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digianarchist
1275 days ago
Another rewrite of history. He backed Remain.
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chrisbaker98
1275 days ago
Corbyn is a lifelong Eurosceptic who voted against every expansion of EU power that came before him in his entire ~30 year career as an MP pre-2016. He only "opposed" Brexit in 2016 because he had to.
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hermitcrab
1275 days ago
Did he? Any support he gave was so tepid, I barely noticed.
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digianarchist
1275 days ago
He made more media appearances than Alan Johnson who was running Labour’s Remain campaign.
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raverbashing
1275 days ago
I agree, pre-referendum he backed Remain, but after that his position was not so firm
https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-corbyns-ch...
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/22/jeremy-corb...
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bojan
1275 days ago
Very reluctantly, and probably against his own better judgment, at least that was the impression he created.
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