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UK: May unable to stem Tory crisis over Brexit, but still propped up by Corbyn By Robert Stevens
UK Prime Minister Theresa May has headed off a potential leadership challenge once again but faces demands from Conservative backbench MPs that she set a date for her departure. Continue reading
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Brexit Delay: the Soviets Would Have Understood It By Seth Ferris
So the Brexit saga has taken another twist, and become even more confusing and uncertain. All we can predict is that whatever the UK government says will happen is the one thing which won’t. May has failed to deliver Brexit. Instead she keeps coming back to parliament with an appalling deal. She’s now delaying Brexit… Continue reading
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Brexit – The truth about the economy and what’s next
Last December, TruePublica broke the news that the mainstream media had either misunderstood or blatantly misquoted a very particular study about the real cost of Brexit. The most accurate of reports of that study in the MSM stated that –“Theresa May’s Brexit deal is expected to cost the UK economy as much as £100bn over the next… Continue reading
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The EU Is Tearing the UK Apart Over Brexit By Tom Luongo
Brexit has been a fascinating thing to watch. Despite all of the twists and turns, the incomprehensible motions, legal maneuvers and behavior of Prime Minister Theresa “I Surrender” May, for me there’s been a simple through-line to it all. Continue reading
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The political implications of the Corbyn/May Brexit talks
The talks on an alternative Brexit deal between UK Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn decisively refute all claims that his election as leader of the Labour Party offered a way forward for working people. Continue reading
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May offers Corbyn “national unity” Brexit agreement talks By Chris Marsden
Prime Minister Theresa May emerged from a fractious seven-hour cabinet meeting of her Conservative Party with an unprecedented offer to collaborate with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to secure an agreement on Brexit they could jointly recommend to parliament. If agreed, this would then be put to the European Union. Continue reading
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Class struggle and socialism are the only answer to the Brexit crisis
The prospect of leaving the European Union has provoked the deepest crisis of rule in the post-war history of British imperialism. But the great danger is that the working class is not only being prevented from intervening in its own interests, it is being divided against itself and politically subordinated to one or the other… Continue reading
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Brexit: Will Tories Risk an Election Corbyn Might Win?
A third defeat for Theresa May’s Brexit plan sets up April 12 as the drop-dead date for an unlikely agreement in Parliament, a second referendum, a hard Brexit, or a general election where Jeremy Corbyn will present a progressive vision for Brexit and the future – Leo Panitch joins Paul Jay Continue reading
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Brexit Has Ceased to be the “Will of the People”: Study By Jack Peat
National Centre for Social Research data found 55 per cent of Brits would vote Remain in a second referendum, with just six per cent of respondents saying they now think the UK will secure a good Brexit deal – a massive reduction from the 33 per cent who were optimistic about the outcome of negotiations when… Continue reading
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Britain’s mother of all crises By Rob Sewell
The Mother of Parliaments is now home to the mother of all crises. Brexit has tested the UK’s institutions and unwritten constitution to their limits. We are in uncharted waters – and in Theresa May’s case, in a rapidly sinking boat without a life vest. Continue reading
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Parliament rejects all alternatives as May’s offer to resign fails to stem Brexit crisis By Robert Stevens
Wednesday began with Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May informing her MPs that she will resign as party leader and prime minister if parliament passes the withdrawal deal she has agreed with the European Union (EU). It ended with a series of indicative votes on possible alternatives post-Brexit, none of which secured a majority. Continue reading
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“Brexit is a shambles—it will affect so many people in many ways”
Reporters for the World Socialist Web Site spoke to demonstrators at Saturday’s anti-Brexit protest in London. They explained the social and political concerns that brought them to support the demand for a second referendum. Continue reading
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With a Hard Brexit Looming, UK Invites 10,000 Foreign Troops Over for Military Exercises
The U.K. government’s martial-law option for Brexit would allow government ministers to impose curfews and travel bans, confiscate private property, and deploy the armed forces to any U.K. location of their choosing. LONDON — As the drama over Brexit continues to reach new heights, the U.K. government has raised eyebrows by announcing that it will… Continue reading
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Brexit Britain – The planned stages of social change
By TruePublica: Whilst the far-right gains traction and their anarchic voices get louder, behind the scenes the dark forces that funds and promotes them are working to what documents reveal is a three-stage model of social change. What we are really witnessing through Brexit is the acceleration of a programme of economic regime change by… Continue reading
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Brexit – The billionaires scam the MSM don’t want you to know
In the book – Brexit – A corporate Coup D’Etat I dedicated an entire chapter to an event that the ‘mainstream media’ in Britain were fully aware of but published nothing. Continue reading
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Corbyn props up May government after more Brexit vote defeats By Robert Stevens
At the conclusion of a series of votes this week, MPs in the deeply divided British parliament supported the Conservative government requesting an extension to Article 50, by 413 votes to 202. Continue reading
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Geoffrey Cox’s New “Legal Advice” on Brexit Incentivises Unionist Violence By Craig Murray
Brexit has revealed further the rottenness of the British political Establishment, but I am still truly shocked now to see the Government of the United Kingdom negotiating a major international treaty on the acknowledged, discussed and now published basis that it has every intention of breaking that treaty once it is in force. Officially published… Continue reading
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Britain: Corbyn, no more concessions! By Adam Booth
Jeremy Corbyn has promised the possibility of a second referendum in an attempt to pacify the Blairites. But such compromises will only embolden the Labour right wing. These careerists must instead be shown the door.Brexit is beginning to take its toll on Britain’s political parties. Both Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn are desperately attempting to… Continue reading
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UK Labour leader Corbyn endorses Blairite call for second Brexit referendum By Robert Stevens
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn announced Monday evening that he was ready to support a second referendum “to prevent a damaging Tory Brexit being forced on the country.” Continue reading
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US psychological warfare techniques being used to overthrow British democracy
There have always been lobbyists and PR people involved in politics. We have always had think tanks that have leaned in a certain direction and provided research and speakers partial to their side of the debate. So what are the special concerns that cause us to claim that our system is developing in such a… Continue reading
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