tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post5097363182274897822..comments2024-03-27T09:14:27.496+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: Brexit: Lexit or Rexit?Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-16929566074231448152019-12-03T12:25:10.786+00:002019-12-03T12:25:10.786+00:00Blissex, what gives the Leave voter coalition such...Blissex, what gives the Leave voter coalition such cohesion, given that it seems to contain subgroups with diametrically-opposed interests?<br /><br />For example, you mention how a "headquarterization" delusion animates a lot of the upper-middle-class Brexiteers, but didn't a lot of working-class people in left-behind towns vote Leave in part as a protest <i>against</i> headquarterization, against a system which forced their offspring to move to London (or at least to a big metropolitan area) if they wanted something better than low-paid insecure work?<br /><br />And while Empire may have had some impact on wealthy Brexiteers (insofar as a lot of them live off wealth inherited from imperialist ancestors, and therefore for them personally the Empire never really fell), I doubt that this had any influence on working-class Leave voters either...George Cartyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12170378024031141482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-7328121679658465792019-11-24T18:03:42.552+00:002019-11-24T18:03:42.552+00:00How about noxitHow about noxitJimbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17882323280846712158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-28243490484022300632019-11-24T13:33:56.121+00:002019-11-24T13:33:56.121+00:00«supply ‘business, technology and financial servic...«supply ‘business, technology and financial services to emerging markets such as China and India', become 'financial manager of the world' (Paul Mason, 'Britain's Impossible Futures', Le Monde Diplomatique, February 2019).»<br /><br />That is what I call the "headquarterization" delusion, that England (or rather southern England or rather the M25 area) can be the headquarters of the world, with all the good high value headquarters jobs (research, accounting, marketing, ...) while the gullible simpletons of China and India get all the low paid factory jobs, and send the big profits to headquarters in London, just it happened first in the English Empire, and then within the UK itself.<br /><br />That is not going to happen: the chinese and indians are not gullible simpletons, and they have already Shanghai and Mumbai, sophisticated headquarters cities with business, technology and financial services as advanced as any in the M25 area<br /><br />«an attempt to recreate the era when London was banker to the world»<br /><br />Rather banker to the English Empire, because London there had a "home" advantage enforced by the gunboats and the redjackets. Headquarters cities need to be at the centre of an empire they rule in order to build a mass of captive markets and guaranteed profits with which they can out-compete those without.<br /><br />The reality which is well known to B Johnson and the other elite exiters is that the M25 area does not have any "business, technology and financial" advantage over Shanghai or Mumbai, but it can rent for a fee the shield of "sovereignty" to shady spivs across the world to hide their dirtier businesses, much as Switzerland, Singapore, Bermuda, Dubai already do. Unfortunately that type of businesses cannot generate enough income to support a country the size of England, and thus the medium term plan is to dump the south-east overboard, as the north etc. was 30-40 years ago, and concentrate all the opportunities for leasing of "sovereignty" in the M25 area.<br /><br />And that's why the maniacal insistence of exiters on "sovereignty" not being pooled and on "never surrender to the ECJ".Blissexnoreply@blogger.com