Originally Posted by
ragingpup
I'll sidestep the weirdness of you ignoring all the right wing instigated posts that seem curiously alright by you and try to answer your question.
Corbyn has historically been against the EU as it has traditionally neo liberal agendas and is overall pretty centrist. Somewhere between Blair and Cameron.
Corbyn has, correctly I think, recognised the enormous economic and cultural complexities of coming out of the EU. The far right of the Tory party want, he believes, a mixture of long dead traditionalist ideals of 'green village' England for the romantic Tory, and a stripping of annoying workers rights protections for the more pragmatic profit centred Tory. Neither of which really appeals or is of much real use to in the real world.
Corbyn is against Brexit, and in certain circumstances, a good deal and an ability to build a politics further to the left of the EU is what I think he wants. But not at the price of a recession and lots of lost jobs. Too big a price to pay.
Likewise, I think that he would like to see controls on immigration so that we protect U.K. wages and build U.K. Skills, welcoming migrant workers to fill in skills gaps but raising the value of wages. To avoid a flooded market that works for corporations but not for workers. But he rightly does not want immigrants blamed over this and to give any impression that stopping mass immigration will in itself solve the problem. It won't.
A good Brexit deal would suit Corbyn long term. We could do better than the EU. But we won't under this government as they are neoliberal extreme! They will continue to strangle themselves and hopefully then Corbyn can come in and use the freedom from EU to set up a better way of doing things.
I think that is where he really stands on it.
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