Saturday 6 February 2016

Without So Much As A By-Your-Leave

The Labour Left was often far madder, both personally and politically, than the Communist Party, and that could be pretty far gone.

In the same way, the Conservative Right is often, and even normally, far madder than UKIP, which is itself pretty far gone.

Entirely predictably, the involvement of the pair of them is wreaking havoc in the campaign to leave the EU.

They were both going to vote Out anyway, so there was never the slightest need to have them as active participants.

But they are, so we are going to have to prepare ourselves for defeat.

The key is now to maximise the anti-EU vote, in the hope of being able to force something even after we have lost the referendum.

The opposition to the Iraq War paid a terrible price for allowing Trots and Islamists to make the running. 

That mistake is being repeated here.

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  1. It's not because the Right is mad-any more than the Left is mad-it's because the Vote Leave campaign has no major Parliamentary party to represent it. And-as Peter Oborne wrote today-because of Jeremy Corbyn's shameful dereliction of duty in failing to provide any opposition to this EU stitch up and failing even to question Cameron on his fraudulent renegotiation.

    It was left to Cameron's own backbenchers to subject him to the kind of cross examination the Opposition should be doing.

    As Peter Hitchens says, since the conversion of the Tories to the Left, there's no reason for Labour to exist.

    That was very obvious at PMQs.

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    1. He has not said that for quite some time.

      The definition of "the Left" (or, indeed, "the Right") is not "whatever I happen to disagree with", in his case including privatisation, Trident, and military intervention in Syria.

      Even he sees that now. You will, too. Eventually.

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