britain. The electorate who voted to leave won't like it but BMW dealers, importers , French wine drinkers, the vested interests and all Britain's scaredy cat capitalists too frightened to compete in the world, can rejoice.Their fat livings are guaranteed. Eddie the Eagle economics of a country never quite making it will continue.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Single Market is the Remainers' fig leaf . Its also<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>worn by the CBI and the Engineering Employers whose directors put their love of the EU above the interests of their members. The Single Market is their way of leaving the EU while staying in it but so difficult to get and so restrictive if we do get it that the hope is that making it central will compel us to give up on Brexit and crawl back to Nurse.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Its benefits are largely mythical. Our trade deficit in it is around £60 billion a year. That's a drain of jobs, companies and growth out of Britain. We pay £11 billion. year to belong, which is a drain of dosh. It requires us to support agricultural protectionism and stops us buying food on cheaper markets, another cost of perhaps £20 billion in higher food prices.It allows British companies to pay their taxes in Luxembourg or Dublin to escape their tax obligations here. It requires us to contribute to adhesion funding for newer EU members, so companies like Nestle can be bribed to transfer jobs to Poland.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">In short its a great deal for the EU but a bum one for Britain. The great beneficiary is Germany which accumulates the world's biggest surpluses which it will neither distribute to help others, nor spend to stimulate growth and help Greece Portugal or Italy .Germany drains the EU. Our problem is to stop it draining us Yet the Remainers who demand we keep it have no proposals to rebalance a single market that's not working for Britain.</span></div>
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Austin Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14888857320013909260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834326003923926288.post-23505652121920405262017-06-26T13:19:00.000-07:002017-06-26T13:19:01.265-07:00Thundering herd tramples Theresa<div style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">These days we don't reach considered decisions after serious discussion. We thunder in herds, first in new direction then back in another.That's how bankers speculate, politicians think and pundits come to conclusions. Modernisation doesn't moderate it. It only means that the herds are getting bigger, the thundering louder and the changes of direction bigger.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Now it's Theresa May's turn to be trampled. A few weeks back the herd were busy trampling Cameron and praising Theresa as the savior of the Just Managing Folk and the <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>great equalizer.Now they've suddenly discovered that she's weak and wilting,about to be replaced, deeply unpopular and <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>incapable of carrying on. The herd even ruminates on the collapse of the government and an early election.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">It's all bull. Don't believe a word of it. In their excitement the pundittieri have forgotten the basic facts they should have known about British government.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> It's an elective dictatorship. The party with a majority controls the House of Commons and can do anything it wants. It can skate on thin ice and continue to skate even after the ice has melted as Jim Callaghan did in 1978.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">If the majority is small or there's a hung Parliament, the government still has to govern. So <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>its perfectly legitimate to come to deals either for coalition, as David Cameron did in 2010, or to agreements for support in motions of supply and confidence as the Lib/Lab pact did in 1976.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">To say otherwise is to say that some seats are inferior to others. We are a union. Ulster MPs are as legitimate as Welsh or Cornish. So its hardly reasonable to argue that MPs shouldn't use their power to win a better deal for their constituents. In fact <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>all do.The Scot Nats could do a deal if they want to, and the Sein Fein MPs who moan about the deal are simply admitting how daft they are in taking their pay but not their seats. No presence no power</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">In fact I'm surprised how little the Democratic Unionists have asked. They could have changed history had they supported Jim Callaghan's government in March 1979. Then they demanded a gas pipeline to Northern Ireland to give them cheaper power but Jim was too noble to do deals. He lost power by one vote. Now they've only demanded a few billion when they could have asked for Orange parades, more Parliamentary seats for Northern Ireland, the remaking of every road and pies for every Protestant.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">So my prediction is that Theresa can carry on and still do pretty well what she wants. The danger isn't now but two years ahead if she doesn't get a good deal on Brexit and has to crawl back or climb down. Both parties are divided on this. There'll be endless rows about what to do and who's to blame and we'll be in a real mess. But then the answer isn't another election. It's proportional representation, the only way out when parties and the nation are <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>fragmented.The major parties have resisted it for years but if neither can govern its the only way to form a government. Then every MP will have the power to demand their own deal in return for their vote.</span></div>
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Austin Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14888857320013909260noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834326003923926288.post-91731224333191717012017-06-26T03:16:00.001-07:002017-06-26T03:16:15.107-07:00It's the mood we're in which influences reactions to Brexit<div class="p1" style="color: #454545; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; text-size-adjust: auto;">
