View Poll Results: 10 days left, what'll it be?

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  • Hard Brexit (crash out)

    45 48.91%
  • No Brexit (Remain by revoking A50)

    24 26.09%
  • Withdrawal Agreement (after a new session is called)

    0 0%
  • Extension + Withdrawal Agreement

    3 3.26%
  • Extension + Crashout

    9 9.78%
  • Extension + Remain

    11 11.96%
  1. #16561
    Quote Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl View Post
    the fact is that Corbyn and Labour have managed to tread that line of saying absolutely nothing with meaning and getting away with it until now.
    Fixed that for you Labour at this point deserve the response they will get in the EU elections.

    Quote Originally Posted by Kronik85 View Post
    New politics indeed.
    Depends if you think the Lib Dem's have a future in UK politics, I guess - for that to happen people need to start getting over the coalition government and tuition fees.

    Sad but true
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  2. #16562
    Quote Originally Posted by Dizzeeyooo View Post
    Sad but true
    Yep. At the moment, 2nd ref is not in a particularly happy place.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dizzeeyooo View Post
    Fixed that for you Labour at this point deserve the response they will get in the EU elections.


    Depends if you think the Lib Dem's have a future in UK politics, I guess - for that to happen people need to start getting over the coalition government and tuition fees.


    Sad but true
    Labour have been more than consistent with their message over decades.

    Here's Tony in 1983.



    And here's Labour again before the referendum in 2016



    And now how many times has Corbyn got to hint at it? Remainers have the option of voting Greens or Lib Dems. How they doing in election polls btw, any good? Perhaps people still just want to leave? Everyone all set for the Peterborough by election that we find out if it's happening tomorrow? I hear our Nigel might be fielding a candidate for his first Brexit party MP if it does...
    13/11/2022 Sir Keir Starmer. "Brexit is safe in my hands, Let me be really clear about Brexit. There is no case for going back into the EU and no case for going into the single market or customs union. Freedom of movement is over"

  4. #16564
    Quote Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl View Post
    I've been saying this for some time. I don't like all the political games, but the fact is that Corbyn and Labour have managed to tread that line of somehow keeping all of their supporters satisfied WAY better than the Tories have. And if you look at what's happening to the Tories, you can see what could have happened to Labour (and indeed still could) if they get it wrong.

    It's a dangerous and narrow line to walk, but they've managed it so far.
    And it has achieved nothing for the nation, too. So it's a pretty good policy, as far as British politics go, innit?
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    interesting times ahead in next week; will they just "agree to disagree" or what will come around ?

    source

    "Theresa May has set a one-week deadline for cross-party Brexit talks to make progress or be brought “towards a conclusion”, with a crunch meeting likely to be scheduled with key players early next week.
    Downing Street believes the middle of next week is the deadline by which the negotiations must show progress, if they are to have a hope of passing the withdrawal agreement and implementation bill (WAB), in time to prevent the European elections.

  6. #16566
    Quote Originally Posted by dribbles View Post
    And now how many times has Corbyn got to hint at it?
    For once, we agree with each other.

    Quote Originally Posted by ranzino View Post
    interesting times ahead in next week; will they just "agree to disagree" or what will come around ?
    With that pathetic EU election manifesto, Corbyn has established his position as "If May amends her deal (in a currently unspecified way that is acceptable to me) Labour will back her deal", so there's every chance that next week will see him lining up with May to try and deliver a Tory Brexit, over the wishes of his voters/MPs/MEPs.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dizzeeyooo View Post
    ....


    With that pathetic EU election manifesto, Corbyn has established his position as "If May amends her deal (in a currently unspecified way that is acceptable to me) Labour will back her deal", so there's every chance that next week will see him lining up with May to try and deliver a Tory Brexit, over the wishes of his voters/MPs/MEPs.
    for sure he could try, but will enough MPs fall in line or gladly revolt against their glorious leader ?

  8. #16568
    Quote Originally Posted by LeGin Tufnel View Post
    No, I said they had nothing to offer in the EP election.

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    He's not suggesting that the EP election is anything other than a single issue election is he?

