The Conservative Remainer-Rejoiners are going to vote for this deal, as are most of the Labour Remainer-Rejoiners. Like Nigel Farage, the European Research Group has sold out. However unrealistically, the ERG has turned careerist. As for Farage, you would have to ask him.
We are still to be subject to the Common Fisheries Policy in all but name, effectively forever. And we are still to be subject to the State Aid rules, officially forever. But ERG types never did object to the State Aid rules. As far as they are concerned, opposition to the EU was "Loony Left" until, suddenly and for no particular reason, it stopped being, in the very late 1980s.
Jeremy Corbyn's compromise on Brexit was one of the big reasons why I decided to stand as an Independent at last year's General Election. The single biggest, in fact. That is why I do not get the idea that, "If it's good enough for Farage and the ERG, then it's good enough for me." Nothing has ever been good enough for me just because it was good enough for a politician whom I happened to support in general. And I am still the Independent parliamentary candidate for North West Durham. What are you doing?
On the contrary. The Labour Remainer-rejoiners
ReplyDeleteJohn McDonnell, Clive Lewis and Ben Bradshaw, Lord Adonis etc are all voting against this deal. They signed a Labour pro-EU statement opposing this “Tory Hard Brexit.”
While the true Brexiteers of the ERG and Nigel Farage have supported it. It’s a good deal, opposed by all the right people.
It's a sign that they never really believed in Brexit at all, because they never really understood what it was. They have never seen the real problem with the EU.
DeleteThe people who opposed Brexit all oppose this deal, from John McDonnell to Andrew Adonis. The ERG always understand the issue properly-their lawyers have confirmed this deal keeps us out of compliance with EU laws and out of the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice. That means free of the EU.
ReplyDeleteThis is a good deal. It’s critics, including the Economist, are right; it is a “Tory Hard Brexit.”
Jolly good.
The likes of the ERG have never understood; they have few, if any, great minds, anyway. As far as they are concerned, opposition to the EU was "Loony Left" until some time in the very late 1980s, and they have no specific reason why it then stopped being, but it just did. If anyone other than Boris Johnson had brought home this deal, then they would have taken to the streets against it.
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