If you sign up for a political party you don't have to agree with every single policy. That's why both major parties are split about all sorts of things in all kinds of ways. Both would claim to be broad churches. A key word is "political." The main aim of a political party is to get power. To do that they have to play politics. I don't know any Labour Party members that are pro-brexit. I have a sneaky feeling that, deep down, Corbyn, McDonnell and co. are virulently anti-brexit now that they've seen how things are panning out. But they can't come out and say so for political reasons, that is, it would make them immediate electoral toast, and that's what you don't make yourself if you're remotely interested in getting into power rather than spending your life as a protest group. You don't get power in this country unless you are devious and economical with the truth and generous with half-truths. With many people that translates as "these scumbags are all the same" and they turn away from politics and don't vote. But someone has to run the country and its in everybody's interest to try to follow what's going on so that the politicos stay accountable. Farage, Gove and Johnson (as well as Keith's Chancellor Of Remain), had they been fully held to account by a knowledgeable electorate, would all be sweeping the streets by now. But they've all got away with what was a shameful and disreputable few months in this country's politics.

One thing's for sure. If and when Corbyn becomes PM he won't be a one-man band. The personal attacks on him in the last election backfired very badly because people know that, and, what's more, he played politics a damn sight better than the Tories did. And, unlike Theresa May, he's untested. There's a lot of that around these days. In times of desperately awful politics it's what people turn to. Be very afraid, Tories, though probably not quite yet!