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"We need to move away from the assumption that xenophobic immigration hysteria is the only reason to object to freedom of movement of labour. "
Where do I state this?
I had a look around at research around wage lowering and actually the effect is small, this is the argument the left is using atm.The local socialist parties in NI are NOT against freedom of movement, now they could be a small sample size.
"but it's clear that Corbyn doubts the possibility of delivering a "progressive" policy platform whilst maintaining our current relationship to the single market. " correct but the arguments he gives have been debunked, so it would be nice if then gives others.
JWestland-
Where do I state this?
I guess I misinterpreted you, although it's been a common claim in this thread the past couple of years.
the arguments he gives have been debunked
I haven't actually read the whole report on this but from what I've read I wouldn't say they've been debunked. What has been debunked is the Troika's favourite strategy of pushing continued austerity on struggling EU economies.
Now you could of course argue that the UK is not at risk of the same full-scale economic meltdown as Portugal, Spain, Greece etc but I think that would be missing the bigger picture and would certainly contradict any principles of international solidarity.
How exactly would a Labour government nationalise the entire rail industry without breaching EU competition rules?
Edit: hit send too soon.
spiderpie
I'm really not sure how you came to this conclusion.
We need to move away from the assumption that xenophobic immigration hysteria is the only reason to object to freedom of movement of labour. Remain supporters clinging onto this nonsense is a large part of the reason for the poor standard of debate between the left and the Labour "moderates".
I won't get into my position because I don't think it would go down very well here, but it's clear that Corbyn doubts the possibility of delivering a "progressive" policy platform whilst maintaining our current relationship to the single market. I think his statements on the topic have been uniquely (by the standard of parliamentary politics at the moment) nuanced and realistic but for some reason it's more important to most that he takes a "clear stance" in whatever direction.