<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Britain's decision making process is decided by mood rather than any assessment of the national interest. We joined the EU in a mood of despair about our prospects. We voted to come out because of a mood of dissatisfaction about the results. Now Remainers see <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>hope in the <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>uncertainty produced by the election result In fact the election was <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>about austerity and had little to do with Brexit, but it weakened Theresa May.The Unrepentant Remainers are now seizing that as a new point of attack, encouraged by a surge of optimism within the EU caused by economic recovery coupled with Macronmania. </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Their first demand that we vote again hasn't worked, so Remainers have decided to play a longer game by using both developments to persuade Britain that Brexit is so impossibly <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>difficult with <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>our government <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>weak so and the EU so strong, that we'll have to crawl back in despair and dejection or face decline, isolation and possibly eternal damnation.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">That's the Counter Revolution. The <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>demand to stay in the single market is its key weapon.It shackles us to high immigration, excessive payments, agricultural protectionism and a constant drain of tax revenues to <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>tax fiddles in Dublin and Luxembourg. It prevents us helping industries and running effective industrial and regional policies but it provides a nice hidy- hole to our flagging industry which is too timorous <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to compete on a world scale .</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Remaining in the Single Market is much the same as staying in the EU but <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>will be impossible to achieve unless the EU agrees to change the rules. Which it won't. Which makes it the perfect weapon. We can beat our heads against a brick wall for two years then be forced to give up in despair and crawl back to the EU's less than loving embrace to sit on a naughty step somewhere on the periphery.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The second set of myths, that the EU is <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>en marche with inconvenient populists and Theresa May back in their kennels and growth reviving <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is equally vacuous. The EU is built on mirages and constantly needs new myths to keep members happy but this new one will be less than the last, on the birth of the Euro. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>EU tails are up, Theresa's is down and that gives them the incentive to be even tougher. Nice words about how they love us, but nasty consequences if we go. </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The EU is certainly doing better <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>thanks to the ephemeral effects of the Euro Bank's massive money printing. Yet the hopes triggered by New Macron,New Europe can only be realised by further centralisation to make the Euro work. This is unlikely. The Euro is structured to benefit Germany and force austerity on the weaker economies. Germany won't <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>rush to give up that. Nor will it redistribute its huge trade surpluses draining <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the weaker members. And us.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The new optimism doesn't help Greece or Italy and any improvement will be confined to strengthening the Euro zone which won't benefit <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Britain. So if we stay we'll be even more peripheral, with no chance of returning to <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the vaunted position of influence Remainers promise.The EU is ever ready to help new members and finance the transfer of British jobs to Poland ,at our expense, but offers nothing to failed prodigals slinking back because they've lost confidence in themselves.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">It may be that as a long standing supporter of Brexit I'm a little biased but I do wonder <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>when I see the television and read the newspapers whose side the correspondents and pundits are on in what is after all a conflict of national interests. </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I can understand the fears and doubts we are being deluged with. Business wants to stay in, universities need the money, farmers love the CAP, we don't have the expertise or the brain power to negotiate, the City will collapse, manufacturers, banks and multinationals will leave and God help us. That's what happens when vested interests are upset but its the responsibility of journalists to bring some balance to the argument and evaluate their complaints, not just amplify them. </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Yet none of this festival of fear is ever set in perspective against the growing deficit we run in trade with the EU, the crippling effect of the Euro on our markets there, or the disproportionate <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>membership fees to belong to a club that drains us, compelling us to accept an agricultural protectionism that's not in our interests and stops us coming to trade deals with outer nations.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Nor is there any coverage of the divisions and doubts which must exist in an EU which has never shown the total unanimity attributed to it on the British case on anything else. Instead of exploring these every Euro loudmouth who threatens us with ruin, is taken as a unanimous view, negotiating bluster becomes gospel truth and an enormous bill cooked up to protect the others from having to pay more, and to finance British sweet manufacturers moving to Poland, <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is treated as a debt of honor. The defence of EU citizens here extends to giving them greater rights than the Brits as well as the entitlement to student ,loans, which they can then hide back home without paying off. </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Instead of balancing Euro motes against British beams the sycophantic Euro-chorus claims that the Eurobank's enormous money printing <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>has solved all <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the problems of an unworkable <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Euro, Germany's selfish accumulation of huge surpluses which it refuses to spend or distribute is sound economics, and <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Macron's proposals to reform the EU by another dose of closer union has not only been accepted