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Lord Percy
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PostPosted: 14:13 - 14 May 2016    Post subject: What do Corbyn and Cameron have to gain from EU Remain? Reply with quote

I find this interesting because both leaders are politically and ideologically very different.

They both clearly aim to achieve different things in the long run

Personally I think Corbyn is an ultra-liberal who would see the whole world be open-bordered. Plus he can unite with a larger pool of socialists from across Europe. Whereas Cameron is thinking in terms of 'the economy' purely from a balance sheet perspective, which is a boon for organisations who can pluck better skills and cheaper labour from the continent, but this vastly neglects the immediate interests of our own people who would rather do that work.

So Corbyn is being the classic naive liberal, whereas Cameron is being a cold-hearted money-man looking for better GDP figures even if the everyday Brit won't benefit.

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PostPosted: 14:38 - 14 May 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cameron is simply after the eu pension and possible position of power in the eu once he leaves the position of pm,anyone with a brain can see the euro zone is failing, trade is dropping and the eu is not working for us, But big business have such a vested interest in spending billions to get rules made in their persuasion to keep smaller competitors on the back foot, they have no short to medium term advantage of leaving, which call me dave is their saviour

Corbyn wants to leave but he has his hands tied with all the other labourites who think they can use the eu to get round the democratically elected conservative party that are doing such things as trade union reform
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PostPosted: 14:49 - 14 May 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rob Fzs wrote:
big business have such a vested interest in spending billions to get rules made in their persuasion to keep smaller competitors on the back foot, they have no short to medium term advantage of leaving


This is the way I mainly see it. Unless the 'trickle-down economics' myth is still to be believed, EU membership only benefits a select few.
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PostPosted: 15:55 - 14 May 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: 18:05 - 14 May 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cameron is thinking long term. He'll evolve to his Elder Statesman form, and follow Blair on to the multi-million-dollah lecture circuit. Lizard People, die Juden, all that shadowy conspiracy jazz.

Corbyn is thinking that he'll get to cling to his crown (Runner Up version) for a few more precious months. Really, I think that's all he's got going on in his head. He's actually anti-EU because they're not nearly socialist enough for him, but if he comes out for Brexit then the knives will go into his back from his union corporate masters and his brief tenure will be over. The fact that he'll never be in a position to influence anything regardless of what he does over Brexit seem not to be a factor in his reasoning.
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PostPosted: 01:00 - 20 May 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Exiting Europe will be a lot of work and a major headfuck and Cameron is just a lazy shite. Simple explanation.

Corbyn is anti europe from a simple point of view of political independence but he knows that the EU gives ordinary workers protections which the tories will soon take away (including Cameron) if we exit. Also exit is a major headache for everyone in real organisational terms so why bother.
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PostPosted: 06:49 - 20 May 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ribenapigeon wrote:
Also exit is a major headache for everyone in real organisational terms so why bother.


If we as a country think handling our own affairs is 'a major headache for everyone in real organisational terms' then we really ought to leave so we can get our act together again.
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PostPosted: 07:12 - 20 May 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ribenapigeon wrote:
the EU gives ordinary workers protections

Such as?
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PostPosted: 07:28 - 20 May 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ribenapigeon wrote:
Also exit is a major headache for everyone in real organisational terms so why bother.


you could say the same about having general elections, we know we're going to get fucked by the tories so why bother to change to someone else as for all the paperwork and policies that might have to be totally changed having someone else in power, i think alot of people are taking democracy for granted, maybe because they didn't get their way in the last election?
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PostPosted: 09:25 - 20 May 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rogerborg wrote:
Ribenapigeon wrote:
the EU gives ordinary workers protections

Such as?


I had a similar, questioning, of a FB friend last night. She shared a post saying that the EU has given every employee, regardless of time served, the same rights.

I asked, do the 0 hours staff have the same rights? The reply was great. You can't ridicule the EU because some minorities don't benefit ...

So because the EU is only protecting the majority, ignoring the minorities who are being "exploited", that was her word. The EU is a good thing. *Doublethink*
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PostPosted: 09:36 - 20 May 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

The few pro EU folk on my facebook are all the happy clappy liberal types who have a comfortable/insular enough life to not really think about the wider or national long term impacts due to EU membership. I think this is the mindset the pseudo-left have adopted regarding it. I say 'pseudo' left because they clearly don't have a clue about the logical aspects otherwise they'd be voting out too.

Guardian: The leftwing case for Brexit

Of course the latter half goes on to fully endorse the Remain campaign. Only the first half of the article is of merit so here it is:

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The leftwing case for Brexit is strategic and clear. The EU is not – and cannot become – a democracy. Instead, it provides the most hospitable ecosystem in the developed world for rentier monopoly corporations, tax-dodging elites and organised crime. It has an executive so powerful it could crush the leftwing government of Greece; a legislature so weak that it cannot effectively determine laws or control its own civil service. A judiciary that, in the Laval and Viking judgments, subordinated workers’ right to strike to an employer’s right do business freely.

Its central bank is committed, by treaty, to favour deflation and stagnation over growth. State aid to stricken industries is prohibited. The austerity we deride in Britain as a political choice is, in fact, written into the EU treaty as a non-negotiable obligation. So are the economic principles of the Thatcher era. A Corbyn-led Labour government would have to implement its manifesto in defiance of EU law.

And the situation is getting worse. Europe’s leaders still do not know whether they will let Greece go bankrupt in June; they still have no workable plan to distribute the refugees Germany accepted last summer, and having signed a morally bankrupt deal with Turkey to return the refugees, there is now the prospect of that deal’s collapse. That means, if the reported demand by an unnamed Belgian minister to “push back or sink” migrant boats in the Aegean is activated, the hands of every citizen of the EU will be metaphorically on the tiller of the ship that does it. You may argue that Britain treats migrants just as badly. The difference is that in Britain I can replace the government, whereas in the EU, I cannot.

