Brexit can still be stopped
Brexit can still stopped. The first step, though, is to halt an emerging mood of retreat among anti-Brexit people. “People switch off from responding to every depressing political twist and turn of Brexit”, one activist wrote to us this week. Another: “people in my local [anti-Brexit] group feel down after Jeremy Corbyn’s responses on 28 and 29 January”. Yet others have said: “Face facts. Brexit is going to go through. No amount of agitation now will make much difference. The task now is to prepare the left for after Brexit”. Versions of the same sentiment appear among the not-politically...