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Star Comment: EU – vote No from the left

A WAVE of apathy will sweep across Britain tomorrow, as no more than one in three electors go to the polls to vote in the European Parliament election.

This is understandable and almost commendable. 

Most people sense that the itinerant “parliament” is a charade, the pseudo-democratic gloss on a European Union that is fundamentally anti-democratic and anti-working class.

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