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Oliver Schick
^^If Corbyn pushes this to, and wins, a GE and then takes us out of the EU he will guarantee that the Tories sweep back in at the next GE due to the impact on the economy that leaving will bring.
Every single credible forecast shows negative impacts - and they range from "bad", where we stay as close as we can to the EU, to "Mad Max undersold this" of the ERG version.
And voters will follow the economy - the Tories will advance a line of "Labour destroyed the economy, only we can bring it back and therefore have money for the NHS".
Where does that get us? It gets us a Tory government that has absolutely none of the restrictions that EU membership put in place - which also means goodbye to the NHS, EU food-standards, workers rights and so forth. It also brings us to a place where we are in dire economic straights that the Tories can use to justify re-casting the UK as an American clone.
Once Brexit is done it cannot be recalled, and even if Labour are the ones to do it the Tories can then take advantage of it. It's a box that should not be opened, as to do so enables the sort of horrors that the Mercers only dream of.
A Conservative government that would cancel A50 is better for the UK than a Corbyn government that would not.
(One reason for this is that Corbyn having to impose far greater austerity than the Tories would fatally compromise his brand).