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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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Getting beyond a joke! So far (if I've not miscounted) there are set to be:
- 3 BBC programmes
- 2 Sky programmes
- 2 ITV programmes
dedicated to raising the profile of the Tory party by televising their candidates for leadership. @LibDems @TheGreenParty @ForChange_Now @UKLabour
My tuppence worth: I don't see the point of televising anyone other than the final two candidates, because only MPs have a say in whittling down the field before then, so why should people who zero members of the public have a say in selecting get unfettered TV air time?
But instead it's shaping up to be "every night is Tory night"...
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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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"Philip Hammond has become the most senior Conservative to signal he might be prepared to back a second referendum as he left the door open to the possibility of a surprise run to become the next prime minister." Goodness! He might get a lot of MP support. theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
Paradoxically his star is on the ascendant precisely because so many contenders have swerved straight for no deal, leaving the field devoid of people for rational MPs to vote for.
In other words, it's so very Brexit! No room in the empty middle, just extremism or rationalism.
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(This may be daft as it's completely off the cuff based on the student loan news today.) Why not turn student loans into young people loans? In other words, everyone qualifies when they turn 18. Loans would be repaid on the same timeframe/thresholds as students do now.
That would let young people take apprenticeships, internships etc. without worrying where their next meal came from, or pool resources to start a company, or begin saving a deposit for a home, or do any one of a myriad things.
It might be too expensive, too hard to police, too complicated to administer. But it might also be a genuine way of giving everyone a solid start in adult life, regardless of the path they choose.
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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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Petty Sajid Javid proactively vetoes a second Scottish referendum. Pathetic!
Danger is this turns into a "test of strength" for other Tory leadership hopefuls... Will the out-of-touch Tory membership demand "no deal Brexit + no to Scottish referendum" as price of their support?
The slippery slope is forming before our eyes. 10, 11, 12 candidates in the race, each taking a different hardline position. Every time they say something outrageous, the Tory members' eyes light up like New Year fireworks... so every other candidate adopts that position too.
By the end of the leadership race, we may see candidates advocating the death penalty and public flogging. Somewhere along the way, expressing political dissent will have become a crime. Gilead, Pacem and the world of 1984 all rolled into one, then raised to the Nth degree.
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