Dan. wrote:Corbyn ran with the message "the EU isn't ideal, it needs change, but we're better placed to make those changed from within than without", which was the view of the majority of the electorate. Now that we're looking at the realistic possibility of a GE, why Labour see Corbyn as a liability and not an asset baffles me. To do a Lib Dem and say you'll run on a Remain platform is utterly ridiculous - democracy does not mean re-running the election until you get the result you want and for the Lib Dems to say they'll try and keep the UK in the EU means they're standing on a platform of intentionally misrepresenting 52% of the electorate. Madness. I hate IDS but he's right in a way - the next PM should be someone who understands the argument for Leaving. Corbyn is the the best Labour option.
This.
As a lifelong Eurosceptic, Jezza is probably someone best placed to make the most of a post EU Britain, rather than a Tory party who will use it as an attempt to carve up the country. Finally the freedom to renationalise without breaching EU law, save steel, especially now buyers are fleeing in their droves post Brexit.
If the majority of Labour MPs are insistent on disregarding the voice of party members, they need to give up their seats, and strawberry float off to other parties.
This is the time for Labour to make a full return to the left, rather than continue to flirt around with the centre right in some attempt at populism that leaves an entirely empty space on the left of the political spectrum.