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The EU Brexit negotiations and Ireland – the empire strikes back
DOUG NICHOLLS looks at the desperation of the EU Brexit negotiators and their threat to Ireland

JOSE MANUEL BARROSO was president of the EU and now works for Goldman Sachs. This two-way traffic between Goldman Sachs and EU functionaries has a long history — as long ago as the ’30s Wall Street started to promote the idea of a federal Europe with a single currency, rendering nation states redundant.

It’s quite natural for him therefore to refer, as he does, to the EU as the “European empire.”

That was the idea all along, as the papers behind Ted Heath’s lies that we were only joining a common market reveal. The EU is an imperial power, its purpose is to remove national self-determination and put the leaders of the markets’ packs in charge. 

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