Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
What has been largely missing from the whole saga imo is the coherent left-leaning critique of the EU, as expressed by Peter Shore and Tony Benn in the old days. Those on the right may well be sincere when talking about accountability but there will always be the suspicion that they simply don't like furrins.

Diana Johnstone wrote a piece about Italy for Consortium News, where she said:



https://consortiumnews.com/2018/06/0...r-cannot-hold/
THe future was supposed to be proportional representation which tends to lead to minority or coalition government and inevitably to centrist politics. THis is probably why the rest of europe is more comfortable with the EU than we are. When we have an election we want a clear result.

I am all for democracy, up to a point.