The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #162855   Message #3906791
Posted By: Steve Shaw
19-Feb-18 - 06:56 PM
Thread Name: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
Subject: RE: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
"There is no point in the miniscule [sic] membership insisting that labour supports remain when deprived areas voted to leave.
Personally I expect this division, coupled with the invidious advance of momentum, to totally destroy the labour party."

Well the membership isn't exactly minuscule. We don't "insist" that Labour supports remain, but a good number of us are trying to make the argument. "Deprived areas" is a broad brush. Certainly you can always find pockets of leave if you circumscribe chosen areas very precisely and tendentiously, but you simply can't argue with the fact that a sizeable majority of Labour voters, taking the country as a whole (which is precisely how the referendum result was measured), voted remain in the referendum. That's all. I don't care at all if you want to atomise the referendum result by area, but I remember how nasty you got when I suggested differentiating the result by age distribution. Funny, that. Your wish for the destruction of the party has oft been revisited by Tories down the decades. What I suggest you do is look carefully at the horrid rifts in your own party, which seem far more likely (though still not very likely) to cause it to self-destruct. I still feel that Labour is keeping its powder dry for now. Even I can live in hope.

By the way, the word you were looking for was "insidious."