The Guardian backs Bremain
UK daily paper surprises noone as they urge readers to vote to stay in the EU
- "Keep connected and inclusive, not angry and isolated," it says
The Guardian has come out in support of a Remain vote in Thursday's historic referendum on whether Britain should leave the European Union or stay within the powerful bloc of nations.
The UK's 4th biggest online and print publication has nailed its colours to the mast with just two days to go before Britons make one of the biggest political decisions of their lives.
The headline reads: "keep connected and inclusive, not angry and isolated."
The centre-left paper highlights issues of economics, foreign policy and identity in order to encourage its readers that Britain is stronger inside the EU than out.
"keep connected and inclusive, not angry and isolated."
"All reason tells us that the great issues of our time have little respect for national borders. The leave side has attempted to turn “expert” into a term of abuse, but one does not need the IMF, the Bank of England or any special knowledge to grasp that these border-busting issues range from corporate power, migration and tax evasion to weapons proliferation, epidemics and climate change."
The Guardian claims that these are huge issues which need to be dealth with at a level higher than that pof the nation state.
"Impose controls on a multinational corporation and it will move to a softer jurisdiction. Crack down on tax evasion and the evaders will vanish offshore. Cap your own carbon emissions in isolation and some other country will burn with abandon."
"In so far as any of these problems can be effectively addressed, it is through cooperation. A better world means working across borders, not sheltering behind them."
"The leave side has attempted to turn 'expert' into a term of abuse"
It also recognised however that there are many fundamental problems with the European bloc and how it operates, and these would most certainly have to be addressed in the weeks and months following the referendum, whichever way it goes.
"Even if the UK government itself actually bears far more of the responsibility, it must be admitted that the EU is part of an international economic order that has been unkind to many. The wish to kick against it can thus be understood, even though it is mistaken."