The Labour Party and Brexit
The elephant in the room isn’t the handful of Labour-supporting Leave voters in Sunderland (it’s always Sunderland).
Rather, it’s the bloody open secret that Jeremy Corbyn himself, is a staunch opponent of the European Union. So, too, are those in his innermost circle.
Corbyn’s history of opposition to the EU is well documented (even in that older article), and those to whom I’ve spoken that served in parliament with him during his days on the back benches confirm this.
And he’s not going to change.
The plan that he and the leadership team has is that Brexit happens without any undue electoral consequences, then they can get on with the business of winning a general election and installing a socialist paradise.
They fooled the electorate in 2017, and the overwhelming majority of Labour’s support in that election was remainers, hoping for, at worst, some sort of softer Brexit.
Membership of the party is even more strongly remain.
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If Labour want to win a general election, they need to come out unambiguously in favor of a second referendum and support remaining in the European Union.
However, the evidence strongly suggests that the leader of the Labour Party simply will not take this step.
He’s a classic Lexiter, the folly of which I wrote about here three years ago.
This is a position he shares with his Communist pals over at the Morning Star, who believe that “fanatical Remainers” like myself are part of a larger plot against Jeremy Corbyn (because, well, everything is a conspiracy against Jeremy Corbyn)[.]
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