What Momentum thinks about Brexit matters. But is Momentum prepared to ask its members what it really thinks about Brexit? Not yet is the answer, according to Jon Lansman, the group’s founder. And it’s refusal to do so produces a fudge on the hot topic of the day of which the Labour party itself would be proud.
While the group’s World Transformed festival has been a hotbed of discussion on all kinds of issues – socialism, Marxism, anti-Semitism, climate change, to name a few – there’s one topic that isn’t on the menu: Brexit. At least, that is, in so far as coming to a settled position among Momentum members goes. So is this a failure on Momentum’s part? Far from it, according to Lansman, who said that this prevarication is all part of the plan.
Lansman said that because the Brexit negotiations are still stuck in the ‘hypothetical’ stage, now is not the time for the organisation to come to a settled position.
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