Bernie Sanders opposed open borders for immigration
https://braveneweurope.com/bernie-sander-open-borders-thats-a-koch-brothers-proposal
The ever supportive Brave New Europe website highlighted this 3 minute clip from an interview with Bernie Sanders where he made the same point made in Progressive Protectionism that open borders are a bosses’ charter, in this case giving the Koch brothers as an example.
https://www.socialeurope.eu/seeing-off-extreme-right-populism-with-progressive-protectionism
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The first step to an effective response by progressives to the rising tide of right-wing populism in Italy and elsewhere is to realise that ever more open borders are the problem. It was predominantly opposition to inadequately controlled immigration Continue reading
Reverse EU free movement AND Brexit: Guardian Letter, Brave New Europe, brilliant Deborah Orr piece
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/nov/14/free-movement-of-people-raises-real-concerns
Free movement of people raises real concerns
Letters
Wednesday 15 November 2017
What those who want to remain in a reformed EU that lessens people’s insecurity must grasp is that Brexit voters don’t want an apology, they want policies to deal with their desire for managed migration. What is still inadequately understood is that the one Continue reading
Green Party Report Calls for Progressive Protectionism
Green MEP Molly Scott Cato this week launched a report by Victor Anderson and Rupert Read entitled ‘Brexit and Trade Moving from Globalisation to Self-reliance’
Its Executive Summary states that: This report puts onto the political agenda an option for Brexit which goes with the grain of widespread worries about globalisation, and argues for greater local, regional, and national self-sufficiency, reducing international trade and boosting import substitution.
The importance of this document is in its title since as far as I am aware it is the first time a report from a politician isn’t clamouring to retain membership of the open border Single Market. Instead it details the need for an environmentally sustainable future Continue reading