By Our Leave

Most economists backed Remain, and warned of dire consequences in the event of Brexit.

Well, we had already had 40 years of the dire consequences of them up here, so we told them where to stick it. If we hadn't, then Remain would have won.

But as it is, we have a Government that is as convinced as ever that those economists cannot be wrong, so it is as committed as ever to Remain. That's the Conservative Party for you. 

Labour, by contrast, is now led by people who have been pointing out that those economists were wrong since the 1970s. In the country, it is largely made up of people of the same mind.

It is a shame about many Labour MPs, who are in the middle between the sound Leadership and the sound membership, and who are the only people who will have noticed Tony Blair's Observer article yesterday, never mind read it.

Like him, they are lined up in principle with at least five sixths of Conservative MPs, although even they are probably not going to vote with them.

In any case, another hung Parliament is coming, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it.

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