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We must localise the EU and curb corporate power – but does that mean in or out?
Most voices in favour of Brexit seem to offer little more than narrow nationalism, xenophobia and racism. Such associations make it feel impossible for most Greens and progressive thinkers on the left to vote Leave in the upcoming UK referendum. And that settles it in the minds of some: one ‘has’ to vote Remain. Anything else feels ‘unprogressive’, reactionary, even downright dangerous. However, there are powerful arguments against the European Economic Union. In all five Nordic countries: Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark, we have had a very powerful critique of the EU from an ecological, cultural, global solidarity and democratic perspective. A large proportion of the population realised that…
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How UKIP and the Tory right will defeat themselves
Why are those so opposed to migration so blind to something that will cause it to increase so dramatically? I’m not talking about the sheer barkingness and loose-cannonness of so many of UKIP’s Councillors and MEPs; I’m not talking about how their plans to move to an American-style healthcare system (i.e. to dismantle the NHS) will doom them electorally once voters get to know about them; I’m not even talking about their barely-suppressed racism and anti-Muslim prejudice which will surely come back to bite them as Britain keeps becoming a more tolerant society. I’m talking about their outright climate-denial, and the consequences thereof, consequences that I think we are only…
