James O'Brien Questions Jeremy Corbyn's 'For The Many' Slogan Over Brexit Position

James O'Brien Questions Jeremy Corbyn's "For The Many" Slogan Over Brexit Position. James O'Brien queried Labour's clam to be "for the many" after this caller said she backed Jeremy Corbyn's position on Brexit. Labour's leadership have so far refused to back a People's Vote on Brexit, despite 75 % of the membership backing a second referendum. The party's governing body is meeting today to discuss whether to add a People's Vote to its manifesto in time for next month's European elections. As James O'Brien was discussing it, Caroline in Birmingham called up to defend Jeremy Corbyn. But when she insisted she fully backed his stance on Labour, James had a brilliant point. He said: "How will you feel if later today, he rejects the last chance for the Labour Party to stop Brexit?". Caroline insisted: "I have faith in him." So James asked: "Despite all the facts? John McDonnell said 'We don't believe in leaders, we believe that leaders should be following the masses'. "75% of the membership want another referendum." Caroline still claimed: "I will go with his decision because I trust him. He's for the many, not the few." That led James to say: "For the many, not the few. What is 75%? The many or the few? What's bigger - 75 or 25?"

[Bolgernow]

James, you are doing a MASSIVE service. Logic, reason & reality don't pick sides. Bravo!

It's so easy isn't it. If you ask me why, this broadcast just shows how easy it is to manipulate many of the desperate populus. Ignorance is not just born out of poor education but also manipulation by governments media and also laziness. This combined with the greed of the corporates is why we have a country possibly about to implode. I now live in Ireland where the populus are far more clued in on what is happening and the gullibility factor is far less than that of my country the UK. Monsters such as Farage and his backer Aaron Banks, Mark Francois, Rees Mogg and good old Boris are just pure opportunists who only care about self. None of them can be trusted and sad to say innocents like this woman being vicerated by James are just fodder in the jungle for the Populists and the Far Lefties.

[smogmonster]

James if those figures you quote about percentage of membership wanting a 2nd referendum are true then that’s one thing BUT (and I say this as someone who campaigned for and voted Remain) what percentage of Labour voters voted for and still want Brexit.
At the end of the day it isn’t the membership that elects the government it is the general public.
Jeremy in damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t.

Look James I hate Brexit as much as you do but JC has to find some middle ground thru all of this if possible or he’ll be metaphorically kicked in by the other side at the GE and we’ll be stuck with 5 more disastrous years of Tory shysters.

[erzan]

This is tragic. I am a Labour Party Member but people like her are making me question my membership let alone vote.

[LinkJosssssh]

James, what's bigger 52% or 48%?

[paulcopsey]

And there we have it. As a population, not great at maths. Not going to mention analysis or connective thinking.