Labour leapt into Brexit's fires - and now the party is burning

[Denzil_DC]

33. Nonsense. There are Tory MPs who are opposed,

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certainly to a hard Brexit. I'd imagine they looked across the floor of the House of Commons and saw the disarray there and, with a few brave exceptions, decided it wasn't worth sticking their necks out if the Opposition couldn't be bothered.

As it is, under Corbyn, in both the Commons and the Lords, Labour have given May carte blanche to do whatever she wants. And as things stand at the moment, that includes, after Brexit, unraveling all sorts of issues to do with workers' rights, environmental regulations, human rights etc. at the government's leisure without even a veneer of parliamentary scrutiny.

The chances for it to be stopped before the enabling vote existed. They needed some gumption, imagination, and some effort to mobilize the 48% of us and more who didn't vote for it, and the much larger proportion of the population who aren't in favour of withdrawing from the single market (we were promised by numerous prominent Leavers that wasn't even worth worrying about as it wasn't going to happen) and other aspects that it's now going to be much harder to oppose. Christ, if you haven't found the large number of arguments that have been posted on this very group as to why this is an epic clusterfuck persuasive, I don't know what to tell you. The case has been easy to make from day one. And Corbyn was supposedly a figure who could sidestep media negativity and appeal to people directly. But there's that echoing vacuum I've talked about ...