Streeting’s call for UK to rejoin EU pulls Labour back into Brexit war
Wes Streeting has called for the UK to rejoin the EU as he laid out his bid to No 10 in a much anticipated speech this weekend.
The former health secretary said he will be running for Labour leader after dramatically quitting his role as a Cabinet minister earlier this week.
He said leaving the EU was a “catastrophic mistake” as he stressed it was time for the UK to build a new “special relationship” with the Union, adding that Labour risks risks becoming “handmaidens” to Nigel Farage in the next general election.
Streeting doesn't seem to be suggesting a formal request to become a member of the EU here. It's more of a slogan pandering to the traditional Labour determination to keep a firm lid on the aspirations of working people. The EU does that for them, it curtails the point of voting to an even greater degree than national politics.
If Streeting grabs the top job, there are sound reasons to anticipate someone worse than Starmer.
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Thus demonstrating a politician's ease in subverting democracy in favour of his own elevation.
Just as Stumbler's 'promise' to increase defence spending by £18 billion is trying to bribe us with our own money.
It’s not been a good week for democracy, what with this, the local electoral successes of Lutfur Rahman and his ilk and the Civil Service Union voting (ha!) on an ‘industrial defence strategy’ to cripple a future Farage-led government with strike action, not to mention the Starmer faithful who added MPs’ names to an open letter supporting him without their knowledge or consent.
The Romans managed a functioning democracy for roughly 400 years before descending into civil unrest and thence to bloody civil war; given that our last major upheaval was in 1649, I fear we may be on a similar track and timescale.
DJ - "Thus demonstrating a politician's ease in subverting democracy in favour of his own elevation."
Yes, it's an insight into the depths of political narcissism. Horrific that such people are prepared to do such things to an entire country merely for personal gain, but it happens over and over again.
Macheath - yes something seems to be stirring. If Farage finds himself in No.10 he will have to be much more ruthless than the Establishment is ever likely to tolerate.
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