Di David Hunt - George Galloway, key 'Lexit' advocate, CC BY 2.0
The referendum on the UK exiting or staying in the European Union is not some popularity contest about whether you like or dislike the EU. Nor is it simply an internecine split among British Tories or capitalists which is of little interest to the rest of us – apart perhaps from sitting back to enjoy watching them tear each other apart. That would be lazy, narrow-minded and short-sighted. It is not necessarily the Left that will benefit from their divisions, especially if there is a right-wing Brexit victory to leave supported by its left-wing equivalent Lexit. Too much is at stake, especially for workers and socialists, both in the threats of a ‘Little Britain’ outside the EU, and in the potential for a wider fight against neo-liberal austerity in a hopefully ‘better Europe’.
The poverty of Lexit
Lexit, the socialist case for leaving the EU, is like a three-legged stool where one sturdy leg takes all the weight but the other two are bent, buckled or missing. Lame or one-legged, it not surprisingly falls over.
