I’ve always thought her a bit strange especially the pro hunting stance. Leaving the European Union isn’t just an ERG/right wing ideology though the left has never been a fan of EU membership. Tony Benn never wanted to be in first time around and said for years he wanted out as did the likes of Peter Shore and Eric Heffer. Labour leave had the likes of Frank Field, Graham Stringer, John Mann, Gisela Stuart, John Mills to name but a few. Even good old Dennis Skinner and the banished gorgeous George Galloway wanted out. It’s an uncomfortable truth for many on here but brexit crossed party lines and even more so in the constituencies hence the disaster at the last election. Maybe if Corbyn had stuck to his real beliefs on EU membership that red wall would still have a bit of cement in it.
What were Corbyn’s real beliefs on EU membership?
Gisela Stuart was as bad as Hoey.
Those Brexiters on the left were as ignorant of the EU as those on the right. Many formed their views in the 1970’s and were unable to update their views despite the evident evolving of the EU into a very different beast it was in 1974. That is a very human failing, especially among the highly principled, the ideologically driven and the very loyal, who all can find it difficult to change a position.
The thing is, the key question, is not whether the EU had faults or if it sometimes makes poor decisions. It does. No-one on the pro EU side said otherwise. The question was whether we should leave. Was not being part of the EU
better?
Well, to know that, we needed to know what the actual future destination was to be. We only found that four and a half years
after the flaming vote. It’s not good. It makes an absolute mockery of the idea that those who voted leave used any kind of clear logical reasoning. They did not. They were ignorant people, duped, shutting their eyes, crossing their fingers and putting a cross in a box that relied on the very worst type of Conservative MP to implement, those with no understanding, no heart and no plan.