Would a last ditch gamble, days before election, be enough to split Tory vote and deliver europhile seats in SE England ?
He could cite battlebus lies as reason not to abide by the referendum result.
460 pages too many?
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I'm not sure it would. There are a fair few Labour voters that also wanted Brexit, so he may lose those votes. I'm also not sure how many liberal conservative voters woudl move to Labour just on that promise. I think the LibDems would have more chance of picking up that segment.
No mate.
There's policy on the hoof, then there's man plummeting to certain death formulates policy nanoseconds before impact.
It would have no credibility.
Corbyn will say anything for short-term political gain, but reversing his passive-aggressive position on Europe would be a big stretch.
What about another referendum on the final choice.. Hard brexit or no brexit
Corbyn wanted Brexit.
[s]Corbyn[/s]Politians will say anything for short-term political gain
Corbyn will say anything for short-term political gain
That is the complete opposite of anything I have seen from him.
Brexit is not party aligned so you need to disassociate it as much as possible so linking a definitive statement to it would be madness.
I get that he's
but this whole snap election was called to "strengthen" May's hand for Europe, so it would be a pretty good way of kicking over her sand castle surelypassive-aggressive
It's irrelevant. He won't win. And if he does, Theresa May will invoke martial law on Friday and assume absolute power, ruling by decree.
From day one it could have been. You can't reverse into it a week before polling day - it would look infantile [no offense meant - credible opposition to brexit is desperately needed, but we just don't have any in parliament].but this whole snap election was called to "strengthen" May's hand for Europe, so it would be a pretty good way of kicking over her sand castle surely
You can see the tumbleweed when Farron even suggests staying in the single market, let alone rolling back Brexit. Feels like people are resigned to their fate and failing to "respect the result of the referendum" would be a vote loser, not a vote winner at this point, sadly.
Corbyn would just look foolish.
He wanted to leave and was an outspoken critic of the EU for many years.
Corbyn will say anything for short-term political gain
He's one of the few politicians who hasn't changed his tune in years.
No.
All the 25 most strongly leave and the 25 most strongly remain constituencies in the country are currently Labour-held.
There's no simple Brexit position that corbyn could take that wouldn't lose him votes, Labour is just way too split on this.
Corbyn will say anything for short-term political gain, but reversing his passive-aggressive position on Europe would be a big stretch.
Disagree completely. From what I have seen he has moved very little from his original stance and defends his views.
Which is the polar opposite of the Tories, and most political parties of past and present come to that.
No, not now.
I did wonder if it would go that way, most politicians would at least consider a clear differentiator between them and their closest rival and fight on that front, but he chose not too, perhaps on principle, perhaps because research said it wouldn’t help.
You have to remember with JC that he is a proper Socialist promoting workers rights, not a Leftie as such. Old Labour, not New. Socialists in the past (consider Dennis Skinner) have been very Anti-EU, since we’ve joined the UK has become wealthier, that is true, but at a great cost – being part of a larger state has allowed us to massively expand our financial industry at the expense of our manufacturing industry because we haven’t needed to maintain a trade deficit with the rest of the EU and this has mean whilst we’re richer as a whole, the gap between rich and poor is wider than ever and we have a huge areas of unemployment and under employment.
When he was campaigning for us to remain he was quiet, and his major issue was protecting human and workers rights, if he can do that outside of the EU he will. Joining the EU after all was a Tory policy and it was maintained by a New Labour government, new Labour is a socially aware capitalist movement, not a socialist one per-se.
If another one of the candidates for the Labour Leadership had won it is far more likely that they would have fought for “the 48%” because polls have shown again and again that once the promises the leave campaign made were shown to be false, almost seconds after the result came in and then all the key players skulked away and the markets started to fall the 48% soon became 56%.
We might hear some more Pro-EU talk post the election, if UKIP are utterly destroyed as is expected then the major parties won’t have to worry about it until 2022 and I don’t think that UKIP have the enough finance backers to see them that far and fight another election.
samunkim - Member
Would a last ditch gamble, days before election, be enough to split Tory vote and deliver europhile seats in SE England ?He could cite battlebus lies as reason not to abide by the referendum result.
Labour can win if Corbyn says or agrees there will be independent Scotland and United Ireland under Labour govt. 😛
