{"id":178274,"date":"2019-01-19T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T02:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/01\/19\/this-just-in-jeremy-corbyn-can-count\/"},"modified":"2019-01-19T21:01:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T02:01:00","slug":"this-just-in-jeremy-corbyn-can-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/01\/19\/this-just-in-jeremy-corbyn-can-count\/","title":{"rendered":"This Just In:  Jeremy Corbyn Can Count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Corbyn has been opposed to a a 2<sup>nd<\/sup> referendum on Brexit ever since the process started.<\/p>\n<p>There have been a few motivations ascribed to to this with Corbyn&#8217;s mild Euroskepticism (true) and the suggestion that that the EU is fundamentally a neoliberal institution that is structured to dismantle the modern social safety net (also true).<\/p>\n<p>Well, now we have what seems to be a more likely explanation, that Jeremy Corbyn understands the political dynamics involved.<\/p>\n<p>There are two very clear data points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/nov\/30\/labour-mps-reject-may-brexit-deal-voted-leave\">60% of Labour constituencies voted for Brexit<\/a>, and in a first past the post system this is crucial.<\/li>\n<li>Supporting a new referendum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2019\/jan\/19\/labour-would-lose-voters-with-stop-brexit-policy-poll-suggests\">makes voters less likely to support the Labour Party<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As Labour Party leader, these have to be a part of his considerations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Corbyn has been opposed to a a 2nd referendum on Brexit ever since the process started. There have been a few motivations ascribed to to this with Corbyn&#8217;s mild Euroskepticism (true) and the suggestion that that the EU is fundamentally a neoliberal institution that is structured to dismantle the modern social safety net (also &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[627,371,394,417,444,449,374],"class_list":["post-178274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-brexit","tag-europe","tag-foreign-relations","tag-international-commerce","tag-international-finance","tag-legislation","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}