Brexit means bigotry and attacks on workers' rights - Labour should oppose this

I have supported the Shadow Chancellor as a comrade for many years, but I could not disagree more with his risible claim that Labour should be more positive about “Brexit.”

Positive about the threat of deporation hanging over the head of millions of fellow workers?

Positive about the threat to our already pitiable legal rights as workers in this country?

Positive about the unleashing of reaction since the victory of the far right in the referendum?

No.

I’m sorry but I won’t be positive about any of these things.

I won’t give up in the face of the reactionary outcome of the advisory referendum on membership of the EU any more than socialists have ever given up in the face of the election of Tory (or New Labour) Governments.

I do accept that not everyone who voted to leave the EU was a racist.

The rest were idiots (and complete idiots).

Socialists should fight for open borders, workers’ rights and the defence of minorities.

That means opposing “Brexit”.

Which is how to be on the side of our class.