Dear All
If you could think of the worse possible scenario to hinder
the Labour Party’s attempt at winning the next General Election, you would be
right if you said back the UK
staying in the EU. Jeremy Corbyn has been under pressure to change Labour's
position on Brexit and it seems the right wing of the Labour Party is getting
its way. At the same time; the right wing of the Labour Party have also gave
themselves a massive boost in their attempts at killing off Jeremy Corbyn’s
leadership.
Although this has been dressed up as a 'Significant step
forward', what it actually is without a doubt is a 'Significant step backwards'.
When I was a kid, I thought politicians were super smart,
mainly because they seem to come from university backgrounds, but I have
realised, they aren’t smart as they appear, and they don’t have all the answers,
quite the opposite it seems. The demise of the ability of the political class
is getting well known with a sceptical public. SNP MSP Alex Neil has mentioned today
this issue as he lamented that the lack of independent thinkers, people
selected because they are in effect like better than drones, or as Neil terms
its ‘robots’, this is now causing a major problem.
A problem which goes right across all parties to various
degrees!
For the Labour Party to jump on the bandwagon of ‘Brexit Betrayal’
is astonishing in my opinion, given that this stance is going to divide the
party and effectively rip the guts out of it. Jeremy Corbyn has been a Euro
Skeptic all his days. Now is wiling to go down the road of making the Labour
Party a party of ‘remain’ and campaigning for a second referendum.
As people are aware in politics, the momentum crowd are busy
trying to get certain Labour MPs de-selected to be replaced by their members,
but it could be those who get de-selected that get the ‘last laugh’ come a General
election. From a Scottish view point, this change doesn’t help the Labour Party
win seats, earlier, the Scottish leader Richard Leonard already made his
position clear of his direction of travel.
Some Labour supporters of a second EU referendum have hailed
this as a "significant and very welcome step forward" after Jeremy
Corbyn called on the government to stage a public vote on any Brexit deal, and
confirmed his party would campaign to Remain.
I don’t, this folly is worse than Nick Clegg and his disastrous
betrayal over tuition fees, and we all saw what the upshot of that decision had
on the fortunes of the Lib Dems. Because of lack of progress on Brexit, the Lib
Dems managed to find a way back but this is solely due to their Brexit stance
as a ‘remain’ party.
One of the things which won’t happen is that following a
meeting of the shadow cabinet at Westminster , Jeremy
Corbyn said that whoever wins the Conservative leadership contest should have
the confidence to put any new deal they negotiate with Brussels or no-deal to the public.
This is never going to be a serious option.
The Labour Party was wrong to support remain in 2016, the
Labour Party was wrong to break its promise to honour the vote, the Labour
Party was wrong to position themselves as a ‘remain’ party, the Labour Party is
wrong to want a second referendum.
I think the classic line, #you couldn’t make this shit up’
is more than perfect for what has happened, this tactic now strengthens whoever
becomes the next Conservative leader which is increasingly looking like Boris
Johnson. Brexit-backing Labour MP John Mann agrees with me saying the move will
lead to the loss of Leave-voting voters and be a gift to the Tory leadership
front-runner.
Mann said;
"The one person who will be smiling at today's
announcement is Boris Johnson. I think it gives him quite a boost when he wins
the Tory leadership. And I think it makes it slightly more likely that he'll be
tempted to call a Brexit election."
Just to be clear, whoever wins the leadership contest in the
Conservative Party, they won’t be calling an early General Election for
Westminster[ neither Johnson or Hunt are that silly. Either candidate will in
my opinion run down the clock because both of them know that they will need to
present a proven product to the electorate of success. As well as that they
need to build their personal ‘brand’ and publish their version of Global UK in
the post Brexit world.
Anti Corbyn Labour MP Ian Murray said:
“This is a significant and very welcome step forward. It’s
taken a huge effort to get to this point, and I pay tribute to party members
who have helped secure this policy position. A confirmatory vote with a
campaign to remain in the EU is now official Labour Party policy, in line with
the Scottish Labour Party. We must now get out there and tell voters that the
only way to stop Brexit and remain in the EU permanently is to vote Labour.”
George Laird, member of Pollok CLP said:
“What a betrayal of the working class which will come back
on the party in both at Holyrood and Westminster ”.
Finally, give that the Labour Party needs to win back Brexit
voting Northern England and of course Scotland
to form a majority government for Westminster ,
do you think the betting odds just got better or worse for Jeremy Corbyn?
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
1 comment:
lie@bour are finished, it's a pity because Corbyn looked genuine at first. It's turned out, he's just another Blairite scumbag.
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