The You Tube videos reveal that working people in the U.K., especially in the industrial or former industrial areas of England and Wales, voted for Brexit because of the effects of years of neoliberal policies implemented by the Conservatives and the Labour Party over the past few decades.
They also reveal how the centre-left, which used to strongly be for the interests of the workers, has become more like the Conservatives in imposing austerity measures upon the working people and how the European Union capitalists want to depress the wages of western European workers to the level of wages in the poorest Eastern European countries as part of the Neo-liberal's much touted "globalisation" which is nothing more than a prettified term for imperialism and hegemony.
I really hated it when I saw how the ideology of globalisation and open borders to trade was pushed as a "great thing" for humankind,with such neoliberal ideology flowing through the Internet and parroted by Internet wallahs, business consultants, management consultants, spin doctors and their subservient media, when I knew that this globalisation only benefits business people who want to be able to arbitrage labour costs by sourcing the cheapest cost labour anywhere in the world thanks to the global reach of the Internet.
Well, something had to give sooner or later, unless they euthanise (merfifully kill) the chronically unemployed who cannot find jobs because they are unable to acquire new skills and "move up the value chain".
Now, these much derided "useless eaters" are finally stirring and are not ready to be turned into Soylent Green, as portrayed in that 1973 movie (CLICK HERE), but instead are now flexing their muscles against the neoliberal elite by turning to the far-left or the far-right, and in Europe and North America, more towards the far-right than the far-left.
Why did England's North vote to leave the European Union?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1zL3wDLyXk
Brexit: The immigrants who voted Leave - BBC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fec8Ya-MhXk
Full Show 6/30/16: Brexit: The Backlash Against Neoliberalism?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v39xA13xGIk
Why Brexit Is Good For Working People In Clear, Simple Terms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xq-gWv91WM
In the last video, the Scottish professor speaks about how the centre-left of New Labour has betrayed the working people and how the leadership of the centre-left has supported and pursued imperialist wars against Iraq, Libya and other countries in the Middle East, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
I spent my university days in the north of England and my sympathies remain with the people of the north of England.
Of course, Brexit does not mean the end of neo-liberalism in the U.K. or anywhere else in the world but it's a blow by the working people against it, which could encourage more blows against it to come, and quite probably kill off the TPP as well in the process.
We are witnessing a sea change taking place in the world, where the tide is turning against the dominance of neoliberal policies in the last 35 or so years, which have impoverised billions of people around the world and which has only benefited the elite 1%.
CHARLES F MOREIRA
Note: There was a mistake in my original title which read "MANY WORKERS VOTED AGAINST BREXIT..." when I meant "MANY WORKERS VOTED FOR BREXIT...". It was a slip on my part - Charles
05 July 2016
IF THIS WEATHER FORECAST CAN BE BELIEVED, THE HOT AND DRY SPELL LOOKS LIKE COMING TO AN END
Petaling Jaya and the Klang Valley saw a return of suffocatingly hot and dry weather, with daytime temperatures as high as 37 degrees Celsius soon after the Summer Solstice around 21 June but if this weather forecast can be believed, it looks like we are heading into cooler and wetter days ahead.
CHARLES F. MOREIRA
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)