The Labour party is united: the vast majority of its MPs, its members and its voters – from all classes – want Britain to stay in the European Union. Yet Labour’s leadership refuses to speak for this powerful and growing conviction within its party – in the country, too, with opinion polls hardening in favour of EU membership. As the government amazingly puts the country on to a war footing to manage the fallout of an impending hard Brexit, Labour’s voice is weak and temporising. Photograph: Imageplotter/Rex/ShutterstockAll members of the Labour party must now examine their conscience: is this what they stand for and believe? The Labour party has hit bottom – conniving in antisemitism and now in the rightwing coup that is Brexit.

Source: The Guardian December 23, 2018 06:00 UTC