[Michael Tom West]

SPGB's position : Neither be part of a European imperialist bloc nor become an offshore centre for usury capital under the umbrella of US imperialism and to expose this with an "active boycott" and the party's other writings re the EU Ref is certainly crystal clear and stands out as making what the rest of the left –  be they INners or OUTters – write as tortuous for the reader to make out in the extreme. As one who's been mentally flip-flopping  (not quite the right word that, but what Hilary Clinton does anyway!) between all three options ( all four if I include not bothering to go down the road to the Polling Station on June 23rd) in the following manner ( my left lobe's brain's thoughts are on the left below t'other on the right huh for once not political designations !) :-concern for peace and stability : so on the whole stay IN versus DITTO so OUT and NATO next stop! Both I admit liable to elicit from my comrade a you're-living-in-cloud-cuckoo-land response! What bugs me is that a spoiled vote – unless it were massively replicated – is not going to make a differance to the voting outcome. Or at best it will help to have an outcome which will be a little less 49 percent versus 51 percent either way. And that politics – whether bourgeois or working-class – is about getting your hands dirty, there is no such thing as political virtuosity/virginity. 

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