Reform and return to the EU

Whatever happened to that “oven-ready, easiest trade deal in history” with the EU the PM promised?

Well, at the time of writing,

it’s either a dog’s dinner deal or no deal, both of which will very likely leave the vast majority of people, including Brexiteers, worse off with higher prices for food and other commodities, etc.

This and the long lorry queues at ports which, as one wag in a national paper put it, may need Chaucer’s great work to be re-titled ‘The Canterbury Tailbacks’!

Further, the much vaunted US Trade Deal proposals, are now on the back burner with incoming President Biden; and I wouldn’t trust this government not to break its manifesto promises not to flog off our NHS, long beleaguered by austerity, to US corporations.

Thus no doubt, as the realities of Brexit have become ever clearer, these and more are the reasons why the vast majority of polls now show that most people consider Brexit to be a mistake.

Finally, the idea the EU could collapse, a very unlikely scenario anyway, would not be due to the overall concept but because of the folly of neo-liberal economics.

Much of the remain cause would, as I do, back the ongoing Democracy in Europe Movement proposals for the deep reform the EU requires, along with campaigning for a return as soon as practicable.

The Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers is asking shoppers to ‘Keep Your Cool’