Are Labour Party angling to rehash Brexit debate again?
This week reports suggest that Sir Kier Starmer and the Labour Party are keen to reopen the Brexit debate. Before we start, I voted remain, quickly accepting the vote and respecting the process of democracy. What’s mad about the Brexit debate gaining momentum again is that’s the only way the Tories can win the next general election. They are hardly going to win on the back of their exquisite record of performance.
If Labour (or any other opposition party) make the general election narrative about 2019 issues, we already know the response.
Sure, Boris had to hide in a fridge but when he came out, he and the Tories gave Corbyn and Labour a proper walloping.
This, history tells us, is because the grassroot ranks of the
Labour movement, colloquially known as the ‘Red Wall’, is primarily made up of working-class voters who wanted the UK to leave the bureaucracy of the European Union. They are also a demographic that generally could not care less about the enforced key issues of the day.
Gender, diversity, sexual orientation… who has what in their swimming trunks - all worthy, but none solve the problems of the working men and women on this green and pleasant land.
That combined with a large proportion of Tory voters favouring Brexit too, handed out a lesson to Westminster in the dangers of ignoring ‘the people’.
Now there are many people, I’m sure, who rightly think that the execution of Brexit leaves a lot to be desired.
Therefore, it is technically possible to generate a debate that Brexit can be done ‘better’. But surely there are more pertinent points on which to attack the Government’s record - the NHS, the economy, the societal division. All that aside, unless you are staunch Remainer, who has made it your life’s work to overturn the vote, you will be exhausted and probably apathetic about the whole episode.
We need change that reinstates positivity about the future, draws a line under the past and enables us all to move forward.
I for one am sick of the stagnant pond we find ourselves treading water in. Brexit has happened, it can be made better, but if anyone makes it one of the main poles of their argument, the metaphorical tent will fall. And when it's rebuilt, we'll all still be at the circus.