Thread by @EuropeanPowell

It won't stop unless the UK joins the #SingleMarket
Shortage of European workers is a major contributing factor to Britain’s economic gloom.
‘Britannia Chained: Brexit has Left the UK in a State of National Decline’ – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2023/01/31/bri…

According to the IMF, even Russia – hit by massive international sanctions – is set to out-perform the UK. When it comes to our nearest global competitors, the self-imposed economic sanctions of Brexit appear to outweigh all others.
Even Russia...

Disaster capitalists, r/w populists and fascists have hobbled a once stable country that rarely suffered the sort of political ruptures that affected other nations. 7 years of BS since the vote to leave the EU, Britain has become a byword for political chaos.

UK has had 5 PMs, 7 chancellors and is currently gearing up for its 3rd GE. Meanwhile, the Govt which took the decision to hold the EU Referendum in the 1st place has become paralysed by scandal and allegations of corruption. #EnoughlsEnough #BrexitDisaster

65% of voters now believe the Conservative Party is ‘institutionally corrupt’, with just 18% disagreeing.
Operation Yellowhammer played out to the letter, total chaos and obscene levels of white collar criminality is rife. New Voter ID will disenfranchise millions of voters too.

UK's unelected representatives are tone deaf to their own citizens lives and livelihoods, you're chattel to them. Sunak's delusion is symptomatic of how capital accumulation is a dangerous addiction that begets despotism.
Can your family afford to keep indulging these lunatics?

With economic and political reality both pointing towards the need for Britain to fundamentally rethink its relations with the EU, Labour’s stated plans to merely tinker around the edges of the UK’s current deal is unlikely to prove sufficient.

‘Global Britain’ is a chimera. It took just 7 weeks for the Truss fiasco to show that Britain can’t ‘go it alone’. Permanent damage to major parts of UK economy outside the EU are indisputabler: capacity for growth and UK tax revenues diminished. #Brexit
bylinetimes.com/2023/01/31/bre…

On the economy Labour should state unequivocally that it has no intention of de-aligning from the regulatory framework of the Single Market. There will be no race to the bottom on industrial, environmental or social standards or the creation of separate UK product standards.

This will create the conditions of basic trust where a UK Government can discuss revising the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) so that a new economic partnership with the EU can be explored that would benefit both parties.

UK simply cannot continue without the foundational laws of a protectionist Europe. Austerity as policy choice leads to fascism. The oppositions position on Brexit incentivizes the Govt to continue it's libertarian agenda which is incompatible with democracy.

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