London PBP Policies European Union
The EU is primarily a union of big businesses with the aim of making it easier to exploit working people across Europe. It has imposed privatisation and cuts in public spending, and is not properly accountable.
In its current form it shows no respect for democracy - ignoring various referendum results and pressurising weak leaders to hold a second (or third) vote until they get the result they want.
Treaties now being negotiated will enshrine the right of transnational companies to run public services and give them rights in international law to sue for lost future profits if a future national government takes back control of any service, such as water, railways, education.
People Before Profit is committed to policies which are in conflict with rules currently imposed by Europe.
PBP would welcome a union of all working people across Europe and recognises that people in the UK have benefitted from some of what has resulted from membership of the EU, such as human rights and employment legislation, though in reality countries such as Switzerland and Norway, outside the EU, have perfectly adequate employment protection because their own workers have campaigned on these issues.