but is working its magic after two weeks. </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The lack of balance is particularly striking in my beloved Guardian, usually a source of liberal sense but now gone overboard in its Euro enthusiasm. A paper on the edge of bankruptcy has wasted I don't know how much creating a pro European pop up paper, edited by Tony's representative on earth. It's pundits, Toynbee, Hutton, Keegan, Freedland, Jack and Kettle, waste no time discussing how the wishes of the electorate can be fulfilled. They aim only to reverse it. Everything the EU demands or does is right. Every move the British government makes is wrong. The old adage that comment is free facts are sacred has become comment is free if it's pro EU, facts are selective. What happened to balance? </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">All this is heightened by the imperatives of 24 hour news which can't think long term and is obsessed with the day to day trivia. Both are dangerous when negotiations are long term, uncertain and characterized by bluster which is taken as fact. Journalists tend to be liberal intellectuals rather than informed analysts. They follow the herd instincts of the Guardian and the posh print media .Those covering Europe (with the exception of Boris Johnson) become more European than British. Look at the Guardian's Natalie Nougayrede whose gushing admiration of the EU is more a love affair than journalism. </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">It's a depressing spectacle and one the European negotiators don't have to contend with. It's right that the media should play down xenophobia <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and draw attention to British problems. They're not there to exude contentment .But its not right that they should be so unbalanced and so blind to both national interests and hard economic realities. We need a media which will make us think, not just splutter with anger at the trahison des clercs.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Theresa May's disaster, a predictable result which no one predicted, will be <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>seized on to rerun the Brexit debate. Prominent Remoaners see it as a chance to call the whole thing off. Yesterday's Men,Clegg, Blair and Hezza <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>urge a rethink. Business is moaning, Finance <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>timorous and the vested interests are back to the fear game.Our not so friendly "partners" in the EU claim that Theresa is so weakened that they can play tough. Just make us suffer and we'll give up.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Wishful Euro thinking. The election results hardly show an anti Brexit pattern. Nick Clegg Britain's foremost Euro-creep was beaten.Zac Goldsmith was elected .Go through the results in detail and you'll see no pattern, for or against.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">How could it when both Labour and Conservatives were committed in their manifestos to negotiate Brexit and even the Libs were ambiguous on the "shall we should we" <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>point. Remoaners managed to disguise their dissent by demands that we should aim for a "soft" Brexit or even a barely noticeable Brexit, as opposed to <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the "hard" Brexit they claimed Theresa May wanted, or the even harder Brexit with <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>a race to the bottom on cuts, welfare and government spending which the real frighteners predicted.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">It was all as much rubbish as operation fear which it emulated. What kind of Brexit we get isn't up to us .All the piety and wit of Tim Farron or the people's Mandy, can't predict or influence something which will be decided by the EU. Whether it wants to maintain a better balanced relationship <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>punish us pour decourager les autres by treating Britain worse than Canada, the US or Switzerland, is for them to decide. </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> Negotiations must now begun. We must aim at the best deal we can get, treating the economic impacts as our first consideration and paying only what we owe on a strictly calculated basis.If we can't get an adequate deal <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>new considerations come into play.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> As Orwell remarked in 1941 "one cannot see the modern world as it is unless <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>one recognizes the overwhealming strength of patriotism.... as a positive force there is nothing to set beside it" The liberal elite may have shifted their allegiance to Europe but not the mass of the British The public will surely be angered if the EU plays silly buggers and attempts to bully us.It's hardly possible to accept humiliation and go back, tail between our legs. No party (except,perhaps, the LibDems) will dare justify that to the nation.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The EU will have changed in the two years of negotiations.. The Eurobank has poured out money to stimulate growth but that can neither stop the harsh consequences of the Euro for the less competitive countries, nor write off the Greek debt. Macron's efforts to make the Euro work by a further dollop of ever closer union, will either produce more centralisation and a common budget, or they'll be rejected, but in either case the EU's preoccupation will be the Euro which we can't ever join. In or out we'll be peripheral to their concerns. </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">There's no alternative but to suck it and see.That's what the nation voted for and still wants. It's what the parties promised. It's clearly daft to give up before we've started. This may be a game of pygmies on both sides, but it's not beyond the wit of either to get a deal which satisfies both.Let's stop knocking Britain and just get on with it </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">In 2015 Paddy Ashdown promised to eat his hat f the exit poll was correct. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He never did but the same dietary commitment in 2017 would have produced a mass titfer munching. All the pundits, papers, pollsters, know alls and Mitchell were wrong. Our herd instinct let us down.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Three things dominated this election. Brexit, prospects and terrorism and we got it wrong on each of them. A nation which has been buggered about for far too ,long took its revenge, said they simply wanted a better life and better services and <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>put the politicians on a shorter leash.