Tomorrow's Parliamentary vote..my opinion
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Steve Burak
Oct 18, 2019, 6:50:32 PM10/18/19
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It's really very simple :
We need to stay in! The reasoning is not complex : the global economy is shrinking and will continue to do so and climate catastrophe issues are increasingly registering and will also continue to do so.
Under no condition must we resign our trust to the utterly untrustworthy sleight of hand
of Trumpian America. Beyond the terrible threat of increasing deregulation and increasing lack of protection of workers' rights as well as the increasing general weakening of the protection of the economic and social, democratic position of the ordinary citizen, who would doubtlessly come off so badly in a multitude of ways, there is another very simple geographic, spatial reality that would exponentially become more evident.
As we move into an increasingly dystopian future of increasing general insecurity, increasing inequality and increasing general poverty, we will need to strengthen rather than weaken our relationship with our immediate spatial geographic neighbours and forego the dewy-eyed, highly suspect vision that we would somehow be able to securely depend on some big and powerful nation an ocean and thousands of miles away : in a rapidly changing economic, societal and environmental milieu we will need to increasingly develop the closeness, that meaningful bond of geographical intimacy both across the different regions of the country as well as critically beyond our immediate borders. How the other countries of Europe will be able to help us and vice versa as the general global milieu becomes more difficult in the near future will become of paramount importance. The big-world mentality, serving the selfish, aggrandising modus operandi of multinational companies, inscrutably located between the gaps in the law must be abandoned, and we will have to replace that with a diligent and careful cultivation of a healthy and mutually helpful relationship with our immediate geographic neighbours. Moreover, the alternative would probably mean that we would become increasingly isolated between the devil and the deep blue sea.
Steve B
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We need to stay in! The reasoning is not complex : the global economy is shrinking and will continue to do so and climate catastrophe issues are increasingly registering and will also continue to do so.
Under no condition must we resign our trust to the utterly untrustworthy sleight of hand
of Trumpian America. Beyond the terrible threat of increasing deregulation and increasing lack of protection of workers' rights as well as the increasing general weakening of the protection of the economic and social, democratic position of the ordinary citizen, who would doubtlessly come off so badly in a multitude of ways, there is another very simple geographic, spatial reality that would exponentially become more evident.
As we move into an increasingly dystopian future of increasing general insecurity, increasing inequality and increasing general poverty, we will need to strengthen rather than weaken our relationship with our immediate spatial geographic neighbours and forego the dewy-eyed, highly suspect vision that we would somehow be able to securely depend on some big and powerful nation an ocean and thousands of miles away : in a rapidly changing economic, societal and environmental milieu we will need to increasingly develop the closeness, that meaningful bond of geographical intimacy both across the different regions of the country as well as critically beyond our immediate borders. How the other countries of Europe will be able to help us and vice versa as the general global milieu becomes more difficult in the near future will become of paramount importance. The big-world mentality, serving the selfish, aggrandising modus operandi of multinational companies, inscrutably located between the gaps in the law must be abandoned, and we will have to replace that with a diligent and careful cultivation of a healthy and mutually helpful relationship with our immediate geographic neighbours. Moreover, the alternative would probably mean that we would become increasingly isolated between the devil and the deep blue sea.
Steve B
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