Originally posted by Nefertiti2
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It's all that bollocks that they were coming out with about a 'jobs-first' brexit. That's the fucking fantasy bit. That's the nonsense bit, that's the bit that can't be forgiven. There's no such thing as a jobs first brexit. This is going to devastate wide swathes of the UK economy. And instead of pointing out this incredibly obvious problem with brexit, Labour have instead spent the last three years saying that the problem is with the Tory form of brexit and not brexit itself. Labour have spent much of the last three years pretending that there is some fucking possible scenario where brexit doesn't obliterate the export services sector, while putting an axe through the forehead of the manufacturing sector, so even if there is a second referendum, literally no ground work has been done to win it.
The proposals outlined in this story are good. But they are literally meaningless in the context of brexit. I know that it can be annoying to keep hearing this, but sooner or later the penny has to drop, and that is that brexit is going to be the death of any progressive improvements to the UK economy or public sector. Nothing really bad has ever happened in the UK in living memory. There have been a few wobbles along the way, a vicious class and economic war, but there is nothing to compare to what we went through over the last decade. That may be about to change. That's the thing that needs to be focused on.
Which brings us back to the obvious question, why is a supposedly lft wing party, dishonestly claiming that they will implement a better form of predictable and obvious economic nightmare, rather than trying to fight against it? You were supposed to have left two and a half months ago. You're due to leave in four and a half months time. Nothing has changed, except the tories have gone full blown-tea party, and labour are still not ruling out calling a second referendum.
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