Corbyn wants Brexit to happen he’ll whip Labour into passing it.
YouGov poll on labour voters would suggest caution on Mr Corbyn's part.
I voted remain mainly because I could not see how UK could dis-engage from local markets and just-in-time processes without significant turbulence. Corbyn gave EU 6.5/10 marks, I personally would score around 5.5/10 or 6/10 mainly because of the treatment of Greece.
Basically, like on Slackware when you misconfigure something, 'stormy weather ahead'
'Moral Hazard' is something I have reservations about.
He should have the self awareness that trying that could result in Labour collapsing like the LibDems did.
He’s been a Euroskeptic since the 70’s he sees the EU as a neoliberal capitalistic endeavor which stands against everything he stands for.
Over the past 2 years now he showed no opposition to Brexit which goes against the wishes of his party members and their constituents and against the ideals of being an opposition party.
I really don’t see him changing his tune now as he showed he is incapable of letting his own ideals take the backseat to the will of the party.
A trait that has garnered him many followers.
Corbyn wants socialism, he want to nationalize the industries he wants to get rid of the neoliberal keynesian economics which the EU and every other social democracy in Europe promotes and follows he doesn’t want to be in the EU he was against the U.K. joining the EU in the first place and he didn’t do anything to prevent it from leaving.
Why? It hasn't been agreed at conference.
There's a party for Remainers that want to ignore the referendum result they're called the Liberal Democrats or the SNP if you are up in Scotland.
If Corbyn wants to run his own personal personality cult he should go form another party.
I'm pro-Remain but I think Corbyn has been misrepresented by our media and colleagues so much that he's not going to do well no matter what. Christ, he was criticised for wearing a coat in typical British weather laying a wreath at the cenotaph.
That said, there is a section of the Labour party that has formed a dangerous echo chamber. I was routinely attacked by "friends" after saying Assad is an oppressive dictator. I was called names like "white supremacist imperialist" and, almost as bad, a Blairite. I left the party because it's a festering whole of negativity, anger and irrationality. I have misgivings about those people influencing policy, which it would invariably would via conference if Labour attained power.
The fact that Labour MPs had to rebel against their leader to support things like the 2nd referendum or a people’s vote on the deal does not bode well for what they are supposed to stand for.
I'm a remainer. I think the party should back remain and Corbyn is mistaken for not backing a second vote. But after the past behaviour of these rebellious MPs, I don't believe they're any better.
The other issue is that the majority of Labour votes come from leave areas. That's the other part of the 52% problem. We can placate the members at the potential loss of our core voters.
Officially the were supposed to support remain, their members support remain, their MPs support remain, their voters support remain and all overwhelmingly.
Corbyn is a Eurosceptic and that's the problem the are supposed to oppose the Tories and Brexit but Corbyn does whatever he can other than gleefully dancing in the street in support of finally leaving.
He didn't support his party in opposition leading to the referendum, in fact he went MIA during the critical weeks and days leading to it, he turns down the option for a 2nd referendum which the majority of his party supports and turns down the option for a people's vote on the final deal.
He did absolutely nothing as the leader of the opposition to bring forth legislation that would support the retraction of Article 50, a soft-Brexit with the possibility of rejoining the EU or anything that actually opposes the shit show that has been going on for the past 2 years.
The only thing he did it marginalize his party in the eyes of many Labour voters.
>The other issue is that the majority of Labour votes come from leave areas. That's the other part of the 52% problem. We can placate the members at the potential loss of our core voters.
The majority of labour voters want to remain, this was always the case now it's even more as over 1.4M labour voters that voted leave in the election now want to remain.
The crazy socialists that want the UK to leave the EU in order to get rid of the EU competitive laws so they could nationalize everything and finally have their venezuela are not the core of the Labour party they never were and hopefully never will be because that would be a dark day for the UK.
In the Brexit referendum 65% of Labour voters voted remain, 68% of LDs vote to remain, LD wasn't any more pro-remain than the Labour, both of them are now at around 80% support for remain.
So either the Labour isn’t for socialists or they are hiding it to be palletable to their wide voting base.
The average Labour voter wants Denmark not Venezuela they want a better social democracy not breadlines and shooting people in the street.
There is a lot said about Jeremy Corbyn and I've noticed that a lot of the mainstream media (even left-wing like the Guardian) are very against him and have been vocal about everything he stands for, which I find interesting. This article,
https://www.politico.eu/article/jeremy-corbyn-brexit-referen...
from 2016 says that he thought at that time we should stay in EU and this does align with what I remember of that time. He was widely quoted as saying that although EU needs to change, we should stick with it and help change it from within.