tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1711610253004091876.post602860005147691494..comments2017-06-03T07:11:43.148-07:00Comments on Jeremy's Blog: Jeremy Hortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14040288077436997446noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1711610253004091876.post-7718531801874998502017-04-21T16:49:25.989-07:002017-04-21T16:49:25.989-07:00I'm sorry for this late reply as I only spotte...I'm sorry for this late reply as I only spotted your comment 6 months later. I've played back what he said in the full bbc interview he gave with David Dimbleby<br />, which was: "The British people have made their decision. We must respect that result and Article 50 has to be invoked now so that we negotiate an exit from European Union." So I'm afraid your understanding of what he said is not quite right. What he actually meant by it is open to a lot of conjecture but it was a natural meaning of his words that he was advocating article 50 be triggered now ie straightaway. That this was a reasonable interpretation of what he said is underlined by David Dimbleby then questioning why he was advocating immediately triggering article 50 when even a leader Brexiteer (Daniel Hannon) was suggesting a delay in triggering. Jeremy did not then come back and say of course I don't mean triggering it right away. Either way it sadly illustrated why Jeremy for all his many qualities has so far proved he just does not have the skills to lead the Labour party. Either he made a seriously unwise political judgment or he was extremely careless in the way he expressed himself on such a key issue and without having consulted his cabinet colleagues. It illustrated why sadly he is now likely to lead labour to their worst election result since the 1930s. I very much hope he proves me wrong in that because he is a good honest man who basically has it right in terms of policy. Unfortunately I just dont think many of the public will buy those policies when sold by him. I will nonetheless be praying and campaigning for him to become the next labour prime minister. Sadly at the moment I just cant see that happening and I remain very sad that labour members did not have the good sense to elect owen smith instead who could have united the party and would have had a chance of winning this election. If as expected labour do fail disastrously in this election I only hope that Jeremy will have the humility to resign after having ensured that someone like Clive Lewis is on the leadership ballot paper ie someone who shares his socialist agenda but is more pragmatic and has the media and other skills he lacks. The danger is that either the labour party splits or they reject a socialist agenda and swing back to the right. Both of those outcomes would be a disaster for the country.Jeremy Hortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14040288077436997446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1711610253004091876.post-1947221529762500462016-10-12T23:47:22.669-07:002016-10-12T23:47:22.669-07:00I read as far as the repeated lie that Jeremy said...I read as far as the repeated lie that Jeremy said that article 50 had to be invoked now. I watched that clip several times and I know that the 'soundbite' was taken out of context deliberately. The rest of the sentence cut off, in which Jeremy clearly said that article 50 would have to be invoked now the public had voted to 'leave'. <br />When you come across such an obvious lie, what is the point of reading on ?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09758996660095967124noreply@blogger.com