Brexit Could Be the Socialist Dream

Dawn broke around the staggered news of Leave winning the EU Referendum.

From all the bad coverage Brexit got, it looked to be a risky, unwise choice.

What if I told you it wasn’t?

During the course of the campaign, both sides of the argument were fueled by fear, and though we’ve already discovered that the potential of the pound dropping was true, it might not all be bleak. For now, just ignore the imminent finical crisis rumoured to be worse than that of 2008.

The vote for Brexit has divided the electorate, not just between parties and separating Scotland and London from the rest of the UK, but along the political spectrum. One glance at social media might tell you that Brexit was a win for the far right, but think it through and you’ll realise it’s not quite so simple. In fact, the far left were also voting to Leave.

There are many ways in which Brexit is actually a move towards socialism.

Whilst a lot of the debate has been about immigration, and Britain “closing its borders” has been seen as a deeply racist stance, there’s another side to the story.

In an interview with EvolvePolitics, George Galloway said: “There is nothing left-wing about unlimited mass immigration. It decapitates the countries from the immigrants leave, and drives down wages in those where they arrive.

“The wealthy benefit from it, as they can afford cheap labor for their companies, or cheap au-pairs, cheap baristas, cheap plumbers. But the working class suffers.”

The path to nationalisation is one that’s been blocked thus far by the EU, despite it being a socialist policy: the EU-enforced First Railway Directive creates a barrier to nationalising the railways in order to increase competition. And as undemocratic as our own House of Lords might be, there’s no denying that the European Union is even worse.

Of course, this is a view point that’s been mostly silent. the mainstream media have been inclined to mostly sell the right wing edition of Brexit, despite the fact that a huge amount of Labour supporters cast a Leave vote yesterday. Jeremy Corbyn himself has previously expressed Euro-scepticism, and it wouldn’t be the first time he was more in line with Labour voters than the Parliamentary Labour Party are. We’re now seeing that Corbyn might be paying for this defeat, but it’s arguable that the vote would have been no different had a more central figuring been leading the party.

If we are to achieve the prospect of a socialist UK, we must first be aware of it. If we were to achieve a socialist UK, it would be hugely against the Establishment. The Establishment – namely the government and mainstream media – don’t want that to happen, so they haven’t made people aware of it. But it is feasible.

We still don’t have total democracy.

But give it chance. With the extreme ends of the political spectrum leading us out of the European Union, it might just transpire that Britain is a little more left wing than everyone previously thought.

Obviously, this is not something that will happen under a Tory government, but a snap election is needed for more than just this reason. People voted for either a left or right wing Brexit and those who have hopes for the former, of which their are many, should not be forced to bear the deal a right wing government would strike, a deal they did not vote for. We must let the best Prime Minister decide this, and that isn’t an unelected Boris Johnson or Michael Gove.

We are not the nation we were a year ago, and we want the chance to choose the government who handles this negotiation. Of course, if Labour – and specifically, Corbyn – had openly supported Brexit, we would be in a better state for them to win, but you might just find that the nation is more loony-left than you suspected.

Nationalisation, democracy, fair wages.

Does this sound scarily socialist to you? Good. It should.