Tommy Tainant
Diamond Member
European elections: Remain triumphant
After weeks of wall-to-wall coverage of the Brexiters - be it Nigel Farage or the circus of Tory leadership candidates - it was Remain which came out triumphant in the end. The Lib Dems, Greens, SNP, Plaid and Change UK vote share, so far, was 40.4%. The Brexit party and Ukip together was 34.9%.
If you - rather crudely, but not altogether unfairly - add the Labour vote to Remain and the Brexit vote to the Tories, it comes out even starker. Just 44% for Brexit parties and 54.5% for Remain parties.
The question now is how do the remain parties harness this momentum to stop the brexit disaster from happening.
It all comes back to parliament and labours position. They need to look at the pasting they have been given and get behind a second referendum.
Labour,SNP,Plaid,Greens,Change and the Libs - together with dissident tories can take control of this process and work together to save the country from disaster.
The only group against them will spend the next two months trying to stab each other in the back. Corbyn needs to listen to the people because we have spoken.
After weeks of wall-to-wall coverage of the Brexiters - be it Nigel Farage or the circus of Tory leadership candidates - it was Remain which came out triumphant in the end. The Lib Dems, Greens, SNP, Plaid and Change UK vote share, so far, was 40.4%. The Brexit party and Ukip together was 34.9%.
If you - rather crudely, but not altogether unfairly - add the Labour vote to Remain and the Brexit vote to the Tories, it comes out even starker. Just 44% for Brexit parties and 54.5% for Remain parties.
The question now is how do the remain parties harness this momentum to stop the brexit disaster from happening.
It all comes back to parliament and labours position. They need to look at the pasting they have been given and get behind a second referendum.
Labour,SNP,Plaid,Greens,Change and the Libs - together with dissident tories can take control of this process and work together to save the country from disaster.
The only group against them will spend the next two months trying to stab each other in the back. Corbyn needs to listen to the people because we have spoken.