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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.
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The hard socialist left is actually not against freedom of movement aka easy immigration systems.
Can you really say that?
I've heard plenty of politicians over the years make statements that are totally at odds with FOM or protectionist anti-EU in nature.
I don't think I've heard them make any arguments based on maintaining a cohesive "British" society. But it seems a stretch to claim there is a set hard left view on immigration.
I like the return to social democraty of labour
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The hard socialist left is actually not against freedom of movement aka easy immigration systems.
I'm really not sure how you came to this conclusion.
We need to move away from the assumption that xenophobic immigration hysteria is the only reason to object to freedom of movement of labour. Remain supporters clinging onto this nonsense is a large part of the reason for the poor standard of debate between the left and the Labour "moderates".
I won't get into my position because I don't think it would go down very well here, but it's clear that Corbyn doubts the possibility of delivering a "progressive" policy platform whilst maintaining our current relationship to the single market. I think his statements on the topic have been uniquely (by the standard of parliamentary politics at the moment) nuanced and realistic but for some reason it's more important to most that he takes a "clear stance" in whatever direction.
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spiderpie
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.