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TimeSnowDemos

(476 posts)
7. If you're a huge Corbyn supprter
Tue Jun 12, 2018, 06:55 AM
Jun 2018

you know he has spent months praising Brexit, and generating his own set of fairytale outcomes.

I LIVE in Ireland, and lived for years in the UK... my daughter was born in London. I'm a dual citizen of Ireland and the US.

Corbyn is pro-CU with the EU, but that strips the UK of a seat at the table and a voice in making EU policy. It also stops the UK from striking trade deals.

So, all the anti-EU propaganda: That the EU was an unaccountable bureaucracy, that the EU stopped the UK from making better trade deals, that the EU stopped the UK from controlling it's borders... That's EXACTLY what Corbyn is agitating for.

And he's selling it as a POSITIVE.

That's delusional. Or dishonest. Or both.

I like some of what Corbyn says, but he's neither representing the will of his party - the majority of which are anti-Brexit - the will of the country - the majority of which are now anti-Brexit - or even a better option than what the UK currently has.

It's a disastrous position only made tenable by Labour's vast incompetence and in fact by the exact thing I was referencing in my original post: the opposition is living in a fact free bubble.

The justice minister just resigned Soph0571 Jun 2018 #1
Minister quits - 'the horses are circling the paddock' Exotica Jun 2018 #3
Message auto-removed Name removed Jun 2018 #21
The 3 ..in this picture w/Trump have now confessed to colluding w/ Russia to rig the #Brexit vote riversedge Jun 2018 #2
'Winning an election isn't about facts': Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore face MPs' questions - live Exotica Jun 2018 #5
thanks. for post. riversedge Jun 2018 #12
"If you don't like my structure, ... change the law!" Denzil_DC Jun 2018 #20
Over the cliff TimeSnowDemos Jun 2018 #4
'including the opposition' Exotica Jun 2018 #6
If you're a huge Corbyn supprter TimeSnowDemos Jun 2018 #7
The Norway/EEA model is a non-starter as it is more or less leaving us in the EU without having any Exotica Jun 2018 #8
By advocating an option you describe as: TimeSnowDemos Jun 2018 #9
If you think that an EEA style relationship will fly in the Britain Exotica Jun 2018 #10
It won't TimeSnowDemos Jun 2018 #11
*Britain would be subject to regulation without representation' Exotica Jun 2018 #13
Lot's of bubble here TimeSnowDemos Jun 2018 #14
I still think (you will call it bubble thinking) that we can somehow Exotica Jun 2018 #15
Bubble thinking TimeSnowDemos Jun 2018 #16
There is no conceivable "bespoke" deal on EU trade that doesn't involve freedom of movement. Denzil_DC Jun 2018 #19
I campaigned for Remain T_i_B Jun 2018 #17
Same here LeftishBrit Jun 2018 #18
It just failed (sigh) LeftishBrit Jun 2018 #22
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