While the nation faces huge and historic issues over Brexit Labour gathers in Liverpool to talk about itself
Meanwhile Phil Collins is dead right – while the Tories go through their Brexit travails all Corbyn's LAB wants to talk about is itself
https://t.co/NYSLTbXBkN— Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) September 21, 2018
Today’s Times column by Phillip Collins hits the nail on the head about Labour and its current state.
“..The issues of the hour are historic. Are any of the half-formed answers to the Irish border question at all practicable? Will the strong desire of the European Union 27 to agree a deal quieten the opposition to Mrs May’s besieged plans? Is it really worth risking exit without a deal for the distant and unlikely prize of winning a second referendum? Is there not a danger that thwarting the first referendum would result in civil disobedience? Is that not a democratic outrage? Never mind all of that. Let’s talk about the contemporary criterion for conference motions.
The Labour Party has decided it need not pay attention to the historic turn of events…The Labour leadership isn’t interested in Europe. All it has ever wanted is to take back control of the Labour Party. Which is what the Labour conference will essentially be about. All conversations in the party since Tony Blair left office have been, in one way or another, about which faction is the rightful owner of the party heritage…”
Meanwhile this from the latest polling ought to be worrying the red team.
Detailed data from the latest @IpsosMORI poll finds LAB shedding 10% of its GE2017 vote to the LDs and 3% to the Greens
— Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) September 21, 2018