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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.
Well said Mr Pilger.
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How does he explain that that social inequality isn't replicated in Germany or France?
Pilger's calling everything that's bad with Britain what's bad with the EU. Then he's calling everything that's bad there what's bad about the metropolitan elite which equates to people who read the Guardian.
Syriza ignored a referendum result in Greece not because it feared that there was more suffering for people outside the EU than inside, but because (in common with Guardian readers in London) they went to university.
Everyone he doesn't like is saying or thinking the thoughts of someone else he doesn't like, they just don't realise it.On the Today programme Corbyn made the unforgivable mistake of not saying what John Pilger would've said.
Then a fantasy that the incoherent and contradictory voices within Brexit are an incohate version of what John Pilger's been saying all along. They just need time to get there.Then a final scold that all of us should be thinking about what he's thinking about: Russia.
The guy's a child.
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Such colourful assertions and dodgy analyses.
How is growing up in a family with one working parent a 'trap'? It sounds pretty ideal to me.
Fintan
miro_o
That Pilger article is brilliant:
http://johnpilger.com/articles/why-the-british-said-no-to-europe