Labour has done nothing

Reader GE Black in his recent suggests the current Labour Party is the worst we have had in Parliament to date.

Up to that point I’m inclined to agree with him.

However, his reasoning – that they are ‘anti-British and pro-European’ – is bizarre.

Firstly, because of the implication that those two things go hand in hand – the Brexit squad would love us to believe you can’t be proBritish and pro-European at the same time, even though we’ve benefited from and actively influenced the EU as a member for 40 years.

They seem to find the idea of cooperation for mutual benefit difficult to comprehend, and the ‘us and them’ language whipped up around the time of the referendum is unhelpful and dangerous.

No one forced us out of the EU, the decision to turn on our allies was that of leavers, not of the allies themselves.

The other thing that baffles me about his claim is that Labour has fallen into line behind the Tories at every point during the shambolic attempt to implement this process.

Jeremy Corbyn has always seemed to back Brexit more than Theresa May herself, and it’s thanks to Labour’s impotence as an opposition that we’re now heading towards the ‘hardest’, most damaging form of EU exit imaginable – very far from the ‘Norway model’ that most leave campaigners happily pointed towards before the referendum.

Yes, Labour is doing a terrible job. Because they are backing the Tories at every harmful turn, and have done nothing of any consequence to help limit the damage. Michael Hall