If, as polls predict, a Conservative majority is in place by Friday morning, and UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, ‘gets Brexit done’, it will be a starting point only. Labour losing tomorrow would be the most slothful,arrogant, sectarian, and bigoted waste of political opportunity or moral obligation in memory. More deeply, the Labour Party is an open hole in which to see exposed the political sectarianism of those who now control it. It mirrors the phobias of the right and, ultimately, is a place of political disaffection, not of hope. The Liberal Democrats desperately wanted an election before Brexit ‘was done’, because this issue is their calling card.

Source: Irish Examiner December 10, 2019 20:03 UTC