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Theresa May's government is falling apart in office. It can only win votes to keep itself in power, and cannot pass the substantive legislation it promised in its manifesto... 1/ so why no constitutional crisis?
2/ The U.K. Brexit Impasse is nothing to do with procedure: the implicit rule is: a neoliberal cannot fall if its replacement is pledged to cancel neoliberalism...
3/ Even in Australia, where Labor is nowhere near leftist, the fossil lobby and the white racists have to cling to power because the change that's coming, as neoliberalism dies, just needs their fingers removed from the levers of power...
4/ And it's coming in the USA: Trump's state of emergency ruse, stripped of its specifics, mirrors the U.K. Tories, clinging to office to save speculative finance and fossil corporations ...
5/ And guess what: almost everywhere liberal "centrists" are the last ditch defence of the system; Chuka and his dud party, Bloomberg, Macron and his police state...
6/ it will take time, but progressive governments will emerge determined to save the planet and a reformed multilateral system... after tonight that's much nearer in Britain....
7/7 In U.K. May will soon face stark choice: No Deal catastrophe that brings down her administration, calling an election or a #FinalSay referendum - all are routes to the end of Tory austerity
