{"id":292120,"date":"2017-01-28T07:58:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T06:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-reality-of-prime-minister-mays-pledge-to-make-britain-fairer\/"},"modified":"2017-01-28T07:58:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T06:58:00","slug":"the-reality-of-prime-minister-mays-pledge-to-make-britain-fairer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-reality-of-prime-minister-mays-pledge-to-make-britain-fairer\/","title":{"rendered":"The reality of Prime Minister May\u2019s pledge to make Britain \u201cfairer\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"page\">\n<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>The reality of Prime Minister May\u2019s pledge to make Britain \u201cfairer\u201d<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Robert Stevens<br \/>\n    <br \/>28 January 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>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\u2019 living standards.<\/p>\n<p>Outlining the government\u2019s plans for Brexit last week, she said, \u201cWe will take this opportunity to make Britain stronger, to make Britain fairer, and to build a more Global Britain too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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, \u201cWe must never forget that our first responsibility as governments it to serve the people.\u201d Post-Brexit Britain would be \u201ca country that works for everyone&#8230; a Shared Society, one that doesn\u2019t just value our individual rights but focuses rather more on the responsibilities we have to one another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cfairer Britain\u201d was to visit US President Donald Trump, whose concept of \u201cfairness\u201d 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 \u201cthe American worker first,\u201d he will build a wall along the southern border of the United States and deport millions of Mexican immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>May echoed Trump when she made clear that her own plan to put \u201cBritish workers first\u201d was based on a clampdown on migration from Europe. Her efforts&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/01\/28\/brit-j28.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The reality of Prime Minister May\u2019s pledge to make Britain \u201cfairer\u201d 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\u2019 living standards. Outlining the government\u2019s plans for Brexit last week, she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-292120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}