>> No major party wants a custom union with the eu, so that's out. I suspect
>> they'll come up with something that the DUP can just about sell to its side
>> and something the EU can just about manage.
>> Labour have said they'd do that, in effect.
Well, yes, but Starmer is promising something that Bunter and his friends in the Fourth Remove have given up on which is why they will simply renege on the agreement they made.
Starmer says the EU will be more amenable with him because he's nice, and more trustworthy - because the EU now thinks the Greyfriars gang speaks with forked tongue (they catch on quick).
Starmer IMO is foolish explicitly to rule out the customs union. It's clearly his long term hope that we will, if not actually rejoin, align much more closely again with the EU. But he knows that come the election the Tories will fight the Red Wall seats by saying that Labour will rejoin the EU. So he has said that Labour will not seek to rejoin the EU or the single market, or join the customs union.
Starmer has a problem of course with these seats where Labour voters were roughly 70% Leave, in contrast with Labour members and voters generally who were majority Remain. But of course the electoral issue is primarily with the Red Wall seats which Labour must recover, and the belief is that they voted Conservative in response to Johnson's GET BREXIT DONE fantasy. And they might yet do it again. People don't like admitting they were wrong.
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