The reality of Prime Minister May’s pledge to make Britain “fairer”
By
Robert Stevens
28 January 2017
Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May claims that the June 23, 2016 referendum vote to leave the European Union will be the basis for raising British workers’ living standards.
Outlining the government’s plans for Brexit last week, she said, “We will take this opportunity to make Britain stronger, to make Britain fairer, and to build a more Global Britain too.”
Speaking earlier this month at the World Economic Forum, the annual gathering of billionaires in Davos, Switzerland, she told the assembled financial speculators and political representatives of the capitalist class, “We must never forget that our first responsibility as governments it to serve the people.” Post-Brexit Britain would be “a country that works for everyone… a Shared Society, one that doesn’t just value our individual rights but focuses rather more on the responsibilities we have to one another.”
Those in attendance all knew May was lying through her teeth. The first act of international diplomacy performed by May in her quest for a “fairer Britain” was to visit US President Donald Trump, whose concept of “fairness” involves the appointment of a cabinet of billionaires and generals to preside over policies of trade war and militarism abroad and an assault on social services at home. Among his first major policy announcements was the confirmation that, in the name of putting “the American worker first,” he will build a wall along the southern border of the United States and deport millions of Mexican immigrants.
May echoed Trump when she made clear that her own plan to put “British workers first” was based on a clampdown on migration from Europe. Her efforts…