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‘Two-tier’: UK treats far-right attacks less harshly than Islamist violence, says thinktank (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Corbyn wasn't pro-Brexit

Your entire argument is built with lies and more lies.

Woops!

https://www.politico.eu/article/jeremy-corbyn-brexit-lofty-neutrality/

Like them, Corbyn favored quitting the EEC in 1975, telling journalists on the eve of his election as leader 20 years later: “'I did vote and I voted ‘No.’”

And it wouldn't be a one-off. As an MP he voted against the Maastricht Treaty that created the European Union in 1993, against the Lisbon Treaty that forms the current constitutional basis of the EU in 2008, and for a referendum on British membership of the EU as far back as 2011

You must be 14, and not know any history. He was vocally anti-EU/pro-Brexit in all its forms for decades until he was leader and had enough pressure from the party that he basically said nothing.

He was never pro-EU because

Corbyn (along with myself and many others on the left) opposed it because we saw the EEC as a capitalist club

Francis Beckett

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

2011 wasn't long before it.

Stop lying.

He voted against the EU in all its forms, for a referendum on membership in 1978, 1993, 2008, 2011.

You are obviously too young to understand that being against the EU is a much older stance than UKIP, and enjoyed a significant support with a number of Labour MPs throughout the 80's and 90's as the EU pushes for privatisation of nationalised services.

Just because a Nazi says the sky is blue does not mean that all people who see a blue sky are Nazis.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

You did fully read that article you linked?

It states that repeatedly during the leadership contest when asked he stated that he would vote to leave.

After winning:

"Labour is clear that we should remain in the EU. But we too want to see reform," he wrote in the Financial Times.

NOT "I believe we should remain in the EU".

He has also stressed he is "not on the same side of the argument" as David Cameron, despite both leaders backing continued EU membership.

Because Labour wasn't in power. It needs that meme:

You support remain because you want unfettered access to Free Market Economics

I support remain because it ties Tory hands together on workers rights

We are not the same.