25-06-2016, 11:09
My worry about voting leave was that I was siding with people whose opinions I dislike -------- all the way to abhor! But at least outside the EU there is an infinitessimal chance I can help do something about them. Within the EU I'm relying on the good offices of faceless strangers.
We might even have an election. Farage might win a seat instead of just being an arse.
Even thirty odd years ago when I was a Labour activist there was a very strong working-class Labour dislike of the EEC, way before the phenomenon of Eastern European immigration. The party itself has NEVER been in tune with its grassroots. It isn't Corbyn or even the war-criminal Blair ....... it is endemic. Party members are very different from the Parliamentary Party AND Labour voters are different from both of them.
We might even have an election. Farage might win a seat instead of just being an arse.
Even thirty odd years ago when I was a Labour activist there was a very strong working-class Labour dislike of the EEC, way before the phenomenon of Eastern European immigration. The party itself has NEVER been in tune with its grassroots. It isn't Corbyn or even the war-criminal Blair ....... it is endemic. Party members are very different from the Parliamentary Party AND Labour voters are different from both of them.