For those of us who didn’t know it before, these negotiations have revealed the beauty of the Single Market. It enables the creation of enormous economic power through scale while at the same time by regulation setting economic activity firmly in the context of social values.
Contrast this with the brutalist, one could almost say 19th century, approach to economics of #Brexit advocates whose vision is limited to a simplistic profit motive & who consider social provision, the environment & human rights etc essentially as hindrances to economic growth.
This makes the views of the so-called Lexit camp all the more ridiculous. So much of what a leftwing party should aspire to is embodied in the Single Market. And yet #Lexiters fail to see that and take the side of the brutalist capitalists!
What is brilliant is the *strength* of the Single Market. The Single Market is not some kind of utopian dream. It is the harnessing of effective economic organisation with positive social goals and values.
#Brexiters were deluded to think they could destroy the Single Market with their brutalist economics. It turns out they are doing little more than trying to bring Everest down by tapping it with a hammer.
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