That’s the principled leftwing case for Brexit.
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PostPosted: 06:48 - 24 May 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Any politician will want to be part of the EU as they can head there once there days of ruling us are over..

Oh and did u know something like 1 in 5 people who work for the EU are better paid than me Cameron.
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PostPosted: 07:23 - 24 May 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

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That means, if the reported demand by an unnamed Belgian minister to “push back or sink” migrant boats in the Aegean is activated, the hands of every citizen of the EU will be metaphorically on the tiller of the ship that does it.


About flipping time and MY conscience is just fine with that. Once they get here they attack my way of life so fuck them.
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PostPosted: 08:16 - 24 May 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can tell it's a leftie viewpoint because it blames Europeans for the actions of Turkey and the fugee swarm. Can you feel that First World progressive guilt? Doesn't it taste just shameful to not give and give and give away the fruits of your labour until everyone is equally poor? Drooling

Meandering back on topic, this is why it's so bizarre that either party is pro-EU.

Camœron should be against it because stifling regulation prevents wealth creation.

Corbyn should be against it because free movement will destroy the welfare state.
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PostPosted: 11:21 - 24 May 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think Cameron wants to remain mainly because the numbers add up to a better economy in the medium term. His mandate is based on economic management.

For Corbyn, he is simply following the trend. If he pushed his own far left views he would be that much closer to being ousted. Not that it really matters, he will disappear back to the back benches as quickly as he arrived.
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PostPosted: 12:26 - 24 May 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rogerborg wrote:
Corbyn should be against it because free movement will destroy the welfare state.

No it won't. He can tax and tax and tax and tax.
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PostPosted: 16:53 - 24 May 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rob Fzs wrote:
Cameron is simply after the eu pension and possible position of power in the eu once he leaves the position of pm,


Interesting to note on Radio 2 today was a piece about the 1975 vote on the EU.
Notably a certain Neil Kinnock who was a lets get out guy. Look at what happened.

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Kinnock resigned as leader and resigned from the House of Commons three years later to become a European Commissioner. He went on to become the Vice-President of the European Commission under Romano Prodi from 1999 to 2004


Funny how he is now a dead set lets stay in....
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PostPosted: 08:39 - 25 May 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

angryjonny wrote:
Rogerborg wrote:
Corbyn should be against it because free movement will destroy the welfare state.

No it won't. He can tax and tax and tax and tax.


Only if there are enough tax-and-tax-and-tax-and-taxable jobs for the free-movers to take. Otherwise it relies on the

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welfare state


which I suppose would be possible but only if welfare stopped being a country-specific thing and was instead administered as an equal payment for any unemployed person across the entire EU as one equally administered policy. But then that would only work if economies were controlled such that no area becomes vastly rich than any other, to ensure that EU state handouts were equal in all regions in order to prevent mass economic migration to any one spot, but that would only work with mass diversion of wealth from the more productive regions to make sure everything is in perfect harmony without hiccups or tensions. Personally being the socialist hippy I am, I'd gladly see a massive state-planned economy for the better of as many people as possible, but it seems to be quite a pipe-dream so for now I'd rather be out of the EU to focus on fixing a smaller land mass.

And let's face it, those profiteering corporation folk who want to play the system to their advantage will still trot on as normal.

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PostPosted: 09:15 - 25 May 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lord Percy wrote:
angryjonny wrote:
No it won't. He can tax and tax and tax and tax.


Only if there are enough tax-and-tax-and-tax-and-taxable jobs for the free-movers to take. Otherwise it relies on the

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welfare state

World according to Corbyn, not World according to World. Need more money, the rich'll pay. I agree with him up to a point. But only up to a point.
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PostPosted: 09:40 - 25 May 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

angryjonny wrote:
World according to Corbyn, not World according to World. Need more money, the rich'll pay. I agree with him up to a point. But only up to a point.


I also agree up to a point. I agree in principle that it's right but not all in one go, which is what the EU advocates by giving the people chance to flock to wealthier areas without restraint.
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PostPosted: 09:51 - 25 May 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

And please do remember that fiat currencies are imaginary and now virtually disconnected from reality. You can't eat your bank balance.

What matters is production versus consumption. If you tax production to the point where people simply stop working[*] then you turn makers into takers, and the wheels come off the welfare wagon.

[*] I don't do overtime because the take-home after tax and NI is less than my basic hourly take-home. The more you work, the less extra you make.
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PostPosted: 10:19 - 25 May 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rogerborg wrote:


What matters is production versus consumption.


And please do remember that hardly anyone in the UK produces anything at all.

UK manufacturing only employs about 2.5M people. The rest just find ways to siphon money off from other areas, while a few are paid by us all to serve the public (and loathed for it).

Heh, is there a Marx version of Godwin's law..? I think this thread is getting there.
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PostPosted: 10:40 - 25 May 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Production is not only manufacturing...or we'd just use that word
People who offer services are producers too.
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PostPosted: 12:28 - 25 May 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Monkeywrencher wrote:
Production is not only manufacturing...or we'd just use that word
People who offer services are producers too.


I was thinking more along the lines of rentier capitalism
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Monkeywrencher wrote:
People who offer services are producers too.

Useful services.

Suing Peter to pay compo to Paul produces nothing. It's zero-sum, and less than zero from Peter and Pauls' perspectives after Susan Suebody takes her cut.
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