Labour is getting itself stuck on the hook of Europe. Should it back an in-out referendum and satisfy the pull policies of Ukip and the Tory right? Much more importantly, will it ever let the people of Britain in on the elite project of Europe? The project that cuts the people out and that looks and talks down to them – the Europe of the bureaucrats and austerity. Labour is in a mess because it is mostly a pro-European party that wants to stay in Europe but feels the rising weight of inconsolable Euroscepticism all around it – at just the moment the Europe it supports is dying on its economic and political knees. If the people are offered a choice of sticking with this miserable, remote and...
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