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Ten things the Labour Party could talk about that would be popular with a large proportion of UK voters. We could start talking about them now.1. There are some institutions
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The problem is: the entire edifice of our democracy is built on the assumption MPs act with honour.If they ever did, they don't now. They know they can get away
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Someone was complaining about Starmer not being pro-Rejoin enough and I was about to add my voice to that when it occurred to me I was being selfish. For people
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1/ I had a great chat this weekend with a friend on Starmer's strategy...https://twitter.com/dasvee/status/1358764527375024131 2/ I raised the point in the first tweet in this thread - Labour feels it
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Why aren't the British people angry? I must have been phenomenally naive in 2016 because I could not believe people would vote for the rightwing project of #Brexit, something no
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I like Corbyn, I really do, but his leadership will be marked more for his dogmatic commitment to the Party, over his better judgement on matter's socialist, and at a
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1. Some thoughts about picking over the bones of the referendum loss.TLDR - get over it, move on, and most importantly, find a better strategy. 2. From an analytical perspective,
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https://www.businessinsider.com/moran-starmer-labour-should-fear-me-lib-dem-leader-2020-6 I, of course, will never vote for a party with 'liberal' in its name. But people I know who approved of Labour shifting left under Corbyn but
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Thread on separate electorates and identity politics (in response to @Aakar__Patel)https://twitter.com/Aakar__Patel/status/1292488417851277313 Identity politics always leads to the reification of identity. We've seen it with caste which
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A lot of people are big mad at @AOC right now because they feel betrayed by her failure to stand up to @SpeakerPelosi and the neolibs or play hardball to
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1/ As always I enjoyed Rafael Behr's Politics on the Couch podcast... but (sorry) I take issue with the arguments he presented for why Labour backed the government's Brexit deal.
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Almost a year ago to the day, Johnson swept to an 80 seat victory in the #GE2019 and then declared “get ready for Brexit”.We now know he meant “get ready
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As a very pro-EU Scot who is broadly in favour of democracy, here are my Arguments against a second referendum; without using the phrase 'once in a generation' The downside
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1/ Deindustrialisation has greatly weakened working class communities and organisations. And that means there is no left-wing sociopolitical counterweight to the power of the super-rich and their political and media
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I know it's fashionable to not put your own views out there because they might make it clear that you have, like everyone, some biases, but as of next year
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1/ Despite the covid massacre and eleven years of economic failure the Tories still command over 40% in the polls. I believe this is because they command an almost entirely
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