Ransom Notes

So, who is going to be paying this ransom to the EU? As a comment on a previous post very kindly put it, "200,000 of us here in the Leave heartland cheered Dennis Skinner even though he wasn't even speaking and cheered Jeremy Corbyn until some of us were in tears. You were there, I saw you up at the front where you belong. People as far as the eye could see."

It was the individuals, families, communities and areas that had suffered most as a result of politically chosen austerity, and which have given most to wars of political choice, that elected Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Labour Party, that delivered the referendum vote to leave the European Union, that re-elected Corbyn even more overwhelmingly, and that deprived the Conservative Party of its overall majority in the House of Commons. Yet Brexit is being negotiated, insofar as it is being negotiated at all, in precisely the interests of which the referendum result was a comprehensive rejection.

Instead of that, we need a Brexit for those who voted for Brexit, namely the formulation, articulation and implementation of the alternative to neoliberal economic policy and to neoconservative foreign policy, based on the pursuit of economic equality and of international peace through the democratic political control of the means to those ends, including a Leader of the Labour Party who is, and who deserves to be, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

That Leader is Jeremy Corbyn.