I've heard it said that those at the top of society and those at the bottom have always understood each other; it’s those annoying people in the middle who don’t understand either who are the problem. Boris Johnson will play on this myth to win him the next election. He will claim to be fighting a culture war on behalf of ordinary folk against the irritating chattering classes and Brexit will be at the centre of it. The polls are on his side: one recent poll showed 72 percent

Co-founders of The Full Brexit are pleased to be part of a new grassroots campaign supporting Brexit and the subsequent transformation of British society. It is called "Leave - Fight - Transform: The LeFT Campaign", and launched today with a letter and accompanying article in The Morning Star. (The Remain and Reform astroturf campaign, "Another Europe is Possible", launched in The Guardian, of course.) Below is LeFT's founding statement and how you can get involved, by signin

“Lexit is dead. Democracy is alive.” So declared former big pharma spokesman and failed Labour leadership contender Owen Smith MP at the end of his Guardian column last week. Scions of the Labour Right, like David Miliband, gleefully tweeted Smith’s piece, cheering the death of the “unyielding job-cutting, standard-shredding, equality-reducing, regulation-shaving race to the bottom” Brexit. But, in reality, the article was intellectually vapid. This is hardly surprising. Owen

A response to criticisms of our recent London event from some on the left, and an invitation to further debate The Full Brexit co-organised the Transforming Britain After Brexit tour because we wanted to open up a space for discussion, within and beyond the Left, over Brexit and the nature of the European Union. In March we held events in Coventry, Manchester, Liverpool, and London, with an event in Durham to come next month and hopefully more dates in cities across the UK af

The Full Brexit contributor Professor Danny Nicol has written an interesting piece in a debate over his project on "Judicial Power and the Left". He takes issue with a critic's call for the left to "embrace a more legal, and more international, constitutionalism…to achieve lasting social change", pointing out that this approach has actually entrenched "a permanently neoliberal, privatised economy in which workers’ bargaining power is minimal". This is in tune with Professor M

The Full Brexit's Lee Jones has appeared alongside Dr Lisa Mckenzie on the Renegade Inc. programme, "Grandparents of Brexit", which aired on RT yesterday. The show took a deep dive into the roots of the Leave vote, discussing the disconnect between working-class voters and the political establishment. #left #workingclass #representation #brexit #leave #neoliberalism