Yes, and I think the problem for people like me and many others in the Remain camp is that while I detest what the backbench Tories want to do to our country, Labour offer no credible alternative, aside from waving placards about ‘no austerity’ as if that’s meant to fix everything.
Corbyn is a ridiculous caricature. We’re in the midst of the greatest referendum of our lifetime and the only half-hearted argument this elbow-patch plank is offering is based upon half-witted support for remaining in the EU under the guise of working alongside ‘socialist governments and trade unions’.
Eh? Which socialist governments, Jeremy? More to the point, socialism and trade unions are so far down the priority list of normal people that I sometimes wonder if he was elected as Labour leader as some kind of reality TV show prank.
The world is facing great threats: the rise of an ugly brand of nationalism, an America heading into some kind of ‘cold’ civil war, a chaotic Middle East, a debt-ridden EU, climate change, a belligerent Russia, an unprecedented refugee crisis, ISIL, and North Ferriby United.
And what’s Corbyn’s answer to all this? Trade unions? Really? Does he think people in the decimated industrial heartlands of the north wake up every day to an increasingly bleak future and think: “You know what would sort this derelict ghost town? More socialism!”…?
What a bloody mess.