I was at an event at the LSE last night on whether Britain should leave the EU - on all sides, this seems to me to be a faith based issue - nobody really has any idea, but they believe who they trust. But what strikes me is that anyone who is anti-EU seems to be automatically labelled as right wing. Strange, when it was originally the left in the UK who were against the project. Actually, one questioner at the end did sort of raise this point, and called for a socialist Europe. This was treated with much audible mirth by almost every member of the audience and panel, which worried me a bit, because people now, of all mainstream political stripes in the UK, have become so brainwashed that the very mention of socialism is considered to be a joke. Even if you are anti socialism, and i must admit that I don't have much time for the sort of purely emotive polemical branch of socialism that you often find in public health communities, it's got to be a concern that the very word, socialism, provokes universal mirth. And at the LSE, as well. The founders will be spinning now.
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