Thread by @fascinatorfun

“after last weekend’s European election results, his grounds for optimism are pretty shaky – I think he just likes general elections. “Let’s get back into the fray & stick it to the Tories!” is the feeling. I reckon it relaxes him.”
He knows the direction! theguardian.com/politics/comme…

2/.
“At heart he’s such a conservative. Small “C”, I hasten to emphasise. I’m not saying he isn’t leftwing. But he’s old school leftwing. He’s determined to find a way of winning the 1983 general election for Labour – it’s his Kobayashi Maru and he’s going to crack it.”

3/“He’s a sincere reformer, a progressive, a socialist – it’s just his starting point doesn’t happen to be the current date. It’s like he wants to live in an Amish community & expend all his energy trying to persuade them to get a steam plough.”

DavidMitchell is so funny & right

4/
“People are always keener to vote Farage when it doesn’t matter, which is why his entire professional political career has been spent in the European parliament, not a proper one. How perverse that he’s dedicated his life to destroying the only institution that will admit him”

5/ Without Remain Unity
“Corbyn’s disdain of compromise, his confusing & equivocal view of the EU, his truculent, inadequate response to accusations of institutional racism – in fact, his whole atavistic and tribal political approach” mean we cannot stop it.

#RemainUnited