    Fuck me, really?

    Please explain why anyone would possibly vote for Labour in the forthcoming EP elections other than out of partisanship and tribalism.
    To represent workers interest in Europe.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LeGin Tufnel View Post

    No doubt burner will be back to tell me he doesn't actually want my vote.
    I am not actually the Labour party. I'm not even a member.

    Vote how you wish. However, if you expect any prospect of a more centrist Labour party in the future then you need to understand the left of the party is not very likely to go along with it, as it did in the Blair years, against a historical backdrop of backstabbing and desertion by the middle class when things didn't go their way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dizzeeyooo View Post

    With that pathetic EU election manifesto
    Once again, Jeremy Corbyn is the leader of the Labour Party. The Labour party is meant to represent the interests of labour. Not your hostility to Brexit.

    Corbyn's views accurately represent the view of workers on this issue, whether you or I like it or not.

    If you do not support the interests of workers, and place a higher priority on a binary anti-brexit position, then you should support another party, as you seem to be doing. However, you shouldn't express any surprise that the Labour party does not reflect your personal views.

    I just mention this because people like you seem to have enormous difficulty understanding what the point of Labour is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ranzino View Post
    for sure he could try, but will enough MPs fall in line or gladly revolt against their glorious leader ?
    They've been bitching, pissing and moaning about him for years, what would you call a "revolt"?

  9. #16569
    Quote Originally Posted by cathwath View Post
    To represent workers interest in Europe.
    That would be the first labour oriented party in Europe actually doing something for workers in the past 50 years, I reckon. But you keep on believing...
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  10. #16570
    Quote Originally Posted by cathwath View Post
    Once again, Jeremy Corbyn is the leader of the Labour Party. The Labour party is meant to represent the interests of labour. Not your hostility to Brexit.

    Corbyn's views accurately represent the view of workers on this issue, whether you or I like it or not.
    Still waiting for you to explain how Labour helping to deliver a right wing Tory wet dream project is in the interests of workers.
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  11. #16571
    Quote Originally Posted by cathwath View Post
    To represent workers interest in Europe.
    See @Dizzeeyooo's response above.

    The UK is, in theory, leaving the EU by the 31/10/19 at the latest.

    More likely, the UK will leave before May's self-imposed 30/06/19 deadline. I'm guessing as a result of MV4 passing with Labour support.

    This election is not about what Labour MEPs can accomplish in Europe as part of S&D for workers' rights. You are either deluding yourself or you are being entirely disingenuous.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cathwath View Post
    If you do not support the interests of workers, and place a higher priority on a binary anti-brexit position, then you should support another party, as you seem to be doing. However, you shouldn't express any surprise that the Labour party does not reflect your personal views.
    And if you support the rights and interests of workers, and believe that these will be harmed significantly by leaving the EU, opening the way to US-style "at-will" employment contracts and the expansion of zero-hour contracts to formerly salaried positions, the sale of the NHS to private companies at a devalued cost which will lead to higher costs for those seeking healthcare (like they did with the Royal Mail a few years ago and the train network 20-odd years ago) and the sacrifice of the social security safety net to reduce corporation tax and a lowered tax-bill for the rich? Who should you vote for then?

  13. #16573
    Quote Originally Posted by Butler to Baby Sloths View Post
    And if you support the rights and interests of workers, and believe that these will be harmed significantly by leaving the EU, opening the way to US-style "at-will" employment contracts and the expansion of zero-hour contracts to formerly salaried positions, the sale of the NHS to private companies at a devalued cost which will lead to higher costs for those seeking healthcare (like they did with the Royal Mail a few years ago and the train network 20-odd years ago) and the sacrifice of the social security safety net to reduce corporation tax and a lowered tax-bill for the rich? Who should you vote for then?
    How does leaving automatically opens way to US-style working conditions?

    Don't you need to have appropriate legislation passed first?

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    Quote Originally Posted by cathwath View Post

    They've been bitching, pissing and moaning about him for years, what would you call a "revolt"?
    as MPs they can vote his deal with May down. it is also a speculation even Labour support cannot offset the nays by Conservatives, so it would still fail.

