Quote Originally Posted by noel View Post
I agree it's very strange. It does seem like official party policy, but I don't think Corbyn has yet actually endorsed it.

You could call it "constructive ambiguity", a "broad church" or a "complete shambles" - it's probably all three. If you look at the sorry state the conservative party has got itself into over Brexit, you could argue that Labour's approach is a pragmatic one. Why tear themselves apart too? They clearly can't reconcile so many opposing views.
I'm not sure the Tory party has got itself in to a state lately. I think Theresa May did that with her election call in 2017, her awful campaign, her awful manifesto which led to her loss of 17 MPs.

They had a small majority before then, but also had DUP support, so there really was little risk of the Lancaster House speech not getting through.

Her bad judgement gave the rebels such as Grieve, Allen, Wollaston and Soubry who had endorsed Brexit pre election, the power to influence and shape policy, aided and abetted by such as Hammond, Clark, Gauke, Liddington and Rudd in Cabinet.

Now the Tory party is probably more united and clear than it has been for 2 decades.

It just doesn't have the numbers in the Commons.