No spin? HE has the youngsters on his side and working hard for him on social media yet he is at heart anti-EU!! And banging on about worker's rights being at risk despite the UK either bringing those rights in way before the EU or the UK being the main driver behind the EU implementing a lot of these laws.
Do you think he is now an EU supporter? Or just keeping quiet about what he really thinks?
I think that, deep down, Jeremy Corbyn is against the EU. There are elements such as human rights and environmental matters where I feel he would be supportive but it is interesting reading far Left websites such as SWP's where you get a different flavour of things where they are suggesting that the EU is pro-Capitalist and therefore we are better off out of it. I don't believe that Corbyn's views would be much different. It is a fascinating argument as I would consider myself to be very much pro-European. It is possible to see where Corbyn and McDonnell may be coming from and this is what makes me think that both are inherently sceptical of what it has to offer.
We are now in a situation whereby we have a Conservative leader who wanted us to remain wishing to be voted in to lead the negotiations to quit the EU whereas Corbyn is trying to win on the basis that he would offer a softer Brexit. I find the whole Brexit scenario fascinating because the fault lines do not fall clearly between the different parties. In my opinion, Corbyn was actually quite cynical insofar that he did not put any effort in campaigning to remain in the EU as it is seen by many factions within the political Left that the EU exists purely to prop up capitalism. The result ultimately worked to his advantage as the Tories were seen to be split and the Liberals too weak to muster a Remain counter-attack. You can sense why the likes of Blair and Mandelson were furious but sticking to backing Brexit serves Corbyn further insofar it ostracises the New Labour faction, All in all, I imagine that the Brexit vote delighted both Corbyn and McDonnell especially as so many traditional Labour voters were also in favour but both have not played their true hand as there is simply no need for them to mention Brexit. Not being a "Remainer" suits their agenda and they can allow the New Labour MP's to be quickly alienated from the Labour voters. The whole Brexit scenario has played superbly in to the hand of the Far Left and I think it was in the Sunday Telegraph last year that there was an article explaining how this suited a Marxist strategy.
Of course, by seeing to remain on the fence when the wheels eventually come off because the negotiations have broken down or due to the anticipated economic consequences, Labour will obviously and rightly blame the Conservatives. Currently, it is a win / win situation for them and it will remain so just as long as they are not doing the Brexit negotiations.
Currently the momentum seems to be with Labour but even if they don't win this time around, the likely consequences of Brexit will mean Labour will eventually be elected as our democratic government. I think this is why they need to act quickly after the election to ensure that any New Labour MPs ae deselected as quickly as possible and the new parliamentary candidates are "on message" with both Corbyn and McDonnell. Labour would be foolish to discard Corbyn after 8th June if they do not win as they will never have such a good opportunity to have a genuinely Socialist government as we have now.
Personally, I feel we should have remained in the EU but tried to change it more radically from within and seen that money was shared out equally amongst all member states. I think that would have helped migration within Europe.
