*Thread* I voted remain in 2016 and I was hugely disappointed by the result at first, seeing it as a victory for the right. But soon the cheap, condecending, and outright idiotic comments from remainers started rolling in and have continued ever since. They've changed my mind.
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The prominence of these types in leadership positions and the overall affluence of those who make up the
#StopBrexit/people's vote campaign personifies how the 'remain and reform' argument - pushed by far too many on the left - is bullshit.Show this thread -
The EU can never further the interests of Europe's working class, that's not what it was built for and that's not what its deeply undemocratic structures will allow. It's a Thatcherite clubhouse that only ever serves capital and benefits elites. We should've learnt from Greece.
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It also can't be held up as a bastion of freedom of movement, migrants' rights or internationalism when it fortifies its borders so heavily at the Mediterranean and elsewhere. It's free movement for white people only.
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I used to think that the call for
#Lexit was utopian and detached from everyday life. In reality, those who bang on about reforming this anti-democratic, overbearing leviathan from the inside are the real utopians.Show this thread -
I oppose the call for a second referendum on a number of grounds - as a democrat who respects the result, as an anti-fascist who doesn't want to see a resurgence of the far-right, and as someone who doesn't want to see that kind of tension in my community again.
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But if there is a second ref, not only would I vote to leave this time, I'd give my time to a left campaign for leave - the kind of campaign that's needed to take the limelight off the reactionaries who've piggybacked on popular anti-EU sentiment.
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We need a left that's confident enough to express our principles honestly, that fights to implement them and takes opportunities as they come, not one that expends our energy desperately defending pseudo-progressive (ie neoliberal) scraps, as if these are the best we can do.
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That kind of confidence and ambition, drawn from the knowledge that we represent the interests of our class, is how the left can win a socialist government and a Brexit that benefits workers.
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Wrong again, many many middle class people have voted against austerity. The middle classes are far outnumbered by the working classes...yet tories rose to power. It’s working class who vote Tory, who supported the self harm of austerity.
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Greens have consistently fought against austerity
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You okay hun?
It's simpler than that
Brexit was clearly wildly mis-sold by Leave politicians as a simple, cost-free panacea
It's a huge costly distraction from bigger issues like austerity & regional inequality.
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Lexiters don't like being challenged do they? Weird.pic.twitter.com/w3VRUwhNOW
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Austerity, poverty and Brexit all invented by Westminster.
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The EU funds gave support to areas of the UK that the Tories didn’t give a crap about. We’re going to miss that after Brexit.
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More ad hominem. Blah blah blah.
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But you don’t mind newly siding with every far right ogre the West has produced. All cheerleaders for the Brexit that has made our country a nastier place
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Exactly this
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Now who's making assumptions about who? I think you'll find the middle classes are smarter than this, disappointing post.
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As opposed to the old labour never will be’s surrounding the Dear Leader. You’re in for the same recipe outside the EU, with less money to start with and the hedge funders and oligarchs calling the shots. Good luck with that.
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Boris, Farage, Gove and Mogg
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/ Sociology grad / Call centre worker and trade unionist