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The difficulty with resolving Labour's Brexit woes is that the left will always reject the core principles of the single market, including freedom of movement of labour.
It's no wonder Corbyn is being so cautious given the irreconcilable ideological differences within the party. Doing right by the traditional working class Labour base will inevitably alienate the liberal metropolitan lot. At least everyone's finally stopped harping on about another referendum, though.
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The hard socialist left is actually not against freedom of movement aka easy immigration systems. The NI socialists are not.
The left was also internationalist mostly at least some time ago.
The unions are now also supporting staying in the single market.
Most labour members are remain, from research it looks that non labour voters caused a leave vote in most leave areas.
Corbyn just doesn't seem to want it. Momentum also made a lot of anti single market noise.
I like the return to social democraty of labour, but I think they are horrible wrong on brexit (economy / NI border) and their anti immigrantion stance with no support (research doesn't bear it out and it panders to nativism and prejudice) disappoints me.
JWestland
Good question.
From my limited sample of Facebook forums anything that does not include freedom of movement is out.
I also don't see how the Irish border issue can be solved without huge economic costs with no fom and customs union.
Now let's see if there are surveys: not really... So im guessing. It could depend on how "hard" remainers are, moderate onesy be happy with a fom/customs union model where the UK is not in the EU.
I think that's a waste of time but if Labour can sell that to the majority it's a helluva lot better than what we get now.