If the Visegrád Nations can achieve immigration control within the EU, and the Tories pushing to use the UK's Brexit to turn the country into 'Global Britain', with open borders, absolute capitalism, crushing of living standards plunging the people into absolute poverty, are we being taken for fools?
http://www.oecd.org/eco/outlook/czech-republic-economic-forecast-summary.htm
More on the Czech Republic: patriotic and cultural pride, free university education, ultra-clean cities with absolutely seamless public transport - and at almost no cost at all compared to Britain. And able to assert itself without undue friction in the EU!
...and nationalised public transport too.
Makes Brexit seem like a fundamentalist quasi-religious fantasy of national salvation from evil - all actually to do with INTERNAL British political and historical issues. Murdoch/Daily Mail 'opium for the people'?
More on the Czech Republic: patriotic and cultural pride, free university education, ultra-clean cities with absolutely seamless public transport - and at almost no cost at all compared to Britain. And able to assert itself without undue friction in the EU!
...and nationalised public transport too.
Makes Brexit seem like a fundamentalist quasi-religious fantasy of national salvation from evil - all actually to do with INTERNAL British political and historical issues. Murdoch/Daily Mail 'opium for the people'?
Given a move to the more democratic and flexible guild socialist model in the British Isles and if the superiority of the model attracts imitation on the continent, new possibilities would present themselves. Reconstructed but divorced from the top heavy, bureaucratic old arrangements, COMECON might offer a model of national self-reliance, but with managed trade subject to economic planning across Europe and Eurasia. The victors write the history, a more favourable picture of the Comecon/ Warzaw Pact will emerge. However true worker ownership rather than rule by bureaucrat would see it given a people-centred dimension.
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