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Re: Labour Party Leader, Under Pressure, Backs a New Brexit Referendum

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
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New leaders would be good.

The trouble with new referenda when the first one was meant to be definitive is that in that case, they are pointless. If people give the "wrong" answer, just do it again.

The problem we are having is mostly about Mrs May being a Remainer and not really understanding why Brexiters wish to leave.

She assumes folks only wanted to slightly change the relationship with the EU. There's hardly a constituency for her position.

She had the chance to sell people on the opportunities the UK would have in leaving. And she didn't have the imagination or skill to take it.

I'd swallow the short term economic effects of no deal, in order to recover the benefits of being a free, sovereign democracy.

She had the chance to sell people on the opportunities the UK would have in leaving.

One problem which I do understand: this is that both parties have Brexiters and Remainers amongst them. The EU faultline is different from the normal political one. So a party leader doesn't want to lose their supporters.




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Labour Party Leader, Under Pressure, Backs a New Brexit Referendum
By: clo
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Mon, 25 Feb 19 9:38 PM
Msg. 28935 of 54959

What's your take Cactus Flower?
Seems no one in power has the spine or stomach for this?

The British opposition Labour Party said it would support a new Brexit referendum, offering new hope to opponents of withdrawal from the E.U.
Monday, February 25, 2019 1:56 PM EST

After the resignations of nine Labour Party members last week, and amid the prospect of more, the party’s leader, Jeremy Corbyn, dropped his longstanding resistance to a second vote on leaving the bloc.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/world/europe/Jeremy-Corbyn-brexit-referendum.html


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