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Democrats: learn a lesson from the British
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Democrats: learn a lesson from the British
Quote:Who is Jeremy Corbyn and how did he send such a shockwave through global politics? Millions of people around the world are asking that question as British election results appeared to show stunning gains for the Labour Party less than a year after the Brexit vote. I tried to find some answers by calling up community organizer Arnie Graf, who worked for Saul Alinsky's political apparatus and was an early mentor to Barack Obama. More recently, Graf was hired as a special adviser to the UK Labour Party during the post-Tony Blair years when it found itself in the political wilderness. During his time working for the party, Graf said that Labour — like the U.S. Democratic Party — had become alienated from the working class.

In a podcast interview, Graf contextualized the Corbyn surprise, and discussed what it may mean for the future of global politics in this populist moment. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of our discussion.



http://www.alternet.org/what-can-democra...-elections
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RE: Democrats: learn a lesson from the British
Will the UK still leave the EU, or will Labor's gains derail the process until the next referendum?
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RE: Democrats: learn a lesson from the British
Sounds as if the EU is ready to kick them out.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/09/world...it-eu.html


Quote:Without question, Britain is not ready for the negotiating table, having spent the past year largely avoiding a real debate on the topic, other than a vague argument over the merits of a “hard Brexit” (as a clean break from the European Union is known), versus a “soft Brexit,” which would require more compromise. Brussels, by contrast, has a negotiating team led by a former European commissioner, Michel Barnier, and it has published detailed negotiating guidelines, agreed upon by the bloc’s 27 other member states. While Britain seems more divided, the European Union appears to have achieved an unusual unity.

And the “Brexit” clock is ticking. On Friday morning, the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, warned that London faced a firm deadline to complete talks and that any delay raised the risk of failing to reach a deal.

“We don’t know when Brexit talks start. We know when they must end,” Mr. Tusk wrote on Twitter. “Do your best to avoid a ‘no deal’ as result of ‘no negotiations.’”
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