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Brexit didn't fly. Theresa wanted to make it the main issue.Having only got a majority of 379 to begin negotiations she felt fragile and asked the nation to back her. The majority <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>accepted that Brexit is inevitable and were prepared to suck it and see but they also saw that it's not up to us whether we get SB (strong Brexit) MB (mild Brexit) or FAB (guess). That will be decided by how nasty the <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>EU decides to be, not by whether Mrs May is strong and stable weak and wobbly or some combination of all that. Recognising that its <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in the lap of the Euro-sods, electors decided to ignore the issue and vote their party preference.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Terror didn't work either. The media and May both tried to portray Corbyn as soft on terrorism , possibly a secret member of IS, the IRA or Fatah or even president of of the National Union of terrorists and Related Trades. People thought that a little unlikely for such a nice old chap and put the blame on a government which has savaged police spending and drastically reduced the numbers of cops. Very wise.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Which leaves us with prospects, both personal and national. The two are interwoven. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Theresa held out the hope of a nicer Tory Party committed to looking after all of us and in favour of the regular brushing of teeth (for those who have any left- given the costs of dentistry) No one believed her.They saw that they were no better off, inflation was increasing and they were heavily in debt.They were fed up of austerity which clearly wasn't working and wanted something done about the health service, social care and education all of which are seriously underfunded .They were even <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>prepared to pay more taxes for them, particularly if the weight of taxes was more fairly distributed.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Faced with these three pressures people chose the one which was most important to them, decided that Corbyn was nice and harmless and far from the monster they'd been told, and that and Theresa was too timorous and cold to be the new Boadicea . So they voted for better prospects,hoping to get it by a Parliament that was <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>confused and cautious rather than strong and stable. A hung Parliament they <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>saw would make the politicians more sensible. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The politicians wouldn't like it <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>but who trusts them nowadays. Better to keep them all weak and nervous to ensure they'd listen for a change. So, though the result surprised the political class, it wasn't a huge revolutionary change. Just a shift to sense.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">My guess is that there'll have to be an early election .So <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the test running up to it will be <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for the each party to hang together and learn sense rather than squabble as usual. . The Tories may want a leadership contest and the Remainers will want revenge . Labour will be in danger of reviving the anti Corbyn putsch as the designers struggle to get back on the bandwagon and the Blairites (RIP) complain that only the return of Tony and Mandy will make their party clean and wholesome again. The Cleggless LibDems will purge Faron and turn to Cable.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> But all of them will have to hang together, play nice, stop talking austerity and begin to spend until the next vote decides who's going to govern That's a far harder test than just fighting elections</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Meanwhile I'm off to eat a few hats. Let me see. The straw boater with pesto will be nice, followed by the Trump cap with jam. Yummy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">At Cleethorpes the tide goes out so far that you wonder if it will ever come back .It always does. Just like Labour's. After being discounted, looking certain to lose a score of seats, if not all of them, and relegated to slow death while, Blair Mandy and Ashdown hovered overhead cawing "I told you so:" Labour is coming back. The gap is narrowing. Jeremy Corbyn is doing well. Like Bernie Saunders on Phyllosan</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">It's good to see it. It's not happened just because Theresa has proved as stolid as an Easter Island statue with a new hairstyle. The turn around comes because Labour has a good, sensible manifesto much better than the usual effort to be respectable by offering milder austerity with a smile (which nervous Milliband could never manage to produce),It's well thought out, has some attractive lures and offers sensible answers to Britain's looming problems. Corbyn is learning to be a leader .The party has accepted Brexit and the reluctant Remoaners have been gagged. For the moment.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The improvement may be fragile. The enthusiastic young may not vote. The old may be frightened off. Things can change in the six days which remain.Theresa may learn how to answer questions. But Labour's tide may continue to flood in. Who knows? I don't.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">It's made the Tories jittery and nervous. It's shocked the ever insufferable Lib/Dems and the supercallifugalistic Blairites. It's horrified Phillip Collins, Tony's representative in the Times, to the extent that he's now begun to worry that Labour may not fall apart after the election allowing the formation of a super Doppler, soft centre, whipped cream party for Tony to either lead or buy. Tragedy stalks. It's almost as bad as if one of Kim Jon Un's rickety rockets turned round and blew him up.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Don't believe it. The Tories will probably win but after that the borrowing bubble will burst, <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Brexit hopes will be met by a brick Euro wall, the Tory party will fall apart over whether or not to beat its head against this ,Labour will be proved right and people will realize that it was as daft to give Theresa a blank cheque as it was to put Phillip Green in charge of a pension fund or Fred Goodwin in charge of a bank. We Brits always learn from our mistakes. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It just takes time.</span></div>
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