Think you may be starting to get why putting the EU before Corbyn's essential policies on benefits, the disabled, nationalisation (which is not permitted under the EU's neoliberal rules on competition), and defending the weakest and poorest in our country was criminally ill advised.
You clearly hold the UK working class in utter contempt, and make that clear in every despicable post you make.
You won't get to post on this forum unopposed whilst I have the breath to point out your folly.
"When observing the popular protests against the European Union's handling of the recent (2008 onwards) financial and sovereign debt crises, whether in Portugal, Ireland, or Greece, what many people in the streets objected to was not only the EU's perceived lack of democracy that manifested in them feeling as if having no impact on their own faith. They also often opposed the European Union's neoliberal character, whether real or perceived. What, then, is this idea of a European neoliberal governmentality, and is the EU really a neoliberal project? Furthermore, how has this transformed the nation state on top of those changes?
The European integration project was a political one in essence, though the mechanism of building an ever closer union was an economic one. Thus, the origins of the EU's neoliberalism go back to the global economic crisis in the 1970s. The global response to this was to open up and deepen markets around the globe, which increasingly came to shape also European integration, particularly from the 1980s onwards. Both the completion of a single European market and the introduction of the economic and monetary union which saw the introduction of the Euro were informed by the neoliberal logic of market competition.
Over time, the EU's financial markets were integrated, and the individual nation states were left to increasingly compete for investment by large, transnational, industrial corporations. Among the many ways for those nation states to ensure that they would be at the winning side of this competition was to cut labour costs, decrease corporate taxes, or compromise on standards such as safety or environmental ones. However, according to opponents of this neoliberal character of the European Union, the real winner of this competition was transnational capital, as it managed to transform itself from an economic force to a political one. In essence, a relatively coherent and well-organized transnational corporate elite began to set the European agenda and shape European policy-making.
By doing so, neoliberalism is often seen as posing a threat to the traditional understanding of nation states as it impacts national values and institutions. Though this neoliberalism of the European integration project is seen as troublesome by many Europeans, it has been clear long before the more recent protests in the countries worst hit by the Euro crisis. It is argued that neoliberalism's potential to further erode the remaining powers of the nation state to provide its population with security, welfare, and decent living conditions stood behind the French rejecting the Lisbon treaty establishing a constitution for Europe in 2005*."
Dr Marek Neuman
History and Theory of European Integration - Faculty Board
Groningen
The Netherlands
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"Although this rejection and the similar vote in the Dutch referendum seriously damaged the Constitution, subsequent EU Presidency holders vowed to keep it going.
Nicolas Sarkozy was elected President of the French Republic in May 2007. Amongst his pledges was a re-negotiation and ratification of a mini-treaty without a referendum. Eventually, the new version of the text, the Lisbon Treaty, was voted by the French Parliament." - wikipedia
The only conclusion, democracy is hated by our EU overlords. Neoliberalism, market forces and globalisation are their only gods.
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