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TimeSnowDemos

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9. By advocating an option you describe as:
Tue Jun 12, 2018, 06:38 AM
Jun 2018

"non-starter"

How is advocating AGAINST what his members want, against what the country wants, and for what you rightfully think is dead in the water and a disaster for Labour if he SUCCEEDED, how is that worth supporting?

I get that you want to stop May - Labour can't, but I get that you and they want to - but advocating for disaster, claiming it's success, that seems inherently delusional, or dishonest.

If a party leader is openly advocating for a disaster, purely to mess with the opposition - Labour has no real power here - I would not support them.

I would support people NOT advocating for disaster, but that leaves me few options in the UK. Because both major parties are claiming that their form of disaster is better - not relative to success, but relative to each other. Because both major parties are living in a fact free bubble.

Brexit is going to make the UK a LOT worse. It COULD be stopped if the support for a second referendum was grown, and quickly, but that would take leaders that cared more about their country than their petty political squabbles.

So, off the cliff you'll go.

It's a great time for people that want to see the UK suffer.

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