Seanm
pfm Member
Hey, you're the one wailing and gnashing your teeth about the coming fire. For me Brexit is a morbid symptom of a senescent conservatism based on wealth extraction and compensatory sadism, a press culture built on telling people that a corrupt lefty elite is perversely withholding simple common sense solutions to everything, and of Labour's decision, a lifetime ago, to model itself on all this instead of opposing it. And now...If I understand you correctly, Brexit is just another stepping stone and disrupter on the path to your radical political and social model? Im not sure how a majority would democratically choose it unless they were living in desperate times. A bit like fundamentalist Christians hoping for the end times so they can vanquish evil and wave to the sinners, Muslims, Hindus and atheists on the way up to their eternal life.
...why, it looks like that old lefty bastard is perversely withholding a simple solution to all the problems! Corbyn! Get that toothpaste back in the tube this minute!You do realise this is a Brexit thread? The Tory Party has been wrecked by Brexit but unfortunately it appears Labour have too. A search for scapegoats (beyond the party leadership) is going to be a fruitless exercise- the energy would be best put to ensuring Corbyn comes out for a second referendum or better still, just acknowledge Brexit is a colossal act of political and economic self harm and tell the public.
Labour's been trying damp down the flames on this phony war so that it can get into government and deal with its causes. Doesn't look like it's going to be possible now, and maybe it never was: it'll have to start wetting itself and shouting at people if it wants to rally the progressives. But the best chance of taking the heat out of it long term is still radical reform, and that means a Labour government. Maybe you'll be alright in Scotland.