The explanation of the vote, which I heard on Loud and Clear is that Corbin
should have stuck with his original position supporting a soft Brexit. That
would have satisfied his working class supporters while allowing for
adjustments to ease the harshest repercussions of Brexit. But instead, he gave
in to the Blaire faction of the Labor Party, promising a new vote on Brexit.
That alienated the working class. People in those areas voted for the Tories
for the first time in 70 years.
Miriam
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Escape to Nowhere
On Thursday, Britain elected the most right-wing government in decades. The
Conservative Party won 365 out of 650 seats, giving Boris Johnson the strongest
Tory majority since 1987 and, in his words, “a powerful new mandate to get
Brexit done.” While the American public digests what to make of the Labour
Party’s crushing loss (what might it mean for 2020), U.S. business interests
are surely celebrating. Johnson has promised a withdrawal by January 31, 2020 —
and U.S. industry groups, from pork to pharma, are eyeing the negotiations as a
Trojan horse for corporations to
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seize more power and gut consumer protections.
British voters think Brexit will simply restore national sovereignty, limit
migration, and restore local control, writes Lee Fang. In fact, corporate
lobbyists now see a “historic opportunity” to use Johnson’s proposed swift exit
from the European Union to forge bilateral trade deals. One of the greatest
risks of Tory leadership is to the U.K.’s National Health Service. The NHS is
already outsourcing an unprecedented level of patient care to private health
care firms, many of which are owned by U.S. corporations. As Brexit moves
forward,
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