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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_L
by 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 agoEspecially 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 agoAnother rewrite of history. He backed Remain.
- bojan 4y agoVery reluctantly, and probably against his own better judgment, at least that was the impression he created.
- raverbashing 4y agoI 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 agoDid he? Any support he gave was so tepid, I barely noticed.
- digianarchist 4y agoHe made more media appearances than Alan Johnson who was running Labour’s Remain campaign.
- chrisbaker98 4y agoCorbyn 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.