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Thread #159827   Message #3802129
Posted By: Steve Shaw
26-Jul-16 - 12:10 PM
Thread Name: BS: (UK) Whither the Labour Party
Subject: RE: BS: (UK) Whither the Labour Party
That was to Keith, Jack.

"Racist collaborators" is a bit strong. Calling the racist agenda out for what it was because of its attacks on immigrants would have been like calling half the country racist and that would hardly have swung the bloody thing round. The remain campaign was uncoordinated and tactically bereft and made worse by the employment of the fear factor, and the out campaign always had that immigration trump card, used cynically to the full. Let's not forget that Cameron and May had sealed their own fate by promising to control immigration and failing abysmally. I agree that Labour did not exhibit a strong, united front and that Corbyn lacked genuine commitment. But the Tories, who forced the bloody referendum on us, was split from arse to tit, which doomed Cameron in the end.