Jeremy Corbyn’s Brexit problem is also a disaster for Jews

[maz]

I'm not even following Brexit anymore so I have no idea what's going on. I thought Corbyn was against leaving the EU.

These people are hysterical and I would bet that there's no real anti-Semitism in the UK.

It's not just anti-Semitism: Jeremy Corbyn's Brexit problem is also a disaster for Jews

Jews are rarely central to peacetime domestic British politics. But on Feb. 18, Jewishness appeared front and center at Westminster when seven members of Parliament left the Labour Party, citing its inability to effectively oppose an unworkable Brexit and its apparent unwillingness to confront anti-Semitism.

Some of them represent significant, but small, Jewish communities.

"Enough is enough," said Chris Leslie, a former shadow minister who is part of the "Independent Group." Luciana Berger, the Jewish member of Parliament for Liverpool and another of the seven, said she felt "embarrassed and ashamed" of the party's record on anti-Jewish racism.

Berger is right to be ashamed of the turn toward anti-Jewish hatred that this once proudly anti-racist party has taken under Jeremy Corbyn, its leader since September 2015. For an avowed anti-racist of the post-Nazi era, Corbyn has expended an extraordinary amount of time and political capital to avoid admitting that he and his party have been anti-Semitic, despite the overwhelming public proof.

Yet anti-Semitism is far from the only way Corbyn is endangering his country's Jews.

In the announcement of the split, the Parliament members said it was a pivotal moment in British politics: If no political action is taken, Britain will crash out of the European Union on March 29 with seismic financial and political ramifications. This despite the leaders of both major political parties campaigning to "Remain" in the union in the 2016 referendum. Many people speculate that the "Leave" vote, which was widely expected to lose, was significantly a protest vote against the political elite. Although the country did narrowly vote for Brexit, the Leave campaign repeatedly lied, appealed to irreconcilable views of Brexit and is under numerous investigations of serious illegal political actions.

Anti-Semitism, or anti-Jewish racism, is obviously a Jewish issue. But Brexit, if it actually occurs, would be disastrous for Britain's Jews and other minority groups. The European Union, for all its bureaucracy and pomposity, has been a unifying power and a guarantor of rights for individuals and groups. Both Brexit and anti-Semitism are Jewish issues — and Corbyn is on the wrong side of both.

Opposing Brexit is a sine qua non of any leader committed to helping minorities in Britain and Europe. As always, it is the vulnerable who suffer when the powerful – like Corbyn, Prime Minister Theresa May and Britain as a whole – are weak. As Jews, we know that when nationalism bolsters insecurity, Jews become reviled outsiders. From the Crusades to the Spanish Inquisition to the Second World War, we know that when war marches across Europe it is Jews, women, Armenians and Romany who suffer.

Yet Corbyn is uncharacteristically coy on both the post-Nazi project of European reconciliation and on anti-Jewish hatred. This is a man who, somewhat like Bernie Sanders in America, portrays himself as a garrulous throwback, a straight talker who has had a front row seat for 30 years of history. But on the question of anti-Semitism, he vacillates. And he seems unable to speak clearly about his vision of a British relationship with the European Union, tacking tacitly toward a soft Brexit that will harm the Conservatives most.

Corbyn seems to be playing a devious political game devised by his unscrupulous henchmen Andrew Murray and Seumas Milne. Although he was nominally for remaining, he is putting personal politics ahead of embracing a union that has transformed the war fields of past centuries into peaceful economic powerhouse. Instead of belonging to a Europe capable of securing the rights of its minorities and workers and withstanding Russia, China, Amazon and Google, he is gambling Jewish safety and workers' security for his political gain.

The country and the major parties, Labour and Conservative, have been divided by Brexit for four years now. Within those parties, there have been such serious differences of opinion that it's as if each has contained at least two effective parties. Labour has pro-Europe and anti-Europe factions, the Tories have pro-Europe, soft Brexit and hard anti-Europe factions.

The three Tory Parliament members who joined the Independent Group on Wednesday were from the pro-Europe side of the party. After a lukewarm role in the Remain campaign in 2016, and much to the dismay of many Labour supporters, Corbyn has seemingly decided to accept the fact of Brexit rather than support the "People's Vote" — a second referendum on Brexit that would propose actual exit strategies rather than the lies proposed the first time.

