EwanI Ted
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i'm not sure spending the next two years refusing to have a (public) view on Brexit is doable for Corbyn. At the moment he can brush it off by focussing on the Tories and their deal, or on avoiding no deal, which after all is the priority. But going through a general election and then an entire renegotiation process with the EU while refusing to ever say if he thinks his deal is better or worse than remaining? That's a tough ask.I think the key will be to try and keep it off the conference agenda - not sure if they will be successful in that but i suspect that will be the aim
Free votes makes some sense (though it will also make the party seem disunited but thats probably the trade off for the party not tearing its self apart) - But I think the problem is that 99% of labour MPs will be arguig for remain or leave in that free vote if corbyn tries to hold a neutral position I think hes ' feked (presubably I will deliver whatever the people want is in his mind how it will go - in truth he will be attached as gutless and not prepared to tell us what he thinks on the biggest issue of the day - he will be destroyed in every interview and hes not the best interviewee anyway but seeing him trying to avoid giving an opinion... well its not exactly straight talking politics is it)
Its also unclear what would happen to the Government duing that period. Would ministers also be expected to stay neutral during that process if the Prime Minister was? I dont see how he can maintain party discipline now when most of the senior (shadow) ministers have already said they'd back Remain, that cats out of the bag. But if he doesnt at least try to maintain discipline and pretty much every senior minister goes around saying that Remain is the best option for the next couple of years, well, that'll destroy any semblence of leadership.