The Prime Minister is meeting German
Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Emmanuel Macron of France this week. His
spin doctors say Boris Johnson is going to tell them that a negotiated
withdrawal from the European Union is attainable if they would only drop their
demand for an Irish “back-stop”. He will doubtless threaten them with a
“no-deal” Brexit which could precipitate a snap election and a Tory defeat at
the hands of a Corbyn-led coalition.
None of this is likely to impress the leaders
of Franco-German imperialism. At the moment everything is going their way.
Johnson thought he could outflank Labour and
the maverick Tories in the Brexit Party by threatening to by-pass Parliament
altogether over Europe. Instead he has boxed himself into a constitutional
crisis which could rapidly force him out of office.
Liberal-Democrat and Blairite efforts to
side-step Jeremy Corbyn in Parliament have failed and the Remainers are
coalescing around the inevitability of a Corbyn-led government. The Corbyn
leadership has embraced the call for a second referendum and all but said they
will campaign to Remain when and if this so-called “People’s Vote” takes place.
The trigger will be the vote of no-confidence that Labour is expected to move
when Parliament re-opens in September.
Let’s see what happens. In the meantime we
have to put the communist answer to the crisis back on the workers’ agenda. It
starts with: No to the European Union; No to austerity; No to neo-liberalism
and Yes to socialism!
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