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LABOUR'S conference was ecstatic as Prime Minister Andy Burham's speech seemed to signal a return to Labour values.
If true, it will have wide support after the shocking Thatcher/Blair legacy of neoliberal privatisation, marketisation and deregulation.
What we don't need is a Brexit rerun!
Leaving the EU gave British governments a powerful weapon against the prevailing ideology of finance capital and the City of London.
The fantasy peddled by Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and the right of a Singapore-on-Thames was always delusion but this doesn't alter the basic fact.
The EU is a vehicle for austerity and deregulation.
Returning to the EU won't change the things that need changing!
We need public procurement favouring domestic producers.
State investment in key sectors.
Control over international trade.
All impossible in an EU devoted to brutal Greek-style austerity and impoverishing communities in the interests of the bankers.
Our establishment has resisted basic change and the economic problems underlying the Brexit vote remain.
Burham has declared he'll address these issues but the EU would block his plans.
Whether in or out of the EU, impoverishing the majority to boost the wealth of a minority is the chosen strategy of our power elite.
Instead, we need a re-industrialised, sovereign Britain with the highest regulatory and environmental standards.
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A Britain with a large and growing public sector with fully unionised jobs.
We must implement the 2016 vote but in an economically and socially progressive direction!