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I don't agree with all of @tom_watson speech on Labour and Remain but it's a useful intervention: I want to stay in the EU despite the Lisbon and Maastricht treaties, whose economic results are killing the idea of Europe... 1/
2/ I want a second referendum because, with parliament paralysed, it's the only way to reverse the first - and to let us decide on real options, not the fantasy options of 2016...
3/ I want to stay in the EU because May's deal gives UK less sovereignty than we have now, and No Deal/WTO hands the NHS over to American privateers... but Eatson is right on one thing...
4/ Labour needs to get off the fence when it comes to values - stop triangulating with the prejudices of people who have never voted for us; represent the whole working class of now; confidently give voice to the ideals of our 500k members...
5/ The co-ordinated vilification of pro-Remain Labour MPs, activists and journalists by a few Stalinists in the union bureaucracy, backed by the Morning Star and Squawkbox, is going to get worse when Labour's line changes... but change it will...
6/ I don't want a "listening excercise" ... I want a vote at the next Shadow Cabinet, NEC and Labour conference - and a clear plan of how we take the fight to Farage in the English/Welsh Leave areas... why waste summer fighting the inevitable change of line Labour's members want?
7/ We are now in a 4/5 party political fragmentation story. To rebuild Labour as an electoral alliance of working people across three nations, and across the cultural divide, needs a new strategy and a clear narrative: Stop Brexit and rebuild Britain instead.
