"Abusive to who Jim?"
To the right-wing Zionists who are now busy carrying out ethnic cleansing in Israel - "antisemitism" is denigrating the Jewish People
Whatever his faults, he can in no way be accused of doing that
It is not all things "bright and beautiful in the EU."
Nobody suggested it was Iains - on the contrary - the programme I referred to concentrated on what was happening in Europe
Brexit opened the doors to the rise of fascism by proving that a racist ticket was a sure-fire way of gaining support for divisive scapegoating policies.
Before the result, Austria gave the extreme right the boot - bow the fascists are gaining support everywhere
Pointing to Europe only underlines my point
Lat's be clear about the E.U. - all it is is a co-operative body of Capitalist States - nothing more
The only reason it has my support is that it is a stopgap measure to prevent a failing system from falling apart in such a manner as to make life even more unbearable for the various populations than they are already
For me, what happened in Greece is proof positive that it is in no way a panacea for all long-term ills.
There is also the added factor that member states are less likely to go to war with each other than are individual ones.
Short termism will have to do until a fair system comes along
Jim Carroll