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‘Seldom do opposition parties have as much power to prevent damage to the lives of millions of their voters. Even more seldom do they squander it in the way Jeremy Corbyn has so far’ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
‘Labour’s current approach – that it wants a mandate via a general election to negotiate a better withdrawal deal – is just as irresponsible as the government’s’
“The Labour leadership’s pretence that they can negotiate a Brexit that maintains the ‘exact same’ benefits of EU membership while curtailing freedom of movement is sheer fantasy”
‘a referendum on the deal versus the status quo is right in principle; the 2016 referendum provided a narrow mandate for the government to negotiate the best deal it could, not a blank cheque for it to take Britain out of the EU any way it saw fit, regardless of the costs’
‘if Labour enables May’s Brexit, history will not forgive the party. Voters will rightly hold the whole political establishment accountable for a withdrawal deal that will inevitably make Britain into a rule-taker, jeopardise the union and make people poorer’
‘Corbyn faces a choice: he can help prevent it [a Brexit that could split the union and sharpen the inequalities & resentments between the richest & poorest parts of the country] or he can go down in history as having been entirely complicit in making this tragedy happen’
