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Greece’s populist sands are shifting
With the weakening of Alexis Tspiras’ far-left and far-right coalition, the next election will be a pivotal one, writes Thimios Tzallas As Westminster does its best to tear itself apart, the Greek parliament has been playing out its own internal drama – between two very strange bedfellows.
TIME FOR ACTION: Labour should lead the campaign for Europe
Progress is calling on Labour to back a public vote on Brexit and commit to leading the pro-EU campaign. Help the campaign by writing to your Labour MP and tell them you want a progressive, pro-European party This is a historic defeat for the government – one of the largest ever suffered by a governing party in parliament. It is an embarrassment for the Conservatives. The level of opposition to Theresa May’s Brexit withdrawal agreement is extraordinary.
Why May's Brexit is doomed: nothing has changed - Progress
Theresa May’s deal is dead in the water, and the blame for that lies solely with her, writes Peter Kyle If the prime minister is to be believed, the backstop arrangement to prevent a hard border in Northern Ireland is the overriding concern members of parliament have with her proposed deal. It is the reason she gave for pulling the vote in the House of Commons, and it has been the overwhelming focus of her talks with the European Union negotiators.
The hostile environment is alive and well
Sajid Javid’s claim that the hostile environment is over has been exposed as bogus – and Brexit is about to make it worse, writes Luna Williams Last March, the new home secretary Sajid Javid made a promise to dispel the ‘hostile environment’ policy which had gripped the United Kingdom and its laws since 2009. ‘It’s a compliant environment,’ he told parliament, a few hours after he had started his new position in the Home Office, ‘I don’t like the phrase “hostile”.
EXTRA: Has anything changed?
Conor and Alison are joined by Phil Wilson MP to discuss the lack of a withdrawal agreement, Theresa May’s precarious leadership and why being a north east MP doesn’t mean being pro-Brexit. *Sign up for the Labour Say Whatsapp group at laboursay.eu/whatsapp *Why now could still be the right time to force a no confidence vote Progressive centre-ground Labour politics does not come for free. It takes time, commitment and money to build a fight against the forces of conservatism.
How to police social media companies
Technology giants such as Facebook should be dealt with a much firmer hand by government, writes Sam Bright Social media is often called the ‘wild west’: a vast wasteland with few laws or regulations, home to bandits and outlaws. As Carl Miller points out in his new book, more crime now happens online than offline, yet politicians are only starting to contemplate the idea of policing the internet. Many online crimes are either facilitated, or directly perpetrated, by social media companies.
Brexit means higher food prices
The hard Brexiteers’ desired approach to our negotiations with the EU reveal them to be as ignorant as they are reckless, writes Andy Tarrant Priti Patel has asked why the trading dependence of Ireland on the United Kingdom revealed in leaked UK government papers, particularly in relation to trade in food, is not being used to force Ireland to drop its demand for the backstop. This demand is illuminating as to the mindset of the Brexiteers.
How working with community groups can be a model for local success
Combining with engaged local citizens can bring more people into the political process, as well as help us to achieve progress at times of austerity, writes Adam Hurst Opportunity and fairness should be at the heart of Labour’s programme. The achievement of this is dependent on greater equality and the current government’s policies are particularly damaging for low income households.
Success for Seni
This is originally from the Progress Daily Email. If you like what you see and would like to sign up to receive it, click here. ‘Seni’s law’, the legislation championed by Steve Reed to prevent the use of force against mental health patients, successfully travelled through the House of Lords yesterday. At Progress, we have been proud to support the campaign.
Progress needs to be relevant if the centre-left is going to win again. This is how we do it
This article is part of a series of articles written by candidates for the Progress strategy board elections. The publishing of this article is not an endorsement of the candidate. You can read Tom Mauchline’s candidate statement here Tom Mauchline sets out where he thinks the centre-left is going wrong, how it can be set right – and what role Progress has to play Why Progress matters The centre-left has had a difficult few years.
Britain's unprecedented approach to negotiating an international trade deal - Progress
Senior cabinet minister appear to consider British services exports a reasonable sacrifice for the price of achieving Brexit, writes Andy Tarrant The prime minister claims that it is the national interest that drives her Brexit negotiating position. A considered analysis suggests instead that the true impetus is balancing the internal politics of her coalition government. This has structured the sub-optimal economic choices embodied in the Chequers agreement.
Brexit and the UK’s Services Trade
But does Britain’s membership of the EU constrain its services exports with the rest of world, as many Brexiteers contend? As the obstacles to trade in services are regulatory rather than tariff based, it is hard to see how this could be the case. By ensuring minimum standards, the EU has facilitated trade in services, not hampered it. Eurosceptics routinely ignore this.
Report: Labour’s Programme and EU Law
It has been routinely asserted that Labour’s 2017 election programme is incompatible with ‘neoliberal’ European law. Here, two senior European competition lawyers take issue with this assessment. They offer a comprehensive legal analysis of the 2017 manifesto, grounded in a historical and politicaleconomic argument that European rules are not hostile to nationalisation, and seek instead to promote the ‘social market’ economy favoured by German and Scandinavian social democrats.
Embracing a serious analysis: a response to Nicol
Andy Tarrant and Andrea Biondi 10th October 2017 Read Tarrant and Biondi’s original article and report here and Professor Danny Nicol’s response here. We enjoyed reading Professor Nicol’s polemic. We note that he does not disagree with our legal analysis that the specific proposals in Labour’s 2017 manifesto are compatible with EU state aid or other rules. His criticism of EU rules, and by extension our article, is that they prevent a further move towards socialism.
EU law is no barrier to Labour’s economic programme
Andy Tarrant and Andrea Biondi 22 September 2017 With Labour pursuing a more radical economic policy than it has done for many years, many voices on the left have argued that change on the scale demanded by the 2017 party manifesto would be incompatible with EU law. If this were true, it would pose a major problem for the party’s new stance of supporting continued membership of the European single market and customs union for a transitional period of up to four years.
Policy Network - Publications
Advocates for Brexit have suggested a range of alternative options for the UK instead of EU membership. This report rigorously examines four of the most widely canvassed alternatives: the Norwegian option, the Swiss option, relying on WTO trading rules alone, and a special preferential UK deal.
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