John Pilger: Why the British Said No to
Europe
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=173252#173252
By: John Pilger
Published 25 June 2016
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/John-Pilger-Why-the-British-Said-No-to-Europe-20160625-0022.html
John Pilger strikes a blow to the hypocrisy of a
wider political culture that apologizes for the
crimes of the EU while denigrating the nation's poor.
The majority vote by Britons to leave the
European Union was an act of raw democracy.
Millions of ordinary people refused to be
bullied, intimidated and dismissed with open
contempt by their presumed betters in the major
parties, the leaders of the business and banking oligarchy and the media.
This was, in great part, a vote by those angered
and demoralized by the sheer arrogance of the
apologists for the "remain" campaign and the
dismemberment of a socially just civil life in
Britain. The last bastion of the historic reforms
of 1945, the National Health Service, has been so
subverted by Tory and Labour-supported privateers it is fighting for its life.
A forewarning came when the treasurer, George
Osborne, the embodiment of both Britain's ancient
regime and the banking mafia in Europe,
threatened to cut 30 billion pounds from public
services if people voted the wrong way; it was blackmail on a shocking scale.
Immigration was exploited in the campaign with
consummate cynicism, not only by populist
politicians from the lunar right, but by Labour
politicians drawing on their own venerable
tradition of promoting and nurturing racism, a
symptom of corruption not at the bottom but at
the top. The reason millions of refugees have
fled the Middle East—first Iraq, now Syria—are
the invasions and imperial mayhem of Britain, the
United States, France, the European Union and
Nato. Before that, there was the willful
destruction of Yugoslavia. Before that, there was
the theft of Palestine and the imposition of Israel.
The pith helmets may have long gone, but the
blood has never dried. A nineteenth century
contempt for countries and peoples, depending on
their degree of colonial usefulness, remains a
centerpiece of modern "globalization," with its
perverse socialism for the rich and capitalism
for the poor: its freedom for capital and denial
of freedom to labor; its perfidious politicians and politicized civil servants.
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All this has now come home to Europe, enriching
the likes of Tony Blair and impoverishing and
disempowering millions. On 23 June, the British said no more.
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.
Little of this social catastrophe is acknowledged
in the bourgeois controlled media, notably the
Oxbridge dominated BBC. During the referendum
campaign, almost no insightful analysis was
allowed to intrude upon the clichéd hysteria
about "leaving Europe," as if Britain was about
to be towed in hostile currents somewhere north of Iceland.
On the morning after the vote, a BBC radio
reporter welcomed politicians to his studio as
old chums. "Well," he said to "Lord" Peter
Mandelson, the disgraced architect of Blairism,
"why do these people want it so badly?" The
"these people" are the majority of Britons.
The wealthy war criminal Tony Blair remains a
hero of the Mandelson "European" class, though
few will say so these days. The Guardian once
described Blair as "mystical" and has been true
to his "project" of rapacious war. The day after
the vote, the columnist Martin Kettle offered a
Brechtian solution to the misuse of democracy by
the masses. "Now surely we can agree referendums
are bad for Britain," said the headline over his
full-page piece. The "we" was unexplained but
understood—just as "these people" is understood.
"The referendum has conferred less legitimacy on
politics, not more," wrote Kettle. "The verdict
on referendums should be a ruthless one. Never again."
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The kind of ruthlessness Kettle longs is found in
Greece, a country now airbrushed. There, they had
a referendum and the result was ignored. Like the
Labour Party in Britain, the leaders of the
Syriza government in Athens are the products of
an affluent, highly privileged, educated middle
class, groomed in the fakery and political
treachery of post-modernism. The Greek people
courageously used the referendum to demand their
government sought "better terms" with a venal
status in Brussels that was crushing the life out
of their country. They were betrayed, as the British would have been betrayed.
On Friday, the Labour Party leader, Jeremy
Corbyn, was asked by the BBC if he would pay
tribute to the departed Cameron, his comrade in
the "remain" campaign. Corbyn fulsomely praised
Cameron's "dignity" and noted his backing for gay
marriage and his apology to the Irish families of
the dead of Bloody Sunday. He said nothing about
Cameron's divisiveness, his brutal austerity
policies, his lies about "protecting" the Health
Service. Neither did he remind people of the war
mongering of the Cameron government: the dispatch
of British special forces to Libya and British
bomb aimers to Saudi Arabia and, above all, the beckoning of world war three.
In the week of the referendum vote, no British
politician and, to my knowledge, no journalist
referred to Vladimir Putin's speech in St.
Petersburg commemorating the 75th anniversary of
Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union on 22
June, 1941. The Soviet victory—at a cost of 27
million Soviet lives and the majority of all
German forces—won the Second World War.
Putin likened the current frenzied build up of
NATO troops and war material on Russia's western
borders to the Third Reich's Operation
Barbarossa. NATO's exercises in Poland were the
biggest since the Nazi invasion; Operation
Anaconda had simulated an attack on Russia,
presumably with nuclear weapons. On the eve of
the referendum, the quisling secretary-general of
NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, warned Britons they would
be endangering "peace and security" if they voted
to leave the EU. The millions who ignored him and
Cameron, Osborne, Corbyn, Obama and the man who
runs the Bank of England may, just may, have
struck a blow for real peace and democracy in Europe.
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