Rjan:
There are literally howls of anguish from the CBI at the prospect of Corbyn. In fact the only belated and begrudging business support for Labour arises from the dawning recognition, amongst those able to grasp the dynamics of an economic system, that the capitalist system is in a crisis of its own making.
For those worried about being undercut by immigrants, the obvious solution is to regulate the market to uphold wages.
The right-wing Brexiteers policy is to strike free trade deals with other countries. There is already talk of freedom of movement with India. How that is seen to align with the interests of the average working class voter, who complains that they are being hammered by the free market in wages, I do not know.
It is like I say, there is a point at which fear stops being a credible explanation. Workers have always been frightened of bosses, because they have the power by default. But nobody is being sanctioned merely for political awareness - bosses aren’t checking ballots for which turkeys failed to vote for Christmas.
The difference is that the Brexit side can provide the ‘choice’ of Bennites,Hefferites,Shoreites and even a bit of Powellite thinking in the mix.
Remind us what the EU remainers have to offer other than Callaghan,Thatcherite,Major,Blairite,Cameron and Juncker’s and Merkel’s thinking.On that note strange how the remainers seem to want to selectively use the example of the race to the bottom free trade agenda of just one faction of the Brexit side in the form of a few neo Con Tories.While conveniently ignoring and sidelining others on the ‘left’ like Hoey and John Boyd like Shore,Benn,and Heffer before them.
The agenda being clear in that it’s just one Stalinist pseudo Marxist faction of the so called ‘left’ that is predictably attracted by and sees an obvious advantage to its liking in the form of a centralised undemocratic Soviet controlled Europe.While being happy to align iteself with the Blairites and banker classes as part of that and to get it.
On that note yes let’s ‘regulate markets’ which by definition means protectionism.So how will Corbyn do that with his obvious hidden remain agenda in the form of staying with the EU single market.Which means continuing with the situation of Brit jobs for EU workers while nicking Brit taxes and imposing austerity at home to maintain our net contribution to the EU.While it’s also obvious that the EU isn’t the supposed protectionist barrier against exploitative Asian imports that Corbyn’s Soviet rabble pretends it is.While at best being meaningless to us in that what protection the EU might provide is all about geopolitics in protecting the interests of the German government and German workers and/or East Euro governments and workers.
While if Corbyn was really all about protectionism at home he’d obviously want to ditch the EU single market and withdraw from WTO agreements.When it’s clear that he’s really just another idealistic,opportunistic Marxist,to who the interests of the Brit working class are at the bottom of the zb’s list.While it’s equally obvious that Corbyn is also all about free movement here for every country so long as it fits his simplistic ideological agenda.
As I said it’s time for workers to wake up and realise that Socialism doesn’t have the monopoly on what’s good for the working class of this country and that there’s a big difference between Socialism v workplace solidarity.Solidarity being the key here within the protection of the Nation State.Not some bs failed political ideology which is actually all about enslaving workers in a dictatorial nightmare and calling it workers of the world unite.With the banker classes obviously seeing an advantage in that in also being easier for them to exploit,than the 1960’s US economic model was.
That explains the real reason for the unholy alliance between the Corbynites and the Blairites that is the present Labour Party rabble now.Just as it was under the Wilson and Callaghan regimes and it’s also why Brit and American workers have been thrown on the scrap heap,in favour of exploiting Communist Chinese/Oriental,Asian and East Euro ones and why we hear no protests from the so called Labour Party against it.Because the idea of the Nation State and looking after the interests of our own people is anathema to them.