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> Instead it requires Labour to be a very broad house This is a severe disconnection from reality, the Labour party is totally ideologically possessed. 52% of

> Instead it requires Labour to be a very broad house This is a severe disconnection from reality, the Labour party is totally ideologically possessed. 52% of the population voted for Brexit and not a single Labour MP supports it. Not a single Labour MP would ever dream of criticising the NHS system. Not a single Labour MP said a bad word about BLM. The Conservative party are so broad they have everything except actual conservatives.

digianarchist 4y ago
This is complete nonsense. Quite a few Labour MPs supported Leave [0]. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Leave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Leave
- raverbashing 4y ago
  Especially Corbyn, though of course he couldn't "support it" outright because that would mean agreeing with Tories (and he couldn't oppose it outright without angering a lot of Labour members)
  - digianarchist 4y ago
    Another rewrite of history. He backed Remain.
    - bojan 4y ago
      Very reluctantly, and probably against his own better judgment, at least that was the impression he created.
    - raverbashing 4y ago
      I agree, pre-referendum he backed Remain, but after that his position was not so firm https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-corbyns-changing-brexit-stance https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-corbyns-ch... https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/22/jeremy-corbyn-labour-neutral-second-brexit-vote https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/22/jeremy-corb...
    - hermitcrab 4y ago
      Did he? Any support he gave was so tepid, I barely noticed.
      - digianarchist 4y ago
        He made more media appearances than Alan Johnson who was running Labour’s Remain campaign.
    - chrisbaker98 4y ago
      Corbyn is a lifelong Eurosceptic who voted against every expansion of EU power that came before him in his entire ~30 year career as an MP pre-2016. He only "opposed" Brexit in 2016 because he had to.
ben_w 4y ago
Electorate has moved on since Brexit has actually happened, even if the number who would vote differently given what they know today is much smaller than you might expect given how few think it was done well. Labour's highest poll result this year was 57%, which is kinda nuts even given who was PM at that point — 20 Oct, Omnisis: https://www.omnisis.co.uk/media/1133/vi-005-full-tabs-20102022.xlsx https://www.omnisis.co.uk/media/1133/vi-005-full-tabs-201020...

digianarchist 4y ago

This is complete nonsense. Quite a few Labour MPs supported Leave [0]. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Leave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Leave

raverbashing 4y ago
Especially Corbyn, though of course he couldn't "support it" outright because that would mean agreeing with Tories (and he couldn't oppose it outright without angering a lot of Labour members)
- digianarchist 4y ago
  Another rewrite of history. He backed Remain.
  - bojan 4y ago
    Very reluctantly, and probably against his own better judgment, at least that was the impression he created.
  - raverbashing 4y ago
    I agree, pre-referendum he backed Remain, but after that his position was not so firm https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-corbyns-changing-brexit-stance https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-corbyns-ch... https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/22/jeremy-corbyn-labour-neutral-second-brexit-vote https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/22/jeremy-corb...
  - hermitcrab 4y ago
    Did he? Any support he gave was so tepid, I barely noticed.
    - digianarchist 4y ago
      He made more media appearances than Alan Johnson who was running Labour’s Remain campaign.
  - chrisbaker98 4y ago
    Corbyn is a lifelong Eurosceptic who voted against every expansion of EU power that came before him in his entire ~30 year career as an MP pre-2016. He only "opposed" Brexit in 2016 because he had to.

ben_w 4y ago

Electorate has moved on since Brexit has actually happened, even if the number who would vote differently given what they know today is much smaller than you might expect given how few think it was done well. Labour's highest poll result this year was 57%, which is kinda nuts even given who was PM at that point — 20 Oct, Omnisis: https://www.omnisis.co.uk/media/1133/vi-005-full-tabs-20102022.xlsx https://www.omnisis.co.uk/media/1133/vi-005-full-tabs-201020...