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For one thing, with Vince Cable now in as Liberal Democrat leader, and seemingly committed to a "stay the course" program, even on tuition fees, any chance of a LibDem recovery at the next election is most likely gone-assuming it wasn't going to take another one or two general elections for the voters to even begin to forgive the party for backing Cameron's government.
If the Tories stay in power at the next election because Remainers are campaigning against Labour over not still supporting Remain(as was repeatedly proved, Corbyn campaigned hard for the Remain side in the referendum), it would be too late to work for Remain after that.
Getting the Tories out outweighs all other concerns. And there's no possible alternative Labour leader(or at least none the PLP would allow on a leadership ballot) who'd be both pro-EU AND committee to humane, anti-austerity social democratic values. The ones who'd put fighting to stay in the EU first are all sectarian Blairites as far as I can see; if you know of any of them who actually care about defending the working and non-working poor, I'd like to hear of them.
If you really want to persuade Corbyn to change on that issue(remember, the next election will be the last chance to prevent Brexit), you'd need, I think, to do two things:
1) Persuade him that all Remainers would back a Labour government that stayed in the EU and defied the EU's deficit restrictions(a government that agrees to those restrictions is agreeing to just keep slashing social benefits for the rest of eternity);
2) Make a case for how there'd be any chance for a return of high-paying jobs with union representation in the North of England within the EU;
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