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In reply to the discussion: Reassessing Corbynism: success, contradictions and a difficult path ahead [View all]T_i_B
(14,737 posts)9. There is some pretty good stuff in Labour's platform...
...but their EU policy means that they are effectively promising a cruise ship when all they really have is a rubber dinghy.
The issue of leaving the EU affects everything else, and almost always for the worst.
Good OP by the way. Labour have benefited from the Tories cocking up their election campaign, but a lot of the underlying problems remain.
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Denzil_DC
Jun 2017
OP
Is there any possible honorable way for Labour to go full-on anti-Brexit at this point?
Ken Burch
Jun 2017
#3
What was done to Greece is what will be done to ANY left government under the EU.
Ken Burch
Jun 2017
#7
You mentioned the Attlee example simply because you don't have any answer at all
Denzil_DC
Jun 2017
#8
I'm not "rabid anti-EU". I support them on the parts of what they do that are progressive.
Ken Burch
Jun 2017
#25
I'm fine with what Corbyn's doing there. I've never been rabidly anti-EU and you know it.
Ken Burch
Jun 2017
#28
First of all, I do agree that the Remain campaign was very poor; that if it had been better we might
LeftishBrit
Jun 2017
#29
"I think your feelings about Corbyn are driven by he apparent Labour-Tory cooperation in Scotland."
Denzil_DC
Jun 2017
#30
OK, I withdraw the word "apparent"...I use that word to mean "essentially proved"
Ken Burch
Jun 2017
#32
Well, if he stopped telling blatant lies about the SNP's record in government when he comes up here
Denzil_DC
Jun 2017
#33
While I do not defend the EU's treatment of Greece, it was not mainly an ideological assault
LeftishBrit
Jun 2017
#23
You seem not to have noticed that Denmark now has a right-wing, anti-immigrant government
Ken Burch
Jun 2017
#26
'The EU didn't exist when Labour created the post-war social welfare state'
LeftishBrit
Jun 2017
#24