Peston wrote:But even if a few Labour eurosceptics were to rebel against Corbyn, May will struggle to win.
I don't get this bit. Surely you'd need lots of Labour MPs to vote against the government to defeat them? Or is he saying that the majority of Tory MPs will???
I think he is saying that he expects Corbyn to now support a customs union and will therefore be instructing his MPs to vote against May. May will then struggle to win even if some Labour MPs vote against Corbyn’s decision.
Peston wrote:But even if a few Labour eurosceptics were to rebel against Corbyn, May will struggle to win.
I don't get this bit. Surely you'd need lots of Labour MPs to vote against the government to defeat them? Or is he saying that the majority of Tory MPs will???
I think he is saying that he expects Corbyn to now support a customs union and will therefore be instructing his MPs to vote against May. May will then struggle to win even if some Labour MPs vote against Corbyn’s decision.
Chuffin Hell. Corbyn's still pushing magical unicorns
The Labour leader told the GMB conference in Britain that Labour wants a customs union with the EU after Brexit that would allow the UK to strike its own trade deals.
This repeats what Corbyn said in his speech in February announcing Labour’s support for staying in a customs union long term, but it is contentious because many would argue that the two goals are incompatible.
Corbyn also restated his opposition to the so-called Norway option.
Hexx wrote:Chuffin Hell. Corbyn's still pushing magical unicorns
The Labour leader told the GMB conference in Britain that Labour wants a customs union with the EU after Brexit that would allow the UK to strike its own trade deals.
This repeats what Corbyn said in his speech in February announcing Labour’s support for staying in a customs union long term, but it is contentious because many would argue that the two goals are incompatible.
Corbyn also restated his opposition to the so-called Norway option.
No the problem is that Corbyn is thick as muck, and will have read some Anti-EU pamphlet in the his adolescence that quickly became his entrenched viewpoint.
If they are going to say that we need to stay in a new version of the single market again then it’s all just pie in the sky. If they are suggesting that we stay in the single market as it currently is then that’s a new direction for them.
Called it. They’ll abstain, wave through Brexit and then witter it’d be great if only their version of cake was achieved.
Yep definitely going to be the case. There plans for an ‘internal market’ are just carefully worded hopes and dreams that will never come to reality as labour wont actually get to negotiate with the EU anyway. They’ve written it in a way that some people will just think labour want to stay in the single market and it will get them support when I reality they just want to negotiate a new deal just like the tories claim they want to. Neither deal will be acceptable to the EU.
Called it. They’ll abstain, wave through Brexit and then witter it’d be great if only their version of cake was achieved.
Yep.
After Brexit there are going to be so many factions around claiming that everything would have been wonderful if their plan had been followed.
The Corbyn side of Labour will be blaming the Tories and telling us how "a" customs union would have been fine under them.
The Johnson/Gove side of the Conservatives will be blaming May and telling us how it would have all been fine if it was up to them.
The Rees-Mogg side of the Conservatives will be pretending it is still 1877.
Farage types will be calling it "a great betrayal" and blame everyone in sight for not being tough enough to go for no deal. Oh and it will be Remainers and immigrants that undermined everything.
