• frazorth@feddit.uk
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    3 months ago

    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

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      Like them, Corbyn favored quitting the EEC in 1975

      Are you a little bit slow? Corbyn may have voted “no” in 1975 but he was NOT pro Brexshit in 2016 so stop lying.

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        3 months ago

        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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          3 months ago

          2011 wasn’t long before it.

          Stop lying.

          When I read posts of people like you I wish public lying with the intention to mislead the public would be a criminal offence. You wouldn’t have too many opportunities to post from behind the bars.

          https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-35743994

          "Speaking after a meeting of the Party of European Socialists in Brussels, he said: “The Labour Party is going to be committed to campaigning to stay in the European Union.”

          Now stop lying.