Preferable to Starmer he may be, but there is scant sign of a sharp political break in Burnham’s policies so far — while left challenges aren’t making much of a running either, finds ANDREW MURRAY. How can socialism be put back on the map?
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The twin vom-fests of liberal tears in the EU parliament and poundshop patriotism in Parliament Square as we left the EU are nothing but a prelude to international class war, writes REUBEN BARD-ROSENBERG
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AS THE European parliament held its penultimate session prior to Brexit, all of the phoneyness that has surrounded Britain’s departure seemed to crystallise into a single exchange. It began with Farage telling us that there was a battle going on “between globalism and populism” and that he was on the side of the latter.
This comes to us as surprising news. This, after all, is the former banker who got rich from the unfettered movement of capital. The politician who pushed for Brexit, not out of opposition to Europe’s neoliberal economic rules, but precisely on the grounds that Britain could pursue even freer trade outside of the bloc, and subject British workers to an even nastier race to the bottom.
Farage is about as averse to globalism as he is to impersonating a lobster with anger management issues.
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