  15. #16575
    Quote Originally Posted by LeGin Tufnel View Post
    See @Dizzeeyooo's response above.

    The UK is, in theory, leaving the EU by the 31/10/19 at the latest.

    More likely, the UK will leave before May's self-imposed 30/06/19 deadline. I'm guessing as a result of MV4 passing with Labour support.

    This election is not about what Labour MEPs can accomplish in Europe as part of S&D for workers' rights. You are either deluding yourself or you are being entirely disingenuous.
    I doubt Lab will support May's deal.

    There are suggestions that May will offer a customs union by another name but this is unlikely to sit well the Tory party.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Butler to Baby Sloths View Post
    And if you support the rights and interests of workers, and believe that these will be harmed significantly by leaving the EU, opening the way to US-style "at-will" employment contracts and the expansion of zero-hour contracts to formerly salaried positions, the sale of the NHS to private companies at a devalued cost which will lead to higher costs for those seeking healthcare (like they did with the Royal Mail a few years ago and the train network 20-odd years ago) and the sacrifice of the social security safety net to reduce corporation tax and a lowered tax-bill for the rich? Who should you vote for then?
    If you believe all that then vote https://www.omrlp.com/
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shalcker View Post
    How does leaving automatically opens way to US-style working conditions?

    Don't you need to have appropriate legislation passed first?
    Give it time, there's a reason that Trump and his cronies are pro-brexit. (and it's not just to weaken the EU)

  17. #16577
    Quote Originally Posted by Dizzeeyooo View Post
    Still waiting for you to explain how Labour helping to deliver a right wing Tory wet dream project is in the interests of workers.
    If Labour wanted that then it would have supported May's deal in the first place.

    The interests of workers are not helped by Brexit, but nor is the status quo which is pricing many vulnerable unskilled workers out of the market and that's the part you people never seem to acknowledge. The EU is fundamentally a neo-liberal reactionary organization that needs substantial reform to stop exploiting its people and work in their collective interest.

    For this reason, while most socialists are ultimately pro-european, it is with very deep scepticism and ambivalence they approach the eu project.

    Is this really that difficult to understand? Socialists like some things about the EU and not others. Do you not understand there are very legitimate criticisms of the EU?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Butler to Baby Sloths View Post
    And if you support the rights and interests of workers, and believe that these will be harmed significantly by leaving the EU, opening the way to US-style "at-will" employment contracts and the expansion of zero-hour contracts to formerly salaried positions, the sale of the NHS to private companies at a devalued cost which will lead to higher costs for those seeking healthcare (like they did with the Royal Mail a few years ago and the train network 20-odd years ago) and the sacrifice of the social security safety net to reduce corporation tax and a lowered tax-bill for the rich? Who should you vote for then?
    Your post is unintentionally comic. Those things are happening already without Brexit, and the reason many people voted for Brexit in the first place in sheer frustration.

    I'd add that they wouldn't be happening if the Blairites had got behind Corbyn during the last general election instead of trying to stab him in the back every step of the way. That certainly cost the party a general election win.

    Ultimately the majority view on the left is pro-eu and opposed to a no-deal or any kind of market-based brexit. It is however not simply a blank cheque for the EU as it currently stands.
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  18. #16578
    I am shocked by this news!

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla...itics-48094266

    A UKIP candidate being a little bit racist... I never saw that one coming!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pann View Post
    If you believe all that then vote https://www.omrlp.com/
    Most of what he suggested is pretty much guaranteed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pann View Post
    I am shocked by this news!

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla...itics-48094266

    A UKIP candidate being a little bit racist... I never saw that one coming!
    Well in the whole "Nazi dog." video he was singing about gassing jews. The real reason he was in trouble, not some dog thing that people like to say is the reason. Which is why I wasn't shocked when he joined UKIP with Sargon


    Phil talking about Labour position with the vote, how Corbyn has fucked it up and basically it seems he's given up with Labour but will still vote for them mostly down to fptp and loyalty. (FPTP is not mentioned but in the end he's mentioned FPTP in other videos.)


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