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But the Labour problem clearly is, and I'd definitely argue that Brexit is strongly connected.
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It seems remarkably clear to me that the two ends of the party don't actually belong in the same party
I dunno. This problem has been around in the Labour movement in some form or other since the Menshevik-Bolshevik split and probably before that. I'd hesitate to say the differences are so large that a split is inevitable - though mainly because I am holding off from any predictions about what will happen in this climate.
feel so utterly disenfranchised as to, effectively, set fire to their homeThe pro-Brexit people I've spoken to are almost certainly a small unrepresentative subset, but all of them seemed to genuinely think voting Leave was a good idea and would make things better, rather than being an act of desperate self-immolation. The only sense of disenfranchisement they' ( ... )
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