Enter, Jezza, stage left.

Remember the heady days of Jezza's election and his big promise that he’d be different? He’d be special. He wasn’t a money grasping Tory in Labour drag like the previous New Labour leadership. He even had an allotment shed and not a tax shelter. Jeremy was going to do all these things that the rank and file of the Labour Party had always wanted. You know, all those things like the abolition of the House of Lords, renationalisation of the railways, taxing the rich to pay to the poor. You know, those things that Labour promised its members and the voters when it was in opposition but which always seem to slip its mind as soon as it got a snifter of power. Finally, after years of broken promises, the glorious new dawn of British socialism was going to be delivered. It would come with a new leader riding on the back of his left wing credentials.

Back in 2015, during the leadership campaign for the Labour party, Jezza made the promise that party policy would be made by the membership and not by him. He forgot to add the caveat, except when the party membership disagreed with him. It’s very easy to pose as a leader who listens to the common folk when the common folk agree with you. It’s not so easy when the membership want something that doesn’t accord with Jezza's plan for the British Parliamentary road to socialism. The majority of the party, or so it seems, does not agree with his strategy for Brexit, but he’s pressing on with it anyway. The Labour party leadership hasn’t changed its ways after all. It’s simply found a new way to dissemble.

To repeat, right now, the membership of the Labour party, and indeed many of the party’s MPs, disagree with Jezza about Brexit. A large majority of Labour voters and Labour members want another EU referendum, but the Labour leader is not for budging in his determination to find yet another obstacle to put in the way of allowing Labour members to determine his Brexit policy. He’s behaving exactly like all those Labour party hacks of previous political generations that he’d sworn to be different from. If the Labour leader has a spirit animal, it would be one of those old stuffed dinosaurs in a museum. It hasn’t displayed any movement or flexibility since the Bolshevik revolution. It’s not that Jeremy is stubborn, it’s just that he thinks his way is the only way. And, in this important respect, he is exactly like Mrs May. What a pair to be at the top of the dung heap that passes for British politics at the moment.