Labour should learn to love Brexit, not just tolerate it
Instead of backing our exit grudgingly, the Left ought to reclaim the socialist roots of Euroscepticism
28 December 2020 • 6:00am
Labour will vote for the UK/EU trade deal on Wednesday, a remarkable turnaround, given that Sir Keir Starmer was a militant Europhile. Politics has changed: Remain is now the peripheral position. The question Labour faces is, should it just accept Brexit or embrace it? I’d urge the latter, for two reasons.
First, Brexit makes the argument for social democracy, and its construction, a little easier. Many Tories wanted to leave the EU as a means of reducing the size of the state; recall Mrs Thatcher’s warning at Bruges in 1988 that Britain hadn’t defeated socialism at home only to have it imposed from overseas. But Brexit in practice is so disruptive that it justifies
From the NS Archive: The Referendum Choice 30 May 1975: The
New Statesman invited 16 academics and authors to say which way they will vote in the Common Market referendum on Thursday and why.
In June 1975 Britain held a referendum to decide on whether or not the country should remain in the European Community/Common Market. A matter of days before the vote, the magazine asked a selection of leading intellectuals, from Margaret Drabble and Kenneth Tynan to AJP Taylor and AJ Ayer, which way they would vote. The reasoning behind the decisions was remarkably consistent with that given by Leavers and Remainers in the referendum of 2016. This is not, however, a case of plus ça change – in 1975 the out-of-Europe voices were on the left and the most fervent stay-inners were on the right.
December 15 , 2020
U.S.-based avocado suppliers say they are expecting strong and stable volumes over the next couple of months, with an increase in the run-up to the Super Bowl.
Donny Lucy, Vice President of Sales at Del Rey Avocado Company, told FreshFruitPortal.com that supplies have been steady over recent weeks, hitting around 50 million pounds per week into the U.S. market.
He said that for now this pace is likely to continue with a balance size profile, but volumes will likely pick up in the new year. We expect a weekly increase in volume to match the demand for the Super Bowl, and obviously we are not sure what that will look like given the current situation, but we are anticipating higher demand and higher volume certainly from the middle to the end of January, he said.