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Rejoining the EU won’t solve Britain’s economic crisis
JON TRICKETT MP has done the movement a service by warning the Burnham government of the dangers of its increasingly overt desire to revisit the Brexit question. As he writes, Britain’s economic diffi
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As he writes, Britain’s economic difficulties are not down to Brexit, but to the financialised capitalism which crashed so spectacularly in 2008.
He points out that reopening the debate can only also reopen the divisions within the working class opened up by the 2016 referendum and the “paralysing polarisation” which followed it.
Burnham and his strategists would do well to listen to Trickett, who represents a “red wall” former mining constituency. Chasing “rejoin” votes at the expense of working-class ones risks a repeat of 2019.
Tackling neoliberalism’s baleful economic and social legacy, rather than resubmitting to a European Union foundationally committed to it, is the way to really change the political weather.