Originally posted by @pap
John Pilger nails it once again.
The most effective propagandists of the “European ideal” have not been the far right, but an insufferably patrician class for whom metropolitan London is the United Kingdom. Its leading members see themselves as liberal, enlightened, cultivated tribunes of the 21st century zeitgeist, even “cool”. What they really are is a bourgeoisie with insatiable consumerist tastes and ancient instincts of their own superiority. In their house paper, the Guardian, they have gloated, day after day, at those who would even consider the EU profoundly undemocratic, a source of social injustice and a virulent extremism known as “neoliberalism”.
The aim of this extremism is to install a permanent, capitalist theocracy that ensures a two-thirds society, with the majority divided and indebted, managed by a corporate class, and a permanent working poor. In Britain today, 63 per cent of poor children grow up in families where one member is working. For them, the trap has closed. More than 600,000 residents of Britain’s second city, Greater Manchester, are, reports a study, “experiencing the effects of extreme poverty” and 1.6 million are slipping into penury.
http://johnpilger.com/articles/why-the-british-said-no-to-europe
Sorry, The onlything Pilger ‘nails’ is demonstrating a complete lack of irony. It seems he has decided to vent his spleen against another invented stereotype - the London neoliberal- jeez is he for real? Trying to suggest the remain argument is all pseudointellectualism… Yet pontificating from his own homemade ivory tower - a combination of condecention and total patronising bollocks.
I have not met one remained who would not acknowledge the democratic challenge posed by the EU in its current state - but most have decided that this not a decision that could be left to such a principle - because whilst it may afford for like Pilger a level of smug satisfaction - most looked at real issues - he is completely disingenuous about the immigration issue - and forgets that our domestic challenges of poverty are results not of the EU, but of domestic policy and an electorate that is happy to stand by and vote for austerity as opposed to tax and spend.
I’m just surprised he did not slip in the old 'liberal elite’put down …
He has the fucking cheek to talk of propaganda … There has been more balanced acknowledgement of the shite spread by Both sides in here than in that heap of shit prose.
