andrewmne.bsky.social
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Wait till he finds out who took a bribe to circumvent London's planning laws.
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That's a very strange account. Like someone pretending to be a bot.
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UK tried the same thing. Spoiler: it failed.
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You're not the President of the US ,are you? The way you talk crap so confidently had me wondering.
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Was Cummings working for him then?
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He's admitted it now. In his usual tetchy, permanent-victim manner.
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Perhaps "Brexitism" would be better- the belief that the 2016 vote gave right wingers the mandate for their whole ideology, in the name of "will of the people." I think that took a critical blow yesterday.
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The reset is all the sorts of things brexiters were assuring us in 2016 we'd still have if we left. The ones they shouted " Project Fear" at when anyone suggested we'd lose them.
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Babycham for " the Ladies."
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Will Farage become their Trotsky? " If he'd been in charge , we'd have had a true Brexit."
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The day reality woke up.
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They will get madder, but a big reason for that will be there'll only be the maddest left. Things like youth mobility had good levels of support even among ReFUK voters.
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I think this is a turning point for them as well as EU/UK relations. Ranting at sensible, really pretty uncontroversial reforms means they've had the curtain pulled back- and that they pulled it back themselves.
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Death throes.
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I think there's a lot in that. They see 'brexit betrayed" as a much easier position to take than having to engage with the reality of having to work with a massive trading partner on the doorstep. Their problem is that the majority of the electorate support this "betrayal."
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Then let them rant. Aligning back towards the EU is backed by every poll since at least 2021. Enjoy their incontinent rage.
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I think in the long-term,brexit as betrayal is far more useful to them as a concept than anything concrete it might have delivered. And I think Farage realised that well before we left.
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It shows they've no interest in outcome, only in posturing.
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When it comes to grievance collecting, you have to salute their indefatiguability .
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The ultras are the Leninists of the 21st century. Ideological purity trumps everything. An ideology they struggle to communicate even to themselves.
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Useful stuff. It shows people trying to forget about brexit just how unhinged, fanatical and inflexible those who dragged us into a hard leave were.
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It's always useful when brexit nutters publicly lose their shit. It reminds everyone just what sort of inflexible , dishonest fanatics those who dragged us out of the EU were. It actually makes rejoining easier when the time comes.
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They could have diverged a lot more if they wanted to. They were terrified of the consequences. "Self-harm" they called them.
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These are the same Tories so scared of applying their own food standards they repeatedly put off implementing the customs checks they had signed up to.
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Yes. She stymied herself by being so explicit she would never allow one.
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If her deal was so good, she could have put it to a confirmatory referendum.
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Or they should have agreed to a confirmatory referendum when a specific leave deal could have been voted on.
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Not sure about the why, but we do know the how.
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Anyone remember during the campaign, when his posts briefly became relatively grammatical and coherent? His obviously taken back control of his social media.
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Tim Not Very Nice But Very Dim.
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He also has ,or at least had ,a reputation for being ruthless. But I'm not sure how much more evidence he needs that this isn't working. He's already had ten years watching the Tories wander into oblivion using the same tactics.
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Fake news. Corgis are infamous wind-up merchants.
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That's it. Starmer is better than this. Not necessarily morally, but as a political operator. It's like he's franchised out to people making the right noises ,but not a clue in practice.
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It's basically the same " they need us more than we need them" bollocks of referendum. Leavers say," we need to move on from brexit," but THEY are the ones stuck in 2016.
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From what I remember, the Tories tried the same divide and rule tactic. If anything, it united the EU even more strongly.
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They'll grow back.
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Then why are Labour making the same mistakes that destroyed the Tories?
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It's a fake account. Some of these responses are using the same PayPal link.
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In this case at least, the meaning of your communication is the response you get.
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The Good Law Project in Britain gets the same treatment from the tabloids.
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It's enough to give their supporters a comeback. That's all it needs to do. Doesn't matter that it's a stupid comparison. It's one they can make to stop them having to think any more deeply about the blatant corruption.
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It's ironic that he went into Number 10 with a reputation as a control freak.
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As @peterfoster.bsky.social points out here. It's consistent. They've continually shied away from the tough choices they and the electorate need to confront.
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Seriously ,if he wants to backtrack on this, the time to scapegoat McSweeney and get rid is now. Starmer did have a reputation for ruthlessness at one time.
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It was a Roman speech.
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Farage set a trap and Starmer walked right in. The very same trap he'd seen the Tories walk into.
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"I 'ate you, (Dawn) Butler."
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Everyone's talking about Reform, but this also has worrying Cummings-like overtones. Not just in the " taking back control," but in wrecking a problematic sector- care- in the blind hope desperation will produce something different.
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A landmark in Starmer's career, but not the one he thinks it is.
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Not just care homes. Home care as well- which will put further pressure on residential.