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There are lots of people who want Labour to be in government.

But not enough of them want THIS Labour to be in government.

In the 2017 general election Jeremy Corbyn's new-old Labour got 12.8million votes. That was a massive increase on the 9.4m of Ed Miliband and the 8.6m of Gordon Brown.

It still wasn't enough to win power. Corbyn's socialist manifesto of workers on boards, renationalisation of essential services and more spending did not convince the people it needed to.

In fact out of the three, Gordon was the one who came closest to forming a government after coming second. And his brand of socialism was the least extreme.

Official Labour policy is to sit tight and wait for Britain to see things the same way as them. That strategy has not worked once in the entire history of the world.

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There is no way of knowing how many of the 12.8m voted for Corbyn, and how many were voting for a particular MP, for the Labour Party in general, or Just Not Theresa.

But there's a very simple way to find out how political parties get into power. It's called history. And every time, it's when people think the party sees things the same way as them.

There's a lot of popular support for policies like renationalising the railways, despite the fact we have tried everything, nothing works, and the only real solution is to realise that a nation which invented trains cannot operate them competently. Such a policy doesn't add up and is merely a subsidy for the middle-class, but hey-ho it gets votes, whack it in the manifesto.

There's also a lot of popular support for a second vote on Brexit. It should therefore be in the manifesto of any party that wants to be in power. But Corbyn's sturmabteilungspent most of last night trying to stop it becoming a policy.

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On the one hand, 17.4m people voted to Leave the EU. But on the other, they have two parties haggling for their souls already and a third isn't going to get much of a look-in.

And on the other there are 16.1m voters literally going begging, with no-one but Vince Cable sniffing around between nap times.

A YouGov poll found a walloping 70% of people want to stay in the EU and 59% want a second vote. It could get Corbyn 4m extra votes - if added to his last tally that would make him more popular than Tony Blair was in 1997.

A People's Vote survey found last month that 77% of all Labour voters want to remain. Research has shown there are only a handful of Labour Leave seats, and even the North East has abandoned its thumping support for Brexit as the economic costs become clear.

There is, in short, a clear democratic case for Her Majesty's Official Opposition to oppose Brexit. Not just hold a second vote - but campaign, hard, to remain.

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Brexit has proven to be a vote for the impossible. Not only was it influenced by Russian troll factory propaganda, illegal data harvesting and the wholesale breaking of electoral law, but the vast majority of Leavers thought our border with the EU was in the English Channel.

The Northern Ireland border can be either hard or soft. The UK citizens in Northern Ireland voted, in a referendum that Vladimir Putin and foreign billionaires did not fiddle with, for a soft border.

The only alternative is to imagine there's a hard border, and hope that when people-traffickers and drug-smugglers look at 300 miles of hedging they'll say to themselves: "Crikey, all that imaginary barbed wire. We'll never get through, and we haven't even filed the virtual paperwork yet."

Without control of all our borders, Brexit cannot be delivered. We stay in the customs union, the single market, and we have to pay the EU. The slow-dawning realisation of this fact is causing so much panic in the Tory party they're seriously considering another general election just to distract attention.

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Yet when Labour considers the size of the open goal, the distress felt by the goalie who's having bottles of pish hurled at her by her own side, and the impossibility of cooking up a red-packaged fudge that is fundamentally any different to a blue-packaged fudge, it has decided to sit up the other end of the pitch and wait for someone to GIVE THEM THE BALL.

Corbyn's Labour has tried pure socialism. It's not enough.

It has tried deselecting MPs who are not unquestioningly loyal to the leader. That won't be enough, especially when people notice that Corbyn was disloyal for 30 years and got elected every time.

It has suggested turning all businesses into a version of John Lewis, investment banks, and putting profits back into water companies and railways, and done it all not because it would unquestionably work but because it SOUNDS like it might and people always vote for hope.

But on Brexit, Corbyn's Labour offers no alternative. There is no hope of Remain.

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Len McCluskey has insisted any second vote have no option to Remain, despite evidence that 112 constituencies have switched from Leave to Remain.

John McDonnell says there should be no option to Remain and is terrified it could revive UKIP. He does not seem to have noticed it could also revive Labour, which is the only one of the two to have a possibility of power.

Corbyn's position is that he wants a general election, despite losing the last one, despite his policies not being enough, and despite the fact that on the central issue of the day he will offer nothing to voters that is any different to the Tories.

If Labour is to win power, if it is to fulfill its constitutional duty to oppose, and if it is to give democratic voice to the people it was established to serve - the poor, the workers, the oppressed, those the rich ignore, the ones whose minimum-wage jobs are a matter of life and death - then it simply must campaign to Remain.

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And do it properly, this time. Not fanny about on soapboxes at the Islington branch of Waitrose muttering things into its beard.

Labour won't lose its heartlands. It won't lose votes. It won't lose union support and even intravenous adrenaline couldn't save UKIP now.

It will gain power, and it can enjoy the benefit of all the EU opt-outs Britain enjoyed before, an economic revival, a jobs and investment boom, and 20 years of the Tories eating themselves from the toes up.

But if Labour sticks with Brexit, it - and we - are doomed.