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No idea what the Daily Express is smoking, but the two ideas that a post-no deal Brexit trade deal with Biden's USA might be more economically damaging than one with Trump's, and that a subset of Remainers share some blame for a no deal Brexit, are both defensible positions.
It's simply impossible to overstress the foolishness in assuming that because Biden is clearly the better choice for US President, that makes him a good person, or your friend, or that his presidency would mean the world has turned a corner.
If anything, the fact he's actually competent, and harder to just buy off on a personal level, means I expect he'll be much more effective in squeezing us for all we're worth.
I mean, I presume the Express is just preparing the way for when they have to claim Brexit only went wrong because of Remainers being mean AND the EU being mean AND the US being mean, but none of that means the UK's economy will have dodged a bullet if Biden wins.
It's also fair to point out that there is a lot of blame to spread around Remainer circles for the fact we're about to crash out without a deal. Because it was Remainers who both torpedoed the two deals that actually got made... 1/2
...*And* who refused to work with Corbyn to create a scenario under which a more left-wing deal could have been negotiated. 2/2
The refusal to fight every single iteration of Brexit in the hopes it would eventually be defeated in its entirety was understandable, and for a while I subscribed to it. But it was a very high-risk strategy, entered into knowing it was a very high-risk strategy, and it failed.
And that's our failure. It does no good to point out we screwed up in the context of circumstances we never wanted. Imagine trying to claim none of Labour's tactical/strategic mistakes in 2019 mattered, because no-one in Labour had wanted the Tories to win in 2017.
(Before the obvious replies, yes, I've argued repeatedly that the major reason Labour lost in 2019 was because of an unprecedentedly hostile and mendacious media. That doesn't mean I think they played a perfect game, or that their imperfections can be wished away or excused.)
