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May 27, 2019 • 10 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
THREAD: Why Labour should back Remain/Reform and fight for a general election... my Guardian column just out:
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
2/ But Labour supporters have to look reality in the face. Since December, Corbyn and his advisers have got the Brexit strategy badly wrong. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
3/ Seumas Milne, Karie Murphy and Ian Lavery MP oversaw this fiasco. The strategy was wrong, the execution was wrong, the comms were wrong. Lavery even defied the whip. If we want to win, they should be replaced by politicians and professional strategists
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
4/ To renew Labour’s electoral alliance the party needs to unite around the strategy of remain and reform in Europe. It needs to tell voters honestly: it’s time to scrap Brexit and rebuild Britain instead. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
5/ Those of us who want a new strategy must acknowledge the challenge it will pose in former industrial areas. We need more working class politicians on the front bench, plain speaking about crime, drugs, anti-terrorism and defence... theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Being seen to deliver Brexit loses votes from progressive voters and wins none back from more socially conservative ones. That’s exactly what a leaked internal poll by Hope Not Hate and the TSSA union told Corbyn back in February. It was ignored.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
7/ We must decide what radical social democracy stands for. If it includes human rights defenders like Keir Starmer alongside Modi fans like Barry Gardiner it's an alliance of convenience, not an ism... theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
8/ Crass bureaucratic practice, ignoring negative polls because they are "Tory owned", briefing against comrades via Squawkbox, accusations of a coup - it's all from a wearyingly familiar playbook... theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
9/ There's a new situation. It's now hard Brexit versus Remain. The space for soft Brexit is gone. With every day the electorate asks "are you for or against Brexit" - as Brexit morphs into a xenophobic neo-colonialist project - we miss the chance to fight...
10/ The Labour right are clearly mobilising a new coup vs Jeremy Corbyn now. I will defend him unconditionally - but for advisers who don't listen, and suppress dissent, there has to be a price for failure. ENDS - read my column here...
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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3/ In the election, I heard people in leafy, Green supporting areas of Bristol come out of £2m houses and say "I cannot support Labour because you are in favour of growth"... so today's pro-worker Budget is a •choice• the Greens could never deliver...
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