It’s funny to see the Labour Party making a last-ditch effort to persuade voters to stay in the EU – funny, because it fought the 2015 general election on the basis that there should not be a referendum at all.
Failed leader Ed Miliband and his colleagues hold the British population in such contempt that they insisted that we had to be kept locked in the EU prison for life.
Miliband and co. actively said – with arrogant pride – that they had made up our minds already: citizens would never be up for parole; the key should be thrown away. This was a classic attempt at trying to bury an awkward issue.
There is nothing to indicate that any of these people have altered their view. They still believe that we plebs must do as we are told and stay in shackles.
Now that the shoe is on the other foot, and the people do (collectively) hold the power on the EU issue, they desperately want to talk to us about it.
This is why MPs like Tom Watson are out on the stump lecturing people about the dangers of quitting the EU project.
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The fact is, during the 2015 general election, Labour assumed that the man in the street is such a fool, he was too stupid to realize that he was being hoodwinked on the EU issue.
Watson and his helpers actually thought Miliband would become prime minister by denying the people a say on the EU.
Labour’s woeful election performance, losing 24 seats and barely securing 30% of the vote, shows how wrong they were.
Of course people care about the EU and its consequences. Of course they wanted a referendum.
This partly explains why the Tories, who of course did promise a referendum in their manifesto, pulled off a surprise victory.
Perhaps if Labour had included a referendum promise in the 2015 manifesto, people would be listening to the Labour ‘Remain’ message a little more closely.
The irony is that in many cases, Labour MPs are canvassing on behalf of the official Remain campaign and, by extension, on behalf of David Cameron.
So – Cameron has in essence agreed that politicos from the opposing party who didn’t want a referendum in the first place should now go out and do his bidding for him in order that he doesn’t suffer the indignity (as he sees it) of having his name in the history books as the man on whose watch Britain quit the EU.
That’s the tangle the Remain campaign is in.
But how can Labour MPs expect support from people on an issue which it doesn’t believe they deserve a say in anyway?
They can’t, and the polls are tilting in favour of Brexit.
This is what happens when you treat the electorate with contempt.
