Thanks for that. That includes not only all Labour MEPs, but most of the PLP, most Labour members, and most Labour voters. In other words, more people than vote for all so-called remain parties put together.
Brexit can't be stopped without Labour. Brexit is the most serious issue facing this country, and we seem to be having serious people seriously suggesting that the next general election will somehow produce a governing coalition formed by Lib Dems, SNP, Greens and ChUK. Back in the real world, if you want to stop Brexit, Labour is your only hope. I won't take your route and start calling people names, but it's about time people realised this.
Yes, generally you are right about this. There's a little too much pie-in-the-sky thinking going on about other parties suddenly getting massive support and becoming kingmakers, or a desertion of Labour by the masses or politics changing dramatically. In, as you say, the real world, politics in this country is almost certainly going to remain Labour v Tory.
It's sort of understandable; so many, including me, are furious at Labour for the Brexit betrayal, and want to hit out at the party; we can't help indulging in revenge fantasies in which the Labour Party gets decimated and Corbyn and Milne get hoofed out in disgrace, and the Party comes crawling back to its natural broad-church base and formulates an approach and direction and a set of policies that are pragmatic but which also seek to help those worst off, all while becoming staunchly pro-Remain/pro-EU.
It's an attractive thought, but we have to remain clear-headed about this. The Tories are the enemy above all, and a Tory defeat is the
sine qua non for any hope of genuinely making this country a better place. And that means, as ever, actively voting to defeat the Tories, not to act out our angry fantasies. And unless things change dramatically in the UK, that's probably going to involve gritting ones teeth and voting Labour and not wasting votes in ways that help the Tories. As much as it might hurt to do so.
However, these Euro Elections are a special case and one has to consider what the best outcome would be to try and foster Remain - either via revocation or a PV. Some of the other voices here are right in that unless Labour run on a more pro-Remain stance, than votes for them will be cast by the leadership as pro Labour Brexit or 'jobs first Brexit' or whatever they are calling it this week.
In these Euros we have to somehow show that Remain has the most support over any sophistry that Corbyn/Milne are attempting, and, of course, over the Leave parties.
It won't be easy; it might not even be doable. But we have to try.
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