Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
It's quite funny how immigration went from being the single biggest topic in the pre Referendum debate to the subject which no one really wanted to talk about once the No vote was secured. It goes back to that Will Self quote about not everyone who voted Leave being a racist, but all racists voted Leave which Mark Francois had so much trouble understanding. The votes of such people were courted by the likes of Farage in particular and Clive Lewis is not wrong in saying that, but I hope these quotes were not used in the contect of his leadership bid, because I feel Labour needs to move on from Brexit now.
It probably does but a lot of the consequence of Brexit will be felt over the next 2-5 years so moving on completely from pointing that out isn't responsible leadership, and fearing yet more Brexit fatigue isn't the best reason to act that way. If the accepted narrative becomes that the issues we may face going forward are no longer to do with Brexit then isn't it the same as accepting that austerity was a result of Labour run finances rather than global banking crisis? Boris Johnson comes out and says no one else did more to help bankers and no one cares because most still believe it was a labour government responsible.