Which Way, Brexit?

The recent election in the UK has resulted in the election of Tory candidate Boris Johnson (BoJo) as Prime Minister.

After years of the UK establishment media smearing Jeremy Corbyn as a Jew hater, Nazi, communist, and everything bad under the sun, he, and the Labour party were handed a significant defeat.

However, the main reason for the defeat was Jeremy Corbyn’s and the Labour party’s stance on Brexit, which fluctuated from ambivalent to against, depending on who in the Labour party was doing the talking.

This inability of the Labour party to accept Brexit and get it done, as the majority of the UK public wanted-and as BoJo promised to do-sealed their fate. By its cold behavior toward Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party lost a lot of traditional working-class supporters who also voted for Brexit. What could’ve been a stunning victory for Labour turned into a tragic defeat.

All that Jeremy Corbyn had to do was to state that he will honor Brexit, get the UK out, and reach an agreement with the EU afterwards (as BoJo has now promised to do), and he would’ve won by a landslide.

This is all the more unfortunate since Jeremy Corbyn, and the Labour party’s programs were much better for the UK in the long-run than BoJo and the Tories fleecing and kicking around of the working class, selling out the country to rapacious big business, and sacrificing them to the malignant US tumor across the Atlantic.

The Labour supporters who voted for BoJo did so out of desperation. They just wanted Brexit. The smears against Corbyn had very little, if anything, to do with the damage that was done to Labour on election day. Both parties in the UK had a clear, popular mandate from the people. All they had to do is roll with it. The BoJo crowd and those who supported him did; Labour waffled and hesitated; the people noticed.

The Labour supporters who voted for BoJo probably did so with a heavy heart that election day. They will get their Brexit, with warts and all.

Because as good and right as Brexit is for the UK, its consequences could very well be quite bad. It all depends on what path BoJo takes.

Let’s remember that we have the US vultures circling Albion, ready to swoop down and pick whatever morsels of anything of value they can find. The NHS Is under threat, food and environmental regulations will be watered down and destroyed to ‘harmonize’ the country with the low standards that the US needs to be able to offload onto the UK all kinds of GMO, additive and chemical-laden garbage products onto the captive populace. Labour rights, union power, and legal rights of the working class will be mothballed wherever possible for the profits of multinational corporations.

Those Labour voters who cast their vote for BoJo may experience a Phyrric victory.

There is also another serious problem, or problems, that are rearing its heads.

Majority of the pro-Brexit votes came from England and Wales. The majority of remain votes came from Scotland and N. Ireland. The two latter entities now are at odds with London, and have started talking about their own ‘independence referendums.’

The recent UK elections that delivered a win for BoJo, also delivered an anti-Brexit majority in Scotland and N. Ireland. For the first time in history, the majority of N. Ireland’s lawmakers are pro-Irish republicans.

We could witness Scotland and N. Ireland secede from the UK, which would see the UK go through the most serious existential crisis since the end of its imperial days.

It is a bleak situation for the UK and its working people, who in reality have no good options. Either they stay under EU control, or leave the EU and go under the US boot, and with the added headache of possible secession of important parts of the country.

The UK could exercise an independent and courageous streak, mind its own best interests and those of the working people who helped elect BoJo, and keep the exploitative US and EU at arm’s length. Conclude fair and just trade deals, including with countries like Russia and China. Engage in a multi-vector foreign and economic policy, and take full advantage of the freedom of choice and action that Brexit will deliver.

But doubts remain about whether BoJo has the decency and the heart to do this. His past rhetoric and actions have already marked him as a stooge of the wealthy elite, the US, and the pro-zionist rabble.

So it remains to be seen in what direction he takes Brexit.