Yet more division with new vote bid
I have a prediction. Theresa May will stake her premiership on the Chequers plan which will fail. She’ll call an election and ask Europe for a pause while this happens.
When a new government is voted in, hopefully a Labour one, there’ll be a longer pause for the administration to settle in. Then there’ll be a new referendum and remain will win, the stock market will go ballistic, shares will rise, the pound will soar and the money people will make a killing. All will be well, as if nothing ever happened.
Kevin Walker, Barnsley
The pledge by Mr Corbyn to agree to ignore the millions of Labour supporters who voted to regain the UK’s independence is insulting to every one of those people who put their faith in our democracy.
As a lifelong Labour supporter, who delivered letters at the Co-op in Nechells, Birmingham, aged seven, I’m shocked. It may frustrate the useless Government we currently suffer, but I’m convinced millions like myself won’t vote to return to the undemocratic shower in Brussels currently running Europe
into the ground.
Noel Fennell, Birmingham
Although Jeremy Corbyn says he’d prefer a general election to a people’s vote on Brexit, his argument remains flawed. If Labour wins an overall majority in a snap election, a new Labour Government would still be faced with the disaster of Brexit. And there’s no reason to suppose the EU negotiating position would be
changed in any way. The Labour leadership should commit to its radical policies together with an immediate Brexit referendum and a postponement of the March 2019 deadline.
Otherwise, Labour plans for reform could well be thwarted by the dire economic consequences of all that might follow Britain leaving the EU. Moreover, such a commitment to a second referendum now that 2016 Brexit lies have been exposed, would, in my view, be a vote-winner.
Paul Methven Winscombe, Somerset
How refreshing to hear Unite’s Len McCluskey pour scorn on support for a people’s vote. The Labour Remainers seem to forget that the people have had a vote and chose Leave.
Any attempt to ignore that decision would surely be a crime against democracy itself, wouldn’t it? It’s done, deal with it and deal us out – with no deal!
A Smith, March, Cambs
A Hallelujah louder than Leonard Cohen’s illustrious song for the Labour Party’s growing conversion to a second referendum which will end the Brexit funeral pyre of our economy and rights. Leave means an economic car crash – Land Rover’s three-day week for workers is now real and not “project fear” as the propagandists like to claim. The country is stripped naked now and people can see what Brexit means – more a crown of thorns than a rose garden.
Collin Rossini, Dovercourt, Essex
For Corbyn to support a second referendum is a disaster for those us who voted for him to be leader, as I think he could be ousted soon after. Chuka Umunna, who undermines him, may value a second vote. But I want an election and Corbyn as PM.
Steven McNamara Middlesbrough