26-02-2018, 22:30
(26-02-2018, 22:05)St Charles Owl Wrote: Non of the political parties would be able to satisfy all of their traditional voters. The referendum was not fought on party lines to start with but Labour's official stance was to remain so those Labour voters who voted to leave were going against the party to start with, why should they expect the party to now back them?
There is no political party who are campaigning on a platform of reversing the result across the whole of the UK, the Tories are cracking on with getting us out, Labour are undecided what they really want and are sitting on the fence hoping that when the Tories screw it up they can win an election by default and the Lib Dems aren't worth voting for in any election. If Labour wants to succeed on their own merits then they need to decide what side of the fence they are on and if they came out with a pledge to not allow Brexit to happen then its fair to say a lot of remain voters would vote for them on this topic alone. Just not sure Corbyn has the balls or the party support to do that though, so we will see another election where he is unelectable and the Tories will once again win!!
Yes you are correct Labour's stance during the referendum was remain and they wanted their members and voters to vote remain during the referendum but 2/3 of the North which are Labour heartlands voted to Leave the EU and in the general election last year Labour said in their manifesto that they would respect the vote and that if they won the election then they would go through with the will of the British people and take Britain out of the EU. Since Labour lost the election in 2017 they have sat on the fence and there direction seemed to change from week to week until today when Corbyn announced that under Labour we would stay in the Customs Union but for some people such as voters, members and even MPs its not good enough as the Labour voters who voted Leave were under the impression that we would exit the EU altogether and the Labour members, voters and I would say majority of the MPs in the PLP want Britain to remain in the EU or at least the single market.
Labour are split just like the Tories are. Wouldn't surprise me if the next election is hung or the Tories win with a small majority.
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