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EU exit paradox

vendredi 29 décembre 2017 à 01:00

Most of Labour's supporters want Britain to stay in the EU. The party is vulnerable to competition from a party that would support this.

UK exit from the EU is a paradoxical issue. The EU requires every country to be part of several business-supremacy treaties, each of which cements the nondemocratic and therefore unjust power of business. The EU has plutocratic policies of its own in several areas including copyright, agriculture, and inequality of wealth. In principle, returning to freedom and democracy requires escaping from the EU.

However, the EU also regulates businesses and protects some human rights. Therefore, exit from the EU does not necessarily imply things will get better.

If the plan for Britain's economic policy after leaving the EU is to sign a bunch of business-supremacy treaties, the effect will be to make things even worse.