If Labour is now led by a genuine Socialist, as I believe it might be, they are caught between a rock and a hard place
The E.U. is a collection of capitalist states seeking to make the best of a failing system and that is what they are being asked to support
I very much doubt if I would have voted remain in my more passionate youth - why should I have ever supported an association of states based on a system defending wealth, power, privilege and greed which I find abhorrent ?
I believe supporting stay to be a short term measure - a way to steer the death of a system so that too many people don't suffer
Lets face it, the EU isn't going to do anything to lighten the load on its subjects
As things stand at the moment THIS IS THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE ON THE TABLE
Jim Carroll