As he has down throughout his less than mediocre political career, Jeremy Corbyn will once again be going through the lobbies with the Conservatives, this time to support Theresa May’s decision to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty. Not only that, as leader he is going to attempt to force his MPs to do the same, forcing them to be loyal. You couldn’t make it up.
Look – we know that the UK voted to leave the EU. Most of us accept it to. Some of us have always been 100% pro EU and remain that way. Corbyn has always been a happy leaver and I didn’t believe a word of his half-hearted comments in favour of remaining in the EU. Now we’re leaving, I believe Corbyn is as happy as Larry.
It is one thing to support the triggering of Article 50, but it is quite another to trigger it without knowing what the hell is going to happen next. Theresa May has announced that we are to face the hardest possible Brexit, with all the damage that will cause our country in the decades ahead. She has made migration, not the economy, as her red line and, to my absolute disgust the leader of the opposition (allegedly) now supports her.
Yes, Jeremy Corbyn and the comrades who are taking Labour off a cliff are going to conspire with the Tories to take the country off it too. No matter that all the main parties, including Ukip, promised that membership of the single market was not on the table if we left the EU, May now decides it is, conceding one major negotiating weapon before talks on leaving have even begun.
The majority of Labour supporters voted to stay in the EU and I would like to know who is representing us in the months and years ahead. When, in March, the government enacts Article 50 with a huge majority in the Commons, Theresa May will be able to do whatever she likes. The former pro EU home secretary has become the most fanatical leaver, desperate to pander to the hard right in the Tory party and her cheerleaders in the media. Look what a little bit of power can do to someone.
I am struggling to remain, in the Labour Party that is. Corbyn has an enormous mandate to carry on as the worst leader in Labour’s history and he, or rather his henchmen, are building the remnants of Labour in his image. I’m 50/50 now in the should I stay or should I go stakes.
As ever, the far right and far left always manage to meet in the end and that’s how it is with leaving the EU and we now have the gruesome sight of Jeremy Corbyn dancing to the tune of Nigel Farage, the man to whom leaving the EU was the pinnacle of his career and his greatest achievement.
Without Farage, we would not have left the EU and without Farage Trump’s supporters are beginning to suggest their man might not have won the presidency, such was the earthquake of Brexit and its aftershocks. And the dream of Farage, to weaken and destroy the European Union, became the dream of Donald Trump who can then fuck over a disunited, impotent Europe and the dream of Vladimir Putin who also dreams of a disunited, impotent Europe for for very different reasons. And Jeremy Corbyn – Jeremy fucking Corbyn – now dances, at least by proxy, to the tune of some of the worst and most dangerous people on earth.
I didn’t think 2017 could be worse than 2016 but a few short weeks in I am not so sure. With the Labour Party finally throwing in the towel in Britain, as Trump and Putin control and threaten the world, things can only get worse.
