Reply #13: Ah, my fault, I'm tending to concentrate on the constitution [View All]

[muriel_volestrangler]

in European discussion these past few days. Since many (on the left, anyway) who oppose the constitution also talk about social and labour rights (but in a rather fuzzy way) as being their objection to the constitution, I leapt to the conclusion that you were making an anti-constitution argument - and I always try to get a more specific reasoning from such people.

Your position is fair enough - I wouldn't call Kettle neoconservative (I think he's always been against the Iraq invasion, for instance), but he does look more favourably on globalization - as, I'm afraid, I do. I think we should be able to get some international agreements on environmental issues (Bush and his regime are the biggest obstacle to this - I'm half tempted to say 'globalize except for the US', who we should boycott until they get rid of the neocons), and that, with those in place, fair international trade will be good for developing countries, and neutral for us in the developed world (our economies may stop growing, but they have to for the environment's sake anyway; and we can't expect to get cheap imports from developing countries forever).