Published: 12 November 2019
Last updated: 4 March 2024
FOR MOST PROGRESSIVE-MINDED, remain-leaning folk, is it even a dilemma? I’m not sure. To them the logic must seem simple and straightforward: they want to eject a cruel and useless government and stop Brexit, and that means denying Boris Johnson a majority and replacing him with Jeremy Corbyn, who will end austerity and hold a second referendum. Job done.
I wish it were as simple as that for me. But it’s not.
For more than four years, Britain’s Jews have waited for the moment when one of these revelations would prove too much
Because while I want desperately to avoid Brexit, and while I have nothing but contempt for Johnson and his hard-right party, the prospect of Prime Minister Corbyn fills me with dread.
Not, I stress, the prospect of a Labour government, committed to spending billions on schools, hospitals and houses – Britain needs that badly – but specifically the notion of Corbyn and his inner circle running the country.
The thought of it prompts in me, and the overwhelming majority of the community I grew up in, a fear that we have not known before.
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