Comments on: Labour needs to pick a side on Brexit

By: Blissex

Blissex — Tue, 07 May 2019 20:40:57 +0000

«It is no secret that Jeremy Corbyn is a lifelong Eurosceptic. Like his good friend and socialist the late Tony Benn, he has spent a great deal of his political life laying into the European Union.»

That’s the usual malevolent fantasy part of whig/LibDem propaganda against Corbyn and Labour, and it is the more ridiculous not just because J Corbyn has campaigned vigorously for “Remain” (despite being ignored by the media), having voted “Remain”, and having stated even after june 2016 that he would vote “Remain” again, but because his long standing (since the 1990s) pro-EU opinion caused Tony Benn some disappointment:

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n08/david-runciman/short-cuts
«One of the causes that Benn consistently believed should trump the siren call of high office was Europe. Here he sometimes found himself out of step with his comrades on the left, including Corbyn. In 1992 he was passionately committed to a referendum on the Maastricht Treaty, on the grounds that Parliament was abrogating the sovereignty of the people. Not only was the entire Labour shadow cabinet under John Smith opposed to such a view, so too was a group that included Corbyn, Dennis Skinner and Bernie Grant. ‘It disoriented me a bit,’ Benn writes, ‘because you don’t like to go against your own people.’ Still, Benn felt he had no choice but to press on, and was shot down in flames at a meeting of the PLP.»

Why is “LeftFootForward” being used as a platform for whig/LibDem propaganda?

By: Dave Roberts

Dave Roberts — Tue, 07 May 2019 17:42:39 +0000

Alison.
Could you run that past us again this time in English? Many thanks.

By: Alison

Alison — Tue, 07 May 2019 16:21:33 +0000

Can only guess that the article author missed JC’s hard work (as praised by Angela Eagle) before, during and after the referendum campaign. I’d like to blame the MSM lack of reporting for that but people do have to take personal responsibility & check their facts.
As for picking a side? In what way? Always good to have a go without providing a positive solution isn’t it?
That aside – Barnsley eh?!?

By: Dave Roberts

Dave Roberts — Tue, 07 May 2019 09:38:12 +0000

A good article which sums up very well the situation that Labour finds itself in. Corbyn has spent his entire political life demonizing the EU and urging a withdrawal. His mass support in the party and country is the mirror image wanting to remain. The other conundrum that he and Labour face is that while much of the membership want to remain in the EU it would also want to withdraw from NATO which he wants as well.