Still no deal in Brexit talks as working class faces disaster
The bitter political conflict over Britain’s exit from the European Union (EU) continues.
Amid a deadly catastrophe unparalleled in Europe since the end of the Second World War, the UK and the EU governments are locked in an intractable struggle for economic and political advantage.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson signed the Withdrawal Agreement for the UK to leave the EU on January 31st. [Credit: U.K. Prime Minister]
By law, Britain leaves the EU on January 1. If no post-Brexit trade deal is in place, the UK will begin trading on World Trade Organisation terms involving tariffs and quotas.
Stop the UK’s winter of death! For emergency action to save lives!
The coronavirus pandemic in the UK is being allowed to run out of control. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government is pursuing a murderous policy which poses an imminent risk to tens of thousands of lives. It does so with the politically criminal collusion of the Labour Party and the trade unions.
Over 66,000 people have already been killed by COVID-19 in the UK, according to official figures. A more accurate total is the close to 80,000 fatalities recorded this year with COVID-19 mentioned on the death certificate. The driving of workers back into workplaces and students back into schools, colleges and universities has produced a catastrophe. Roughly 25,000 have died of COVID-19 since the first national lockdown was fully ended in May-July, again according to the government’s headline figure. The UK’s death rate per million people is 963, higher than the United States.