I completely agree with this mate and by the way, happy birthday for yesterday. I would just add that it appears to me, that, along with the political elite, the very rich are mostly in favour of remain.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jul/22/jacob-rees-mogg-second-irish-fund-scm One for @ELLERS to ponder.
So far I’ve got health and happiness. If you can explain how Brexit will improve either of those you should be in the Cabinet. Even the great man of the people JRM is predicting a quick 50 years of hurt.
Some very contradictory polling in the Sunday Times today. Firstly, claim that if there were a referendum on the lines that Greening suggested, Remain would Beat Leave by 54-46 after second preferences counted. But then it asked people who they would vote for if there were new parties: - a right wing party supporting Brexit -38% - a centrist party supporting staying in -33% - a hard right party which was anti Islam, anti immigration and anti EU - 24% Why no left wing options were given is a mystery. Probably all bollocks.
Does sound like a lot of bollocks. You’d hope 1 in 4 wouldn’t vote for a hard right party described as anti-Islam, immigration and the biggest trading bloc in the world. Then again didn’t UKIP get about 15% share once?
62 % right or far right and supporting Brexit sounds very high too. Then again I guess if you support Brexit and are not far right you'd pick option one regardless of your politics. But 24% far right? Surely that must be wrong.
I think if you are granted anonymity in stating your preference the hard right 24% is not beyond credibility. Two of the three policies are explicitly what 52% voted for in the real referendum, it’s not a stretch to bung anti Islam in as well. Perhaps they should have worded it differently, offering a choice between: An economically liberal, socially conservative right wing party pro Brexit A socially liberal, mixed economy centrist party pro EU Nazis/DUP anti everything
There isn’t one, as I said in the original post, they didn’t go further than centrist. A true left wing version would be: Socially conservative, managed economy party pro Brexit. In my opinion.
Why? I’m not talking about the Labour Party, I’m reflecting on serious left wing parties elsewhere Socially conservative - there is a weird moralism about them, not great on stuff like LGBT rights. The great liberal reforms of the sixties under Labour were definitively centrist Managed economy - goes without saying, that is socialism Pro Brexit - unless the EU is a socialist enterprise, of course. Membership precludes proper socialism in any member states
