The thing is, Labour, and even the more sensible wing of the Conservative Party did speak out, they were branded ‘Project Fear.’ Now it’s coming to pass. The supporters of Brexit are still not likely to listen. There was no excuse for the Corbyn and Abbot show, the last manifesto was an embarrassing fiction. I can see both sides of the coin with triggering Article 50, I veer towards making them issue a plan before triggering it, but look where ignoring the will of the people got Labour and the Liberals. Hard to compare the SNP, the outcome in Scotland was different, and so Sturgeon by opposing it is reflecting the will of the Scottish.
I’m not even sure that harping on about it now is sensible, I do hope to see something about renegotiation in the Labour manifesto though. Maybe a Customs Union. Even that would though I suspect be electorally toxic, it would give single issue Boris his platform back, and once more he could sing to the galleries. ‘They want to steal our Brexit, they want to give back control.’ I can see the dogs nodding.
I’m not defending the Labour Party, I think they’re currently far too inward looking to have any chance of success. Our current electoral choices under our system though are pretty slim. Labour or Conservative it is. There is no neither option, voting Liberal or Green is not going to remove the ugly right wing nationalists from power. The alternative may not be that great, but I’m certain they are better. Being moderately less crap than the Tories though is not much to aspire to. We deserve much better.