Labour policies

[BillyStubbsTears]

WingCo.

With respect, that entirely avoids the point I made.

How on earth can anyone a) take a strong position on Brexit and b) bring the country back together?

a immediate make b impossible in the current climate.

What Corbyn is saying [1] is that it is not his job to tell people what they should believe over Brexit. It's not the job of ANY politician. We've just had 3.5 years of every politician on the Right telling us their opinion of what people were saying when they voted Leave. Most of those opinions and mutually incompatible, few of them tally with what the same politicians said in 2016 and the result is the Great big f**king mess we are in now.

[1] For the record, I think Corbyn is wrong to take this stance. Not because it's unprincipled. Because it is too nuanced to cut through. I think he should have come out clearly and unequivocally for Remain. Because that would have maximised the changes of us stopping the damage that Johnson's Leave will wreak. But I accept that, had he done that, it would not have helped to heal the divisions in society that the idiocy of Brexit have caused.

[wing commander]

    Their are remain and leavers on the Tory side too,but he has made his opinion very clear that if he gets a majority we will be coming out on that deal (for this election anyway).He has all his candidates signed up to that mandate so no more split party...That doesn't seem to have made much of a difference to his polling figures..

   Labour have tried to keep everyone onside,No campaigning from the leader either way because he says it's not down to him to tell the people how to vote.Yet his front bench are more than happy to tell the people which way they should vote a second time around..You cant have it both ways and it hasn't worked in the polls either..

[foxbat]

Labour Press Team@labourpress

Brutal assessment of #Conservative Manifesto by the Institute for Fiscal Studies:

✖"Lack of significant policy action is remarkable".

✖Austerity "baked in".

✖No plan for social care.

[Filo]

   The bottom line is this.The General election was called on 29th October today is the 25th November,the manifesto's are out and we are 2/3rd's through this election campaign.And at best Labour are exactly were they started if not worse than that in the ratings..The tory's are now well odds on to get a majority and Labour now know the very best they can hope for is a hung parliament and try and bed with Sturgeon.She knows it and is now adding trident to her referendum red line before she lifts her skirt and backs them..Not a position of strength...

Thats all big talk and bravado from Sturgeon, so she sticks to her red lines? And Labour don’t budge, she will facilitate a Tory Government and Take Scotland out of the EU, if that happens the SNP are toast and so is she

[big fat yorkshire pudding]

Filo she wouldnt be averse to leaving the EU, it boosts her plea for independence.

BST, I can see what you are saying, but do we really thing what he wants to do is achievable and it's open to the alternate view that it's not about bringing the country together but holding his party together.

[albie]

The first 100 days set out, if Labour hold power;
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/12/100-days-to-transform-britain

Just in case we had forgotten the policies of Labour.......you know, what we are voting on!

[SydneyRover]

Filo she wouldnt be averse to leaving the EU, it boosts her plea for independence.

BST, I can see what you are saying, but do we really thing what he wants to do is achievable and it's open to the alternate view that it's not about bringing the country together but holding his party together.

Speculation from 'the spectator' bfyp?

Added

''The real reason Nicola Sturgeon is campaigning against Brexit''

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/10/the-real-reason-nicola-sturgeon-is-campaigning-against-brexit/