pastafarian
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I stand shoulder to shoulder with my socialist comrade in wanting to Leave the EU.
I also agree with him in wanting to bring to an end to what he says as the “ worst excesses of capitalism,” and “irresponsible capitalism”.(surely most people want these unwanted excesses curtailed).
If he believes leaving the EU produces a better chance for his socialist Britain to exist and a step towards it, then who am I to argue this is a wrong belief. He is hardly alone amongst well known (and respected)socialist thinkers in that respect(Tony Benn) that the EU does not enhance the socialist cause.
Is it even possible to be a socialist and a Europhile? You know, a real socialist not a fake pretend Tory-lite one or middle class student type who joins momentum because it’s a wheeze and all their chums are doing it whilst they are at university.
People talk of division since the vote and perhaps you are having a crack at that amongst leavers with your post, but perhaps not enough recognition is made that socialists, conservatives, liberals, greens, labour, libertarians and who knows who else found a common goal to unite behind a common cause and did so in unprecidented numbers that showed a majority in this country. Perhaps we should concentrate more politically on what brings us together rather than what divides us. It seems to have scared the crap out of the political establishment that this was even possible.
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