Brexit: cancelled by Britain’s ruling class

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Big business has never agreed with the result of the 2016 referendum.

The Bank of England, City banks and bosses’’organisations the CBI, the Institute of Directors and the Engineering Employers Federation wanted us to vote ‘Remain’.

So did most mainstream right-wing politicians.

After losing the referendum, Theresa May’s Cabinet and the EU cooked up a Withdrawal Agreement to keep Britain tied to the EU Single Market.

EU rules would halt a future Labour government’s policies for public investment in industry and infrastructure (including housing and public transport), an end to privatisation and outsourcing, cuts in VAT and a ban on the super-exploitation of migrant workers.

No wonder the British ruling class opposes Brexit!

But MPs can’t agree on whether to accept Theresa May’s half-baked Brexit – or to cancel Brexit with an EU-style second referendum.

When the peoples of Ireland (twice), Denmark, the Netherlands, France and Greece voted against EU…

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