Need more space than a tweet. Just to check what I think I heard was right. Was half asleep for most of it but I think today the Today prog included both sides of the Brexit argument, that is Remain and Cabinet inside the Conservative Party. Closes with discussion of National Government as suggested by Remain. But nothing from the Labour Party, either front bench or supposed to be closer to Anna Soubry.
Unless I fell asleep and missed it this seems to me to confirm an impression of how the BBC covers Brexit. They were under two lots of pressure during referendum, both Conservative. Partly because of the views of most of the PLP at the time there was very little reporting of what Jeremy Corbyn actually said. Mandelson then as now sticks to trade and economy. He is right about the disaster but my point is that just backing up Cameron did not persuade anyone.
Dutch MP seems about right on high chance of a "chaos Brexit" , not as a choice from anyone but because Rees-Mogg and others can disrupt any sort of process. Many see some cross party opposition to this. But the danger meanwhile is that most of the country, the left behind, the just about managing, the north and midlands are left out of the picture. Persuading them requires attention to the issues Corbyn raised in the referendum. On Sunday Politics a Labour MP started to talk about worker rights and environment protection and was very quickly wound up."Please don't go through the six tests again" , sorry can't remember the name, will check later.
So BBC seems to follow the newspapers, mostly a debate between Conservatives, maybe the Guardian with a guest Anna Soubry fan from various sources. Am I being unfair? time will tell.
"chaos Brexit" may well happen before an election. At some point in time the wider electorate opinion will matter. Corbyn is part of a discussion. Suggest he be allowed space, not bashed about by Remain fans. If he is on the Today prog he may be allowed time to explain something before an editor arrives to tell us that actually the Labour Party is confused.
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