all right my name's phil i like talking about politics and in this video i'd like to discuss the recent attack on brexit and the brexit deal from labour's shadow chancellor rachel reeves who will be the second most powerful member of the government if the party actually get their electoral strategy right i want to point out how a statement alongside similar lines from members of the front bench point to the way labour are now going to tackle brexit as the election looms closer but first if you'd like to be notified of daily news and politics please subscribe to the channel and click the bell notification icon um so important topic at the end of the day whether we entirely agree with labor strategy or not labour's brexit strategy is going to be crucial in moving away from brexit so i want to focus on it's a somewhat narrow topic labour's brexit strategy and and yes they do now seem to be revealing it they've been keeping their cards close to their chest for a while they're revealing it now carefully in a way to take account of the alternatives that others would like that's what i want to discuss so basically if i go to the end of last year the conservatives put their brexit deal to a token vote in parliament labour voted for it others wanted them to abstain or vote against it voting against it would have been wrong i said so at the time i still say so voting against it is voting for a no deal some will argue no no no because there was no chance of the vote being defeated but it's like do you not watch parliamentary debates that misses the whole point of a vote for opposition mps opposition mps are almost always guaranteed to lose votes in parliament unless they want to vote with the government that's how it works in parliament any parliament the opposition loses votes that's how it works does that mean it doesn't matter which way they vote of course not their vote is indicative of their position what they would want to happen a vote against the brexit deal was a vote for no deal abstaining was valid because there was not enough time to have read the deal before the vote so they should have abstained but labor had a plan that some people either can't or won't see doesn't mean it doesn't exist the political reality is there are huge numbers of swing voters in this country and i mean huge numbers who do not want brexit dragging on this is why they voted for boris johnson in NUMBER_TOKEN it's why their main campaign slogan was get brexit done they spent years crushing the spirits of the british public and like a torture victim they just wanted to sign whatever was put in front of them to make the pain go away brexit has to be the most divisive political debate in english history since the public were asked whether king charles looked better with or without a head but back then the civil war broke up close friendships and even family brexit has done the same just the debate has ruined people's lives and up until now not enough realized how much damage the consequences would do as well they saw the consequences that the debate was doing has been worse than the consequences brexit would do starmah said from the very start that people were sick of brexit
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