Regarding defence:
The conclusion is inescapable: now is the time for the UK to reinforce, not wreck Europe’s security relationships, both through the European pillar of Nato and through cooperation with the EU. That means developing its own military capabilities as the US pulls back, as well as exploring a UK role in potential decision-making bodies such as a European security council.
Regarding the economy:
Labour should be open to renegotiating all barriers to cooperation – including integration with the single market in a Swiss-style deal.
Thoughts?
The bolsheviks also came about out a time when Russian workers were highly homogenized. There was no ‘foreign other’ for the elites to point the finger at to distract the masses.
Nowadays, the UK workforce is diverse enough that much of the working class who already had some latent xenophobia bubbling below the surface, can now have it weaponised by fascist parties. The people joining Your party and the Greens, aren’t working class. They’re maybe lower-lower middle class city folk, but not the labourers of the country