Remainers should vote LABOUR on Thursday. Here’s why
Motivating the masses: Jeremy Corbyn speaks to a crowd on the EU elections campaign trail.
Zoe Williams in The Guardian marks out important reasons for ‘Remain’ supporters to vote for the Labour Party in the EU elections.
Her article is a bit long and rambling so I’ve isolated the main points for you, below. They are persuasive.
Now all we need is an article explaining why ‘Leave’ supporters should vote Labour too.
It runs counter to every democratic instinct to see candidates you admire and not vote for them. The Labour candidates are the kind of representatives I would like to see populate the coming era of politics. They are pluralistic, imaginative, radical, ambitious, patriotic.
These elections may be of symbolic significance for our national politics. But they are also of pressing, concrete importance for Europe’s future direction. The rise of the far right in the European parliament constitutes an urgent threat to everything that matters to Labour voters, from human and workplace rights to climate crisis. More than ever, that parliament needs a coherent left bloc.
Someone needs to oppose Nigel Farage, and that will come much more convincingly from somebody with a track history of fighting racism – Clive Lewis, say – than it does from a clubbable Lib Dem. The days when the mainstream right and centre were morally capable of resisting untruth, corruption and racism on their own terms are over: only Labour can do this.
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Now all we need is an article explaining why ‘Leave’ supporters should vote Labour too.
Surely the same reasons apply to ‘Socialist’ Leavers. The number of votes received by Socialist parties right across the EU will have a direct impact on whether the next President of the EU Commission will be a Socialist.
They should listen to the speech Jeremy gave in Liverpool on Sunday.
The comments under that article just show how far right the readership as well as the editorial team has gone. Hundreds upon hundreds of anti Labour comments – it was like swimming in the Daily Fail pool. This was counter balanced by canvassing, where on the Doorstep there were really good responses from the vast majority, mostly Labour voters, but even among the other party supporters it was polite, civil, no such bile. Leavers do need to understand why they should vote Labour, but I doubt any article on that will be found in the pages of the Guardian.