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Given the Tories seem to have pinned the entire 2007-08 financial crisis on Labour, I’m sure they can return the favour in spades when it comes to apportioning blame for the Brexit slump. That the Tories called the referendum that led to it, then have owned it since makes it an open goal in my view.
If Labour succeed in forcing a GE and then winning it then that would coincide with our leaving the EU, pretty much at the same time I suspect. Best case scenario there is that Labour signs the WA on offer so we get a transition, but discounting the FOTL-esque interpretations of their manifesto we'd still be facing significant economic challenges as the larger manufacturers and financial services houses left ahead of 2021. Labour would be the government that oversaw that process and would be indelibly marked by it I suspect.
Or, Labour get into power in 2022 (currently scheduled GE) just in time to inherit the outcome of the UK moving onto WTO terms. Again, Labour would be the party that are in power during the really hard times, and would be associated with them.
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The Tory regimes of the past 8 years have borrowed more money than all Labour governments ever, yet still they try and blame that on Gordon Brown, something which large sectors of the electorate seem to have swallowed. Corbyn just has to use the same play book to pin this whole sorry mess on the Tories.
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Given the Tories seem to have pinned the entire 2007-08 financial crisis on Labour, I’m sure they can return the favour in spades when it comes to apportioning blame for the Brexit slump. That the Tories called the referendum that led to it, then have owned it since makes it an open goal in my view.