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Well, it just about worked at the last general election. Whether it will work with a European election I don't know. As often said, the problem with the 'Brexit' vote is that it's a combination between jingoists and people who genuinely believe that it's the European Union which is responsible for social ills. Labour needs to win back the second category of voter (whether they're jingoists or not), as they include many of its traditional voters. The issue is not as toxic for Labour, but electorally just as problematic (unless the Tories really implode over it).
Also, the problem with the EU hasn't been the basic concept. The problem has been that for a long time it has been dominated by European Conservatives. That means it has favoured policies for European industry (France's and Germany's most prominently), largely through the vehicle of the Single Market, which has meant that fewer large players have come to dominate the European economy than before. This has resulted in 'consolidation', job losses, devastation of regional economies, and has also opened the door to 'new' kinds of worker exploitation by the likes of Amazon, against which the EU has not found an effective counter-measure. It's not hard to see why some leftwingers go against it, as it is far from perfect. That's all before mentioning the over-hasty introduction of the Euro, largely driven by that idiot Helmut Kohl, which has had the effect on smaller southern countries like Greece that I think has very much influenced the perception in Britain that the EU is some kind of foreign dictatorship keen to take over Britain (no thanks to Merkel's and Schäuble's completely inept handling of that crisis). You can see how social justice issues and all that stuff about sovereignty mesh. I do think that social justice is the vastly more important issue; whether voters are going to see it that way remains to be seen.
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How is this remotely possible? Who agreed that this was a suitable line to try to take? I simply don't understand it - I doubt that a single vote will be vote with 'Social Justice' as the leading contributory factor. It doesn't make it past a cursory sense check.
Even if you were minded to vote on 'Social Justice', at the European Elections - you still wouldn't be able to because you'd still have to vote based on Brexit because your European Representative might not be there in six months to try to influence 'Social Justice'.