GNU awakes

Good news from the Observer of an alliance between G Brown and S Khan, in the article at least. The article is lead news, summarising the articles Brown and Khan write in the Opinion section -- the news is that Remainers have views. It's hard to disentangle whether Brexit drives the whole thing for Broon, or is a subsidiary to the lofty aims of defeating nationalism [he was Chancellor during the very non-nationalistic Iraq War, of course] and keeping the Union intact:

only...as an outward-looking, tolerant, fair-minded and pragmatic people – can Britain recover its cohesion and common purpose. These precious ideals could not survive the divisiveness and chaos of a no-deal Brexit. To prevent the rise and rise of dysfunctional nationalism the first step is to stop no-deal in its tracks.”

Sadiq Khan, the London mayor, becomes the most senior Labour figure to call on his party to consider backing a national-unity government to stop no-deal Brexit. He suggests that, while the “starting point for any conversations” about a unity government should be that it is led by Jeremy Corbyn, other options should not be excluded.

The coup plotters still seem a bit disorganised:

The pleas from two of Labour’s biggest beasts come after a week in which anti no-deal MPs have been unable to agree who should head a temporary government if Johnson were to lose a vote of no confidence in September. [Far and away the most concerning issue for politicians, I suspect]  Rebels trying to stop no-deal now regard an attempt to change the law as the most likely first avenue explored to stop it going ahead.

Juncker helps things along:

Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, warned this weekend that Britain would be the “big losers” from a no-deal outcome. “If it comes to a hard Brexit, this is in no one’s interest, but the British would be the big losers,” he told the Austrian paper Tiroler Tageszeitung. “They pretend it’s not like that, but it will be … We have made it clear that we are unwilling to renegotiate the exit agreement.”

That's probably enough to convince the Observer that we should simply put the whole silly business behind us.

Meanwhile, a further lurch down the transitive hate road is provided by this:

Boris Johnson’s controversial enforcer, Dominic Cummings, an architect of Brexit and a fierce critic of Brussels, is co-owner of a farm that has received €250,000 (£235,000) in EU farming subsidies, the Observer can reveal.[That is the gross sum, it seems over ten years.I thought Remainers saw gross figures as 'lies'] ...The revelation opens Cummings up to charges of hypocrisy, as writing on his blog, he has attacked the use of agricultural subsidies “dreamed up in the 1950s and 1960s” because they “raise prices for the poor to subsidise rich farmers while damaging agriculture in Africa”.

In the other ideological direction W Hutton tries to raise morale, detecting the rise of Reason stirring from its slumber as the EU, a federal UK and stopping climate change all combine together in a unicorn-like:

European Sustainable Union....If we leave the EU, at the heart of the case for rejoining [already!] will be the need to make the greening of our continent a common cause.

The no-deal Brexiters do not have the force behind them, any more than does Trump. They are losers, on the wrong side of history. Better people will enter politics. [petit-bourgeois ones ideally]. Old parties will be rejuvenated: new ones take life. There will be a counter-revolution – it’s already in the making.