Of course, the Conservative malcontents who either oppose Brexit or aim to force the hardest Brexit possible have a vested interest in staying within the party in power. Despite the Conservatives' abysmal popularity rating and the unpopular looming Brexit, Labour was only able to rally enough votes in the last general election to reduce the Conservative majority. So the Independent Group had less power to lose by leaving and more anti-racist credibility to gain. The vast majority of Jewish Labour supporters – increased to eight by the addition of Joan Ryan, the leader of Labour Friends of Israel – have now left the party.

As long as the leaders of the Labour Party will not commit to fight anti-Jewish racism in their own party and, at the same time, continue to abet Brexit's undermining of the rights of minorities, they will be abandoned by people who support anti-racism and the rights of minorities. Whether the Independent Group succeeds or fails, history will show that it did not stand by idly as its major political parties blindly lead Britain to bigoted doom.

[yankeedoodle]

Been following it somewhat, but it is extremely confusing.  I think Jeremy Corbin's historical positions would be considered pro-Brexit, but, as leader of the opposition Labour Party, he may have taken a position against the Conservative Party that might be considered less pro-Brexit.

Of course, the jews are working 24/7 making up "anti-semitism" bullshit. 
MP who fabricated anti-Semitism scandal leaves Labour, citing 'culture of racism and anti-Semitism'
Read all about it here:  https://www.rt.com/uk/452028-joan-ryan-antisemitism-labour/

Theresa May, on the other hand, was a Remainer, but, somehow, she became Prime Minister, and seems - "seems" - to be determined to push Brexit through, declaring that "the people have spoken" and that she will do her duty, regardless of her former opinion.

Of course, there's relentless talk - argument - about a second referendum, and whether Theresa May, as a former Remainer, may be conducting negotiations in such a way as to wreck any chance for Brexit to be implemented, and, thus, the Brits will plead for the chance to remain in the EU.

As regards the jews, as always, it's ALL ABOUT THEM.  Israhell wants to destroy the EU and it's pro-Palestinian posture, so Brexit is good for Israhell.  Just because it benefits Israhell doesn't mean it benefits jews in Britain and Europe, of course, so they're crying, and the long-term plot is for these crying jews to flee a crumbling Europe that is in turmoil due to the immigrants Israhell is pushing into Europe, and for these fleeing jews to seek refuge in Israhell, which has pushed the immigrants into Europe, so the jews that flee Europe can live with the other God-damned fucking jews in Israhell.      

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCGir5REhL8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKy8xtLearg

[yankeedoodle]

UK Labour to support a second Brexit referendum – Jeremy Corbyn
https://www.rt.com/uk/452390-labour-to-support-second-brexit/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has announced that his party will either table or support an amendment backing a second Brexit referendum this week.

Corbyn said that he would support a new referendum to avoid a "damaging Tory Brexit" and accused May of "recklessly running down the clock" in an attempt to force MPs to choose between her "botched deal" or a "disastrous no deal" scenario.

Corbyn had faced criticism in recent weeks and months from other opposition parties for not calling for a new referendum — but with less than a month to go before the UK is set to officially leave the EU, the Labour leader seems to have been convinced that another vote may be the only way out of the current impasse.

Asked earlier in the week about his opinion on a second referendum, Corbyn said his party was discussing it and that it was something they would "consider" doing.

Labour would campaign for the 'remain' side in any new referendum, but British Prime Minister Theresa May has so far ruled out calling another vote, saying that the 2016 result should be respected.

Supporters of a second vote say that given the current Brexit deadlock, putting the choice to the people again, this time with more information available to them, is the only way to determine if Britons still want to leave the EU.

The decision comes a week after nine Labour lawmkers quit the party citing its approach to Brexit as one of the reasons.

Other prominent pro-remain Labour figures are welcoming Corbyn's decision. MP David Lammy said that it would be "wrong" to force Brexit on the public in the current circumstances and that "any deal will be worse than the one we've already got inside the EU."

The UK Times reported last week that Corbyn was warned that he could face another spate of resignations from the party if he did not back plans to put the question of Brexit to the public again.

Corbyn said he would work to force May to adopt his party's approach to Brexit, which includes a permanent customs union with the EU (a major sticking point between the pro- and anti-Brexit sides), a close alignment with the single market and unambiguous agreements on future security arrangements. He also said Labour will support an amendment taking a 'no deal' outcome off the table.