Jobs first bollocks

Today, at the Labour Party conference, Keir Starmer announced that it would not support any deal that May might obtain from the EU and if that ended in a 2nd referendum, remain would be a choice on the ballot paper. Only, its not that simple. It never is.

The party’s preference would be to have a General Election in the event of may not getting and WA through Parliament, and at this moment it seems to be party policy to go through with Brexit, though some vague “jobs first brexit”, whatever that is.

It has taken an age for Labour to even consider a 2nd referendum, so this is movement, but if the leader still wants leave, and will manipulate party machinery to ensure the hardest choices are the ones on offer, rather than go all in to remain. Thing is, of course, is that the left is as mad keen on Brexit as the right, and the rest of the country is caught between these two dogmatic coups fighting to push the accelerator harder to the floor as the country careers towards the cliff edge.

That Corbyn believe he could do better than May as PM in regards to Brexit. Maybe he even really believes in what he calls a "jobs first brext", a phrase as lacking in substance as Brexit means Brexit or firm and stable. But until this is challenged by the media as to what this means in detail, we will be trapped in the madhouse.

As things stand, with the Muppet show that is the current Government and that being made up of incompetents and fuckwits, Labour is 5 points behind the Government in polls. This is not a good look for Labour in opposition to what is seemed as the worse PM and Government for several generations.

Question is, would Labour switch to remain to win an election or not?

Meanwhile the Government published the last of its (incomplete) technical notices on the risks of no deal Brexit, and it makes sobering reading with planes to the EU unable to fly, drivers having to get additional motor insurance, truck and coach drivers permits not being valid, pet passports not working any more.

Bear in mind, the first tranche was covered heavily by the media, these slipped out without hardly anyone noticing, and these effects would be very serious indeed.

The BBC has been critical of the methodology in the IEA’s report published yesterday in calculating “benefits” for leaving the EU. Its not easy to find on the website, but is there, and if more journalists from the State broadcaster were as methodical as this, and on top of the issues, then pressing answers for details of Brexit would have brought more clarity.

As it is, stricter immigration, and based on wealth and skills will mean fruit and vegetables going unpicked, elderly people in homes not being cared for, and the NHS having a further staffing crisis, but lets not let reality get in the way of Brexit, eh?