How would a lexit campaign ever have media support? There is no traditional media outlets that would be likely to take such a position and recommend it. But it got coverage by columnists taking devil's advocate positions. The reality is that you have to accept that hard left positions will never get wide coverage by established media outlets and you have to fight within the political arena that exists not one of your choosing.
You categorise it as a hard left position without describing why it is a hard left position. Unless you consider Democratic Socialists such as Benn as hard left.
It is no wonder the left get no hearing when even the middle of the road leftists are described as Hard Left. What you are doing is using the Daily Mail tactic of describing anything remotely left wing as Hard Left..
Mcdonnell and Abbott were of similar persuasions, and both heavily backed remain. When Corbyn first came to power, he used "we" rather than "I", he didn't mean it as a royal we. On that basis It would be out of place for him to turn around and dictate the party position based on historical views.
Corbyn could not dictate party policy, it is a Democratic party and policy is decided democratically at conference.
The trouble with not having your voice heard loudly and broadly is that it doesn't take on a distinctive and definitive character. Nobody can answer what Lexit claimed to be because there many versions. The are contemporaneous publications in sites like socialistworker prereferendum that advocated Lexit as an opportunity following the collapse of a chaos engulfed Tory party that evoked ideas that sound heavily wedded in socialist theory of 20th century figures.
Labour Leave
Like the right wing leave the left wing leave also had different ideas of how it should end. For instance The Morning Star supported Lexit as it is a Democratic Socialist stance not a Social Democratic stance. What i would consider the soft left or liberal left were Pro EU but they are comfortable with capitalist excess. Blair himself said that Labour should be comfortable for millionaires.
Unlike Lexit, Brexit had a distinct voice in the form of vote leave and leave.Eu. Although there were two camps, one was just a more cynical bare-faced version that did the heavy lifting of stoking naked xenophobia. Both Farage and Boris are proponents of neo-mercantilism and low tax regimes first and foremost.
Yes it did. Farage and Johnson may be proponents of what they like, but they have gambled as well, if brexit does go tits up as is proving the case at the moment due to the sheer incompetence of Johnson, then the door is open to take the country to the left. Shame we have Keith in charge
Remain and reform, although a fringe argument was still better articulated and had wider support than Lexit.
Not to my satisfaction and it got little traction as RW leave dominated the print media. Most remainer's here argue for the status quo, a position that in my mind was untenable.
This country is not the only one prone to simplistic propaganda tools, see Germany's Swabian housewife vs the Southern European grasshoppers evoked by Merkel against Greece. Human beings are prone to reductive storytelling at the expense of truth and reason, propaganda can always evolve and survive.
As we have seen
For example austerity could die but ideas of neo-liberal politics and economics could grow and renew- there are still chronically infected in reservoirs of nutjobberery ready to beat its drum.
The fight is against neo-liberalism, it is against the reservoir of nutjobbery that brought us the stupidity of those economic policies
Lexit never took hold because it was a shit idea not rooted in reality. There were ways to skirt around state aid laws to further public ownership and greater intervention in key industries without unleashing the destructive and corrosive forces of Brexit.
Lexit was a product of the referendum, Labour Euroscepticism had long lay dormant after the split that lead to the SDP, when in Foots manifesto Labour pledged to take us out of the EU
Osborne (because Cameron is too thick) knew that a referendum could solve Tory disharmony and sew seeds of disharmony in the left. Rather clever of him.
There was no way though a Tory government would skirt around those rules, the Steel industry being point. Only a Labour left led brexit would be enable it.
British governments had idealogical reasons for not intervening in circumstances where the French and Germans would have done, but evoked state aid rules to escape scrutiny.
Yes our governments attachment to neo-liberal economics and its inherent anti state/pro free market stance.
Is it Pethaps more likely that Corbyn took a position more in keeping with the reality of the country and his party than any act of politcal sabotage or cowardice?
I wish he had been true to his convictions and led the Labour leave campaign.
He was a man who never wanted to be a leader and showed it with his characteristically counterproductive stubbornness and indecision.
In your opinion.
The politics of false betrayal and grievance is a right wing trait that the hardline Lexiteers have adopted and will cling to throughout any future defeat such as regression in worker's rights or environmental protections.
The grievance is the Tories fucking up brexit to such an extent things may happen. Brexit itself is still an ideologically sound position, it is just been undertaken by the wrong sort of lunatics.
Clinging to the tree that will never bear fruit with all the stubborn determination of a Japanese holdout.
As is clinging to the EU with its sops to workers and kowtowing to finance.
The fact remains though, we are where we are. We have an extreme right wing brexit that will i fear lead us to a more libertarian, ultra neo-liberal, anti democratic country which i will despise.
It is not my fault though that silly cunts vote Tory.
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