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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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Rory Stewart needs our help! Yes, he's a Tory. Yes, his Brexit position is murky. But he is heads shoulders knees and toes better than the rabble making up the rest of the leadership race, and a trillion miles from the sewer occupied by Boris Johnson.
*This* Boris Johnson...
Not suggesting voting for him. You don't even have to like him! But please open the door to nuance. Not all the leadership contenders are equal. Not all will cause equal damage. I believe that Rory Stewart is the only one who would listen to experts. Got to be worth something...
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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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Just absurdly good. Rory Stewart shows more humanity in 30 minutes than Theresa May has managed in 3 years. There are no guarantees. In the end he may disappoint. But it's impossible not to keep alive that flickering hope that somehow he will progress.
If your first reaction is to look to his voting record, that's fair. But please bear in mind that's his record as a loyal MP voting on someone else's policy programme. After you listen to him, even for a few minutes, it's clear things would be very different if he were in charge.
And if the hang up is Brexit, I'll