Brian Feeney: Invece di tagliare i benefici, il lavoro deve affrontare l’elefante nella stanza – Brexit
https://www.irishnews.com/opinion/brian-feeney-instead-of-cutting-benefits-labour-needs-to-tackle-the-economic-elephant-in-the-room-brexit-BFQUD6DRANE67GE4EDCM66PVPQ/
di Jeffreys_therapist
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Labour is making the same mistakes in Britain that the Democrats are in the US – trying to chase the right-wing vote by being only slightly less right-wing. They know very well that Brexit has been a catastrophuck but they are too cowardly to admit it.
Yes it does
It really says something about the republican credentials of FFG that they didn’t seize the bull by the horns and start a charm offensive in the North directed towards moderate/wavering unionists (small U) who can be persuaded by their pocket slightly more than their sentiment.
Apart from the Shared Island Fund, Dublin has done little to promote a reunified island (though I suspect that there is a back-room ‘gentleman’s agreement’ about who says what, when) when the Brits have consistently done their best to ruin their own country over the last decade and a half
This was always gonna happen and both parties have been playing hot potato with it for years.
Abso-fuckin-lutely!
The EU will take us back, we represent a significant bolstering of their military in these uncertain times.
Now is absolutely the right moment to start the drive back into the EU. There will never be a better moment.
Shouldn’t we be thanking Labour’s chief of staff, Corkman Morgan McSweeney, for these disgusting policies that punish the disabled.
Labour will need to have their hand forced on the B word as they’re too reluctant to take on the DM brigade right now, but it is possible after the next GE they will be reliant on the Lib Dems to form a coalition and with the LDs being very pro EU we might actually see some movement on the subject
Irish person in England here. What you have to understand about British politics is that they are all fucking terrified of losing the grey vote. There was absolute uproar when Labour announced they would make the ONLY universal social welfare payment in the UK, the winter fuel allowance for pensioners, means tested. Brexit was an old man’s game and until politicians are certain that enough of them have died off to restart the Europe debate they will dance around it. That’s despite the fact that polling consistently shows high levels of ‘Bregret’ and a desire to rejoin entirely or just the customs union etc. but because pensioners all vote, it only matters what they want.
I am, sadly, based in the UK… happily, I’m in Scotland so it’s not so bad.
I travel home to Ireland often, and have been doing that for over a decade, as well as having a job which, until recently, involved a lot of European travel.
The difference between the UK and the rest of Europe is **stark**. I see it more keenly between the UK and Ireland because I’m more familiar with it, but I have friends all over Europe and they see it too.
The UK is a country in decline. Things seem to have accelerated since 2012 but there’s just nothing positive happening here now while with the rest of Europe things are getting better. Sure there are social and economic problems everywhere but there are positive things happening despite these… except in the UK.
I could not understand the last election, in that it wasn’t so much a vote *for* Labour as it was a vote *against* the Conservatives. Now, I kind of the it. I think a lot of people were expecting Labour to be better, to protect the things which support people and to invest in things which needed it. They’re delivering neither of these things.
It is impossible to see how they can get the UK out of this hole by doing what they are doing – cutting more an more.
If I didn’t have a house and a job and a partner (with only a UK passport) I’d be gone. Much as I love it here I just don’t see things getting any better any time soon.
Our benefits have been abused for a long time. Time to fix them.
They’ll never rejoin the EU. They wouldn’t get their opt-outs back and they’d have to join the Euro (unless they pull a Sweden).