davebentley58.bsky.social
Recently retired Brit living in Belgium. Know a bit about automotive and IT, more about Football and Cricket
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This a very clear sighted piece, but it is not new. The key points have been clear to many on the centre left for years. Ceding ground to Farage and treating him as the main opposition does not hurt him, it empowers him. The deep mystery is why those close to Starmer appear not to see it.
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I accept some of what you say, especially the divisiveness of referendums. BUT .. Starmer is already seen by many as underhand and untrustworthy. Rejoining by stealth will be easy to pin on him. Labour has to be open and positive about why trade and other links to Europe make life better in UK.
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Problem is if you treat links to Europe like a dirty secret Farage and his mates will go berserk and claim you are betraying people behind their back. The EU is not just transactional, it has a strategic and even moral purpose that needs to be explained.
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Someone has to be brave enough to say we welcome all legal immigration and genuine asylum seekers, but we will not hesitate to deport illegal immigrants and bogus asylum seekers. That will not be popular at either extreme but is the only position that actually makes sense.
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Surely it can’t be just me that thinks this bizarre mixture of sickly nostalgia, celebrity, the Royal Family and the BBC is one day going to end very badly.
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This is so f***ing obvious I don’t see how anyone with a basic grasp of politics or human behaviour doesn’t see it. Presumably McSweeney thinks he has polling evidence that moving right helps Labour, but he will be proved terribly wrong. Moving to the right doesn’t challenge Farage, it helps him!
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There won’t we a clear choice. This is Britain and there will never be a choice just more ‘fudge’. It’s our fate to be caught between Europe and America and suffer the consequences.
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Surely the biggest take out of last night is that it’s all self obsessed gibberish. I’ve had an idea about tax on car loans, I was great looking when I was young, Here’s a hat. Looking for coherent policy that can be analysed amongst all this is absurd.
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So it’s alright to nick it is it?
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The problem is that to believe that the Le Pen judgement is ‘good’ but Erdogan imprisoning his rival is ‘bad’ you have to believe French courts are independent of government but Turkish courts are not. That may be largely true .. but to most people it sounds a very technical and boring question.
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Of all the nonsense to come out of Silicon Valley in the last 25 years, ‘move fast and break things’ is the most pernicious. It dresses up vandalism as progress.
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As I understand it the ‘plan’ is that Europe / Ukraine will spend a few weeks in deep deliberation deciding what they would like to happen. They will then explain to Trump who will decide it is better than his idea and will then in turn explain it to Putin who will accept. Anyone see any problems?