Brexiters are the true progressives now

westernpromise

The progressives are the people in places like Stoke. It is they who are open-minded and politically brave and trusting in democracy, so much so that they defied all expert diktats and in their thousands put an X against Brussels and for popular sovereignty in the EU referendum last year. It’s Labour’s metropolitan Remainers, currently panicking about economic collapse and the return of fascism, who have been consumed by a low politics of fear and whose timid instinct is to take refuge from political unpredictability and the forces of history in the grey citadel of Brussels — Little Europeanism, we might call it. Labour’s working-class Brexiteers, by contrast, took a massive political risk, expressed their faith in the democratic process, and demonstrated a willingness to upend the status quo to the end of fashioning something different and better. They’re the open-minded ones; they’re the progressives.

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/02/labour-deserves-crushing-defeat-stoke/

An interesting read.

And my God, look at the photo of the Labour candidate. That bloke looks exactly like the picture that comes into my mind's eye whenever I hear or read the words "Labour Party".