Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Bill Mitchell — Britain should reject the Brexit ‘agreement’ but proceed with the exit

It is Wednesday, and only a short blog post beckons today. I have restrained myself from commenting on Theresa May’s unbelievable Brexit deal, which has the dirty paws of the European Commission all over it. Regular readers will know that if I had have been a voter in Britain in June 2016, I would have resolutely and happily voted in favour of Brexit. And if I was a British Parliamentarian now I would vote to reject the ‘deal’ and force the Brexit on British terms. I will write a little more about that in a further post. But today, I just want to pass comment on the extraordinary UK Guardian article from Phillip Inman – A leftwing UK post-Brexit is as likely as a socialist Rees-Mogg(November 24 2018) – which summarises the problem quite well. I say ‘well’ because it illustrates the progressive surrender that has allowed the neoliberal era and monstrosities like the European Union to persist. You can see it all over the place – surrender that is. The Democratic obsession with Paygo in the US. The British Labour fiscal rule in Britain. The ‘we will have a bigger surplus’ boast from the Australian Labor Party, when there is around 15 per cent underutilised productive labour. Inman’s article is encouraging the Left in Britain to lie down and surrender to the dictates of the neoliberal, corporatist machine that is the EU. It presents an impoverished vision of the future and a disgustingly vapid depiction of the possibilities that a truly progressive British Labor government could achieve once it jettisons the neoliberal frames....
Bill Mitchell – billy blog
Britain should reject the Brexit ‘agreement’ but proceed with the exit
Bill Mitchell | Professor in Economics and Director of the Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE), at University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia

5 comments:

Matt Franko said...

“So think about Point 6 – “most countries … are rapidly running out of money to cope”. That is a plain lie.”

It’s not a lie they are objectifying an Accounting abstraction... acute cognitive deficiency with these people... never trained ...

Konrad said...

That parrot never shuts up.
Someone please shoot the damned thing.

Art major!
Gimme a cracker!
Stochastic abstraction!
You guys are biased against war!
All of you are unqualified Commies!
Gimme a cracker!

Matt Franko said...

We’ll get me Wikileaks email or something that proves that these people actually know wtf is going on and maybe I’ll belive you...

You have NO EVIDENCE that these people are lying.... NONE...

Noah Way said...

A parrot, LOL. Who is it parroting? We know it is incapable of original thought. A rhetorical question, as we don't need even more of it.

FRANKO™
Arrogantly stupid, guaranteed or your munnie back.

Matt Franko said...

Lol the Journo has the same training as you guys....