Thread. But frankly let's simplify this, Labour won a huge majority with a manifesto committing to better EU relations. So now this is being implemented (probably too slowly).
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
This is a very silly headline with a v narrow constituency outside the media classes. Seems esp weird for MoS (quite a shrill pro-Remain voice in 2016) to object in such an OTT voice to closer UK-EU post-Brexit links beyond Windsor within Starmer's red lines (no single market, customs union, FoM)
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I am not convinced that the current electoral system is a true reflection of the country's politics.
Large majorities have often easily been achieved on 40% of the vote. It's always been unrepresentative.
I was countering a specific point made by David Henig.
Perhaps, when you are my age, you will come to understand how language and debate work.
And indeed this has been the case for…I’d need to check past election results, but “many decades” at the least.
I'm not biting on any of Srarmers bait to be honest, but even with my very skeptical take, I never though he'd supply a genocide.
The "win" was entirely beaurocratic.
People voted, in fewer dissillusioned numbers, for anything but this lot.
What they got, was more of the same, with small token geastures to think that anything would actually change.
Laying the ground, for Reform to win next.
This should have been self-evident five years ago.
Sorry to dissapoint.
"We can't afford" is either lies. or economic ignorance.
Either way, the result is more of the same.
UK also approved, (from memory,) 34 new arms export licences to Israel, since the ICC ruling that Israel was engaged in genocide.
Which will have more effect on the ground?
I leave that to you to weigh.
Apparently there has to be an investigation.
IT's for courts to decide, not politicians (if it's genocide.)
And in a pitiful, weak tone, "but what more can we do?"
Honestly it's a good job I wasn't there.
Sadly there's no undoing most of the damage.
I suspect the course for the UK is already set, and I don't think I've ever been more disillusioned.
Fearing what this might mean, regarding tax avoidance for example, they're starting to lash out.
As Leave readership dies, unless they pick up the younger Reform market, they'll pivot bc they have to. For now, their fight is to be more Leave than the Express.