Guardian adds another feather to its Brexit balance

Very welcome stuff in the Guardian today. OK there was all the usual stuff where EU press releases are quoted as news (latest threats to stop UK citizens moving to other EU countries freely unless we reciprocate -- at the moment the proposal is to vet residence each time?).

But also more coverage for Larry Elliott and his critique of the EU!

Why the moaning? If anything can halt capitalism’s fat cats, it’s Brexit 

The boy dun well, arguing that the EU only looked progressive in the past because it might  have helped restrain Mrs Thatcher ( I don't know that it did), but that once we had the euro project it was all austerity, deflation, exploitatuve globalization and neo-lib stuff.

[Labour are] exploring the freedom Brexit would provide for public ownership, lower rates of VAT to help those on the lowest incomes, state aid to support sunrise industries, and fair trade agreements with developing countries.
Remainers on the left would argue that there is no need to leave the EU for this to happen, but they are wrong about that for two reasons. The first is that a radical socialist programme that included a different approach to state aid, state ownership, public procurement and managed trade would be deemed illegal under European law. The second is that without Brexit, the impetus for change would quickly dissipate.

OK, you have to search for this article on the website, and most of it is dominated by the claim that the Cabinet has now accepted a transition period for leaving to reassure 'business'which would preserve free movement for 6 years (this had to be amended after M Gove said the Cabinet had agreed to be 'pragmatic' about a transition period without details).

But it is another feather  to balance the elephant