Labour's refusal to oppose Brexit is becoming a historic error

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4. I was in my early 20's at the time of Iraq

And living in a tribally Conservative part of the home counties. Where people did support the invasion of Iraq, they were invariably Tory supporters who would never have considered voting Labour even with Blair at the helm.

If Blair felt his massive majority in the commons gave him the freedom to get away with Iraq, Corbyn's bad EU policies have been strongly emboldened by the second leadership contest and the knowledge that the moderate wing of the party cannot topple him due to Labour's internal politics.

And I should also point out that with the Tories having sewn up the OAP block vote, and with Corbyn & co scaring off many voters from turning to Labour the Conservatives are also taking a lot of their own supporters, especially in business for granted.

I suppose the moral of the story here is that politicians are at their worst when they feel comfortable in their position as that's when they start taking people for granted.