Sunday 22 April 2018

Update on single market and Corbyn

Still looking at newspapers but not much to blog about. also lots of repeats when I do. But there may be news next week re Single Market and votes in Commons.

Quite obscure though, newspapers not leading on this, maybe Brexit is boring or maybe the case for a rethink is going over better than widely supposed.

Sunday Times has a small piece on front page continued  page 2 , policy on Customs Union may change. Mail on Sunday an inside report, there will be trouble if this happens. Notice there is not the welcome you might expect from previously, seems the Mail is as one every day of the week. Not sure about this, not buying papers so often.

Watching Sunday morning telly there was an interview with Nicky Morgan but not much about Labour on this policy. Just my impression but it still seems that knocking Corbyn is the priority for much of the "centrist" reporting. We seem to be heading back to when his leadership started. Maybe I am imagining this but I guess people like Lord Adonis could choose to draw attention to official Labouyr policy on Single Market and make that an issue. I can see why LibDems want to suggest Remainers should vote other than Labour. But if Brexit will be opposed by persuading the people who have supported it so far then maybe Labour is well placed to do so.

I still think Corbyn was effective during referendum, talking about EU as support for environment, worker rights and also discussing policy to support areas with problems around immigration. It may turn out the blog will continue around the same set of topics.

But not looking hopeful from a Remainer point of view, much too metro globalist. Even for a BBC studio.