tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post3291664518044040279..comments2024-03-27T09:14:27.496+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: The Class Politics of the Indicative VotesPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-49708205081036597602019-04-02T15:56:40.892+01:002019-04-02T15:56:40.892+01:00Labour including Corbyn has whipped and voted now ...<br /><br />Labour including Corbyn has whipped and voted now twice for a 2nd referendum and also voted last night for the Free movement Norway plus option. <br /><br />This shift feels it has hardly been acknowledged by the Lexiteer / "social dumping" people, apart from Embery who's denounced it for doing electoral damage to Labour as working class Leave voters all voted Leave because (he claims) they want an end to free movement.<br /><br />It presents a real problem for the uncritical Corbyn supporters who have been arguing against free movement on the grounds that Jez has had a brilliant strategy on which shouldn't be critised by the left. They are not necessarily ideological leave supporters but just go along with the leadership. Momentum sort of falls into that category.<br />Jim Denhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01642992463679646250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-27109621619775408872019-04-01T23:46:06.294+01:002019-04-01T23:46:06.294+01:00I think you're being rather generous to the SN...I think you're being rather generous to the SNP there. They supported every motion except the customs union, even though that was the one they knew could pass and they could also expect it to prompt either a Tory split or a general election. <br /><br />As Ian Blackford's later comments indicate, they are happy to maintain the impasse in order to discredit Westminster.David Timoneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03568348438980023320noreply@blogger.com