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Globalist agenda behind UK staying in EU: Analyst

Thursday, 23 June 2016 6:16 AM [ Last Update: Thursday, 23 June 2016 6:16 AM ]

The Union Jack and European Union flags fly outside City Hall in central London on the eve of the EU referendum on 22 June 2016. (AFP photo)

Press TV has conducted an interview with Mike Harris, finance editor of Veterans Today in Los Angeles, and Shahrar Ali, deputy leader of UK Green Party in London, to discuss the UK's referendum on whether to stay in or leave the European Union (EU).

Harris believes there is a “globalist agenda” behind staying in the EU which does not benefit the indigenous people of UK.

“The bankers want the EU to stay intact, the multi-national corporations want the EU to stay intact because that is easier for them they have a framework. That is what the globalists are trying to do, is to impose a global framework on all business and all transactions and all banking around the world,” he says.

The analyst further mentions the EU has not “met up its promises to its constituents”.

He goes on to say some of the EU countries - namely Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Ireland – are suffering financially and enduring very “severe austerity” for pensioners and the like.

Harris advocates for leaving the EU, saying when a sovereign people gives up a level of that sovereignty, it is only the first step.

However, Ali believes the balance of judgment is that it is much better to be in collaboration and partnership with neighbors in the European Union, adding it overall contributes to stability.

The activist also thinks the UK should stay to have influence and to project into the future a “better mechanism” for democracy within the European Union.

“There is climate change, there are cross border considerations that require collaboration, that do not require greater insularity and it is for those reasons ultimately I hope and believe that people will want to stay in the European Union because we have a collective self-interest from staying in, we also have to think about future generations long into the future whose interests are far better served by thinking collectively than by withdrawing,” he argues.

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