The "good enough for me" brigade needs to explain the fact that John Redwood and Owen Paterson could not vote for this deal. The DUP went so far as to vote against it. There was one Remainer Labour vote against, but of the 36 Labour abstainers, at least two, to my certain knowledge, were Leavers.
Nor is Jeremy Corbyn, who also abstained, noted as an enthusiast for the EU; his Facebook post today essentially sets out the age-old Bennite position. And Claudia Webbe recently appeared on an Internet television programme during which she showed no dissent from Daniel Kebede's description of the EU as "absolutely hostile to the Global South and to black lives", or from his identification of Fortress Europe as the model for Donald Trump and his wall.
Kebede strongly rejected the suggestion that all Leave voters were racists. Instead, he insisted that, "the fundamental driver was that people had wanted more control over their lives." He is obviously one of us, and he lives here in North West Durham. The Constituency Labour Party could do a great deal worse.
The "good enough for me" brigade needs to explain the fact that John Redwood and Owen Paterson could not vote for this deal.
ReplyDeleteEasy. Their concerns, like those of the DUP, are simply over the separate treatment of Northern Ireland.
None of them deny that, as the ERG Star Chamber of lawyers confirmed, this is an excellent deal for mainland Britain that restores the sovereignty of Parliament and frees us from the European Court Of Justice, European regulations, European Arrest Warrant and all the rest.
No one can take grown men who call themselves "the Star Chamber" seriously. The ERG was desperate to support this deal with a view to preferment, and it called in the lawyers whom it knew would give it an excuse to order.
DeleteBless. You and the anti Brexit Labour diehards are the only ones to oppose this deal. It does restore Parliamentary sovereignty, as has been confirmed by legal experts. Only the Conservative Party was ever going to take us out of the EU.
ReplyDeleteI guess you have a hard time coming to terms with that. Sorry, mate, but leftwing eurosceptics just don’t exist any more.
What "legal experts"? The joke "Star Chamber" of retired solicitors and non-practising barristers? In 18 months' time, you will pretend that you had always agreed with me about this deal.
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