Paul Mason is right on this - centrists who want a Macron style remain party should set one up.
I would love to see Corbyn come out and say that to his young supporters.
Paul Mason is right on this - centrists who want a Macron style remain party should set one up.
If "the youth" came out en masse for Corbyn how do we square that with the fact that young people overwhelmingly voted Remain?
Centrists who want a Macron style remain party should set one up.
I'd assume many of them simply are not on good terms with consistency and logics. Others may know that corbyn is all but staunch Remainer, but rated other bits of his policies higher than that issue. And some might have just come to the conclusion that Brexit will go on and happen, regardless.
in the LP manifesto
Off top of my head - 63% of Lab voters and 90% of Labour members voted Remain. It's hardly a marginal position in the party, or for Labour voters, the rights or wrongs of Chukka's actions nonwithstanding. If "the youth" came out en masse for Corbyn how do we square that with the fact that young people overwhelmingly voted Remain? And lest we forgot leaving the single market was not on the ballot paper. If we are going to go Brexit, why go with the most destructive interpretation of it?
I can't see how we can have a huge increase in public spending while at the same time blowing up the foundational pillars of our economy.
The fact that a low rent nazi is cheering him on surely should give his supporters pause.
You had that already with New "Labour"
And yet, all the polls I've seen suggest that the majority of the country doesn't want another referendum.
And the parties opposing Brexit completely tanked in the election.
I'm not saying any of this is right or wrong but you can see the logic...
a 2nd referendum
People don't want yet another divisive political campaign, for sure. Even the election seemed to greeted with another weary shrug. This is not the same as endorsing the course we appear to be on though.
Oh I agree. I think people are going to grin and bear it for now though.
As the Brexit deal progresses and the reality sinks in things will get more messy.
That's correct and it's something the author of the article Danny posted earlier discusses. Appealing to the pro-Brexit, working class vote makes a definite tactical sense, and it's thanks to Corbnyn's force of personality (or if you like, media image) that he's been able to do this, but it's going to be increasingly hard to maintain the compromise between "red UKIP" and pro-remain students and professionals as reality approaches.