Jeremy Corbyn has said he is in favour of Britain remaining in the EU, but so discreetly you may have missed it. Elsewhere in this blog I have mentioned how he is doubtless torn in two directions over this issue. the realpolitik situation he faces right now with the UK facing unprecedented dangers should we vote to leave on the one hand, and his hard-left roots on the other, which historically have led him to oppose EU membership. He has refused to appear on the same platform as DC and Osborne, which I would have thought would deal a death blow to the Brexit camp, and again you can hear his militant mates saying "If I ever see you on the same platform as that fascist I'll pull the trigger myself", or words to that effect.
I agree that as far as strange bedfellows goes it would be about the strangest I've ever seen, but strange situations sometimes need strange solutions.
As was pointed out on the Today Programme this morning, one serious danger here is that if we vote to leave, Cameron may be ousted and we end up with an even worse leader, BoJo, for instance, or God help us all, IDS.
So I say to Jeremy: if you really want us to remain, come out and say so, loudly and unambiguously. Offer to appear in public with anyone who agrees with you, because that's how we can win this.
One final word. Why are we having this God damn referendum at all? I know the first answer to occur is that the Tory leadership needed to give a sop to the anti- EU wreckers in its own party , but what if they wanted, say, to invade Poland? Would we have to have a referendum on that too? David Cameron recently said that Brexit would substantially increase the risk of World War III. OK, so if the stakes are that high why on earth take the risk of a referendum in the first place?
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