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The Tories are slowly realising that institutional Islamophobia might be a PR problem for them. They haven’t done anything about it for years not because they didn’t know about it, but because they calculated they could get away with it. That’s it.
We should never get into a trade-off between Islamophobia & antisemitism, but it’s hard to imagine a Shadow Cabinet minister making jokes about ultra-Orthodox Jewish clothing as Boris Johnson did about burka. He then got off scot free. Tories turned a blind eye because they could
Ultimately, it should not surprise us that the party which promoted a hostile environment for the non-white and non-British born should have cultivated a welcome environment for racists and racism at the same time
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Interesting piece here. The only calculus now for the government is: how many ERG MPs would rather have a ‘vassal-state’ backstop (ie approve May’s deal) over extension/referendum, and how many Labour MPs will take May’s deal when she has given them absolutely nothing in return?
For either side approving May’s deal is a humiliation. Hard Brexiters have determined that May’s deal is not Brexit and not what they voted for, because it keeps us in the customs union and removes all our oversight, and involves £39bn for nothing in return. How can they endorse?
ERG that vote for deal will perhaps say ‘at least we leave’. But don’t underestimate what good Communists Mogg et al are. Could be strongly tempted to vote against May’s deal and risk Remain to become martyrs and say Brexit would have been a success if only it had been tried
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Amid schadenfreude of May’s inevitable humiliation, remember she’s still trading in fantasy. 30 June gives no time at all to hold ref & hardly any time to ratify a better deal. Will someone please be brave and mature enough to acknowledge we must stand MEPs in European elections?
I honestly can’t understand why this is such a dreadful obstacle. If we’d triggered A50 in 2018 we’d be halfway through process and legally bound to stand candidates. Who cares? Let them take seats and if necessary leave. It’s a minor inconvenience. Burning the economy is worse.
The country’s political priorities are completely unhinged. We’ve set the country on fire but are still pretending everything is normal and we can think about rourine problems in the same way. We can’t. It’s too late to save face. Let’s rather save people’s jobs and livelihoods.
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We use the word outrage too often - but this is a genuine fucking outrage.
May has confirmed her strategy is to run down the clock so, at the last minute, MPs are left with a choice between her preposterous deal and the nation-destroying wreck of no deal at all: all the control taken back from the British people and given to her alone.
There is no possibility whatsoever that a deal and all necessary legislation can be ratified in 17 days between 12 March and exit day. Parliament has procedures and democratic oversight for precisely this reason: to stop miserable autocrats like May.
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