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> Instead it requires Labour to be a very broad house

This is a severe disconnection from reality, the Labour party is totally ideologically possessed. 52% of the population voted for Brexit and not a single Labour MP supports it. Not a single Labour MP would ever dream of criticising the NHS system. Not a single Labour MP said a bad word about BLM.

The Conservative party are so broad they have everything except actual conservatives.

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Electorate has moved on since Brexit has actually happened, even if the number who would vote differently given what they know today is much smaller than you might expect given how few think it was done well.

Labour's highest poll result this year was 57%, which is kinda nuts even given who was PM at that point — 20 Oct, Omnisis: https://www.omnisis.co.uk/media/1133/vi-005-full-tabs-201020...

This is complete nonsense.

Quite a few Labour MPs supported Leave [0].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Leave

Especially Corbyn, though of course he couldn't "support it" outright because that would mean agreeing with Tories (and he couldn't oppose it outright without angering a lot of Labour members)

Another rewrite of history. He backed Remain.

Very reluctantly, and probably against his own better judgment, at least that was the impression he created.

I agree, pre-referendum he backed Remain, but after that his position was not so firm https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-corbyns-ch...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/22/jeremy-corb...

Did he? Any support he gave was so tepid, I barely noticed.

He made more media appearances than Alan Johnson who was running Labour’s Remain campaign.

Corbyn is a lifelong Eurosceptic who voted against every expansion of EU power that came before him in his entire ~30 year career as an MP pre-2016. He only "opposed" Brexit in 2016 because he had to.

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