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Biggest early news coming out of the Question Time I'm not able to watch?

"Corbyn confirms he would be neutral during second referendum on Brexit." Apparently this is the first time he has made such an explicit statement. In other words, he's less Remain than last time!
Guardian Live Blog:

And he confirms he would be neutral in a second referendum. “First heard here in Question Time,” he says.
That seems to marry with this...
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This is what I was talking about earlier. You can't just snap your fingers and magic £58 billion out of thin air, even if the cause it is intended to address is very worthy. That's about half the cost of a decade of austerity!
And it sabotages their manifesto into the bargain. Buckets of free ammo for the Tories.
It's almost as if they... want to lose?
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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Many of the same people who oppose Brexit oppose Jeremy Corbyn's vast spending plans and slew of nationalisations.

Labour has never ever acknowledged that it needs their votes if it is to have any chance of winning the general election. /1
Simply put:
- Labour's base wasn't sufficient to win it a majority in 2017
- Polls make it crystal clear that Labour have lost a lot of their 2017 base, some to the LibDems, some to the Brexit Party (or even the Tories for one election cycle) /2
So the only way of countering that is to find additional pools of voters elsewhere.

*But* the further you get from Labour's robust core, the more Corbyn is a huge turn-off.

A strong pro-Remain position could have compensated for that. Instead, Corbyn made the fence official! /3
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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"Labour pledges £58bn for women caught in pension trap" Another £58 billion because 🤷🏻‍♂️ why not? Might as well, it's all funny money. Labour's not even bothering to explain where the money will come from. Jaded? At this point, yes! It's just daft... theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
Before you start saying that they deserve it, they're a worthy cause, anything like that, stop. That's literally not the point. There are umpteen and one worthy causes thanks to the Tories dismantling the welfare system - that doesn't mean that it's advisable to address them.
At some point, a modest amount of fiscal responsibility has to enter the picture, otherwise you might as well just raise your finger to the corner of your mouth Dr Evil style, and cackle: "£100 trillion pounds."
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Jon Worth
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I have long maintained that a second referendum on #Brexit is the only way out of the UK's current conundrum.

But a few aspects of this have been nagging at me.

Now having been put on the spot by @edaross I am going to explore this a bit more in a thread.

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First, if a #PeoplesVote is to happen, it requires an extension of the #Article50 negotiation period - because it would take a good 20 weeks to organise such a referendum, as @ConUnit_UCL argue convincingly here:
constitution-unit.com/2018/10/09/how…

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At the time of writing we are 123 days, or just over 18 weeks away from exit day 29.3.2019

If Commons has its "Meaningful Vote" (that failing might be the starting gun for a referendum process) on 10 December that is 104 days, less than 15 weeks from exit day. Too tight.

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