Yes I had a bit of a sink when I saw that Lumie - but for our purposes now, he is the only politician so far of any persuasion who has spoken out and with some passion. He's promoting the petition also. No doubt it will support his anti Eu stance, but , well what then? Labour have been silent or embarrassingly ill informed.
Those old left/right certainties are looking ever more shaky aren't they! This whole issue has profoundly affected many of my beliefs - or rather, made me question more closely what some of my lazy, cosy, smug assumptions were and what the logical consequences of those assumptions are.
I'm tribe-less now. I'm broadly of the left on most but not all things. I no longer buy The Guardian. I'm a wiser, I think, but also sadder, and rather frightened old glimmer.