GREAT ANTI-BREXIT POLLS BATMAN : The latest YouGov polls giving the pro-EU Libdems a lead over the other English parties, and Nigel’s company which pretends to be a party, are suspected to have triggered a new round of crossparty crisis talks, between the government and official opposition.
“It’s clearly a message to get on and deliver Brexit,” a Random Drone, Tory MP for Kamikaze-on-swans, told LCD Views, “the people are telling us that if we don’t get this purely voluntary political project delivered then they’ll begin voting for clear anti-Brexit parties just to punish us.”
Given that there is no other possible reading to make of the resurgence of a party that was once banished to the fringes, returning strongly, it’s hoped that the elevation of Boris Johnson to Tory leader will see the Libdems tossed back into the wilderness.
”It’s a clear message to elect the strongest Brexit symbol conceivable,” A Random Idiot also said, because he is one.
But the shock poll is liable to cause more than a ripple of concern amongst the ranks of Labour.
The leadership of Len and Milne, speaking through the medium of Corbyn, have so far remained steadfast in denial of reality. There is a cuddly Brexit to be had, so long as people believe in it. Membership of the single market must end, taking freedom of movement with it, because what’s a right of that magnitude worth when you can remove it? Thus increasing our bargaining power with the bosses of large companies. There’s no chance they’ll just move the jobs back into the single market.
”It also tests the loyalty of those devious pro-EU MPs in our ranks. How much can they take? How much before they walk away as a block? We need to know.”
Just how significant the swing away from the two old parties to smaller pro-EU ones has to be, before a strong anti-Brexit, unambiguous message emerges from the Labour leadership, we need to know too. And how bad does it need to get for more pro-EU Tory MPs to cross the floor?
Let’s hope both sides answer the question before mad Boris (assuming he wins over that mad Hunt) makes a crazed power play to crash us out of the EU. It’ll only take a few more MPs walking away to stop him even forming a government…