The Tory media have described Theresa May's response to her inevitable rebuff by the EU as anger. But, her response did not reflect anger, other than the petulant anger of a toddler that has failed to get its own way, and thrown its dummy out. Rather what Theresa May's demeanour reflected was desperation. The sweat apparent on her face, at the news conference was both a literal and metaphorical statement of the fact that the delusion that the Tories and Brextremists have perpetuated over the last two years that the EU needs Britain, more than we need them, that the EU needs Britain's money, and other such nonsense has been exposed, and they are now sweating as the time runs out on the reckless gamble that they have undertaken with the British economy, and the livelihoods of British people.
May and the Tories have had no idea what their plan would be after Brexit, and that fact is becoming increasingly clear as the day of judgement draws ever nearer. We need a General Election and a Labour Government, but Labour needs now to tell the truth to the British workers that Brexit was a terrible decision that will damage their interest in the short, medium and longer term. Labour should argue for reversing the Brexit decision, and for linking up with European workers and progressive social-democratic and socialist parties across Europe, for an EU wide end to austerity, for am EU wide programme of fiscal expansion, and rebuilding of infrastructure, as well as a wide ranging democratisation of the EU itself, and extension of workers rights, including the introduction of far reaching industrial democracy and workers control.
Labour needs, in doing so to give workers a clear reason to vote for them on the basis of such a progressive agenda, rather than the backward looking ideas of the Tories.
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