It’d be nice if the people who lobbied relentlessly for Labour to adopt an out-and-out Remain position accepted some responsiblity for the wash-out though, instead of continuing to smugly blaming Corbyn and his wretched cultists for it all.
Yet to meet a person who supported Corbyn who doesn’t accept that he and his team weren’t partially responsible. The solutions I’ve heard offered from the right of the party have ranged from ‘march every Corbynista off a cliff’ to ‘more racism’ to ‘Jess Phillips’ to ‘produce a rainbow coalition around being pro-EU’. None of them are workable, desirable or even theoretically could be met halfway.
If they were, that was really stupid. Nobody should pay the slightest amount of attention to Euro elections, and only a moderate amount to locals.
Locals are worth examining as an indicator of where things are in comparison to other local elections. EU elections are/were just a load of bullshit, and always have been.
First half of this thread is interesting; the second-half descends into incoherence pretty quickly.
Under normal circumstances I’d absolutely agree, but with 2019 being an election about Brexit (at least to a great number of people) it was understandable that attention was paid to them. Sadly I think the takeaway from the EU elections was that we were between a rock and a hard place with respect to a Brexit strategy.
