michael adams wrote:

"Roger Hayter" wrote in message
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michael adams wrote:

"The Todal" wrote in message
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On 02/11/2019 11:04, Stephen Cole wrote:
Omega wrote:
What is Jeremy Corbyn's Brexit position?

Form a Labour government, negotiate a Labour deal, put that deal to a
referendum vs Remain. HTH.


Not only is it a clear and logical policy, it's also the only policy
that makes good sense.

But the whole point, as has become apparent in the last three years, is
that there is no possibility of securing a deal which would both satisfy
the xenophopes and protect UK industry and commerce. The EU are going to
insist on free movement of labour as a necessary component of our
continued membership of the single market and customs union. Without
continued membership of the SM and CU UK industry and services are
severely disadvantaged and will take years to recover if at all.

There simply is no middle way. And so its difficult to see what there is
for Labour to further negotiate over or present as a meaningful
alternative to staying in, in any referendum.

It depends what you think is better. Labour wants to keep most EU
advantages. Therefore will probably negotiate something like a Norway
deal.

Here's parts of one I posted earlier (with labour substituted for people)

The Norway agreement includes free movement of labour. The difference
there is that very few people would want to move to Norway in the
first place so for them it's no big deal. They probably welcome
as many workers as they can get.

Basically when the objection is that workers from the EU
are "coming over here, taking our jobs and working for lower
wages" (whether accurate or not) then Labour offering a referendum
with two options both offering free movement of labour is simply
asking for trouble.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway...nion_relations

AIUI free movement of labour is among the EU's core principals.


michael adams

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It is also one of Labour's core principles, albeit more honoured in
the breach ..

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Roger Hayter