Reply To: More on Brexit
Well, ALB, I did acknowledge Monbiot’s tendency to exaggerate but when I see Ratcliffe of Ineos, (a capitalist I have detested since he attacked the unions in Grangemouth many years ago when he was just the richest man in Scotland and not the whole of the UK), promoting Brexit while simultaneously protesting about the enforced limits on fracking, I can’t but help that think his positions are linked.
Is he an isolated example, a maverick? Is the Chemistry Growth Partnership just a sector lobbyist group. Is the Chemical Industry Association known as the CIA 😈 just a sector lobbyist group?
Is it all a conspiracy? Are others involved?
“The more you speak and join in, the less likely it is that the result of any consultation will be shaped by vested interests who have either the money, or the connections, or the power to imprint their agenda on the public,” said Mr Gove.
“Vested interests” normally don’t advertise their existence and collaboration. Ratcliffe just happens to have the arrogance to be open about his personal partisan policies.
But you are right, i doubt there can be an actual conspiracy – the only thing the capitalist class join together and cooperate in is screwing workers, otherwise its dog versus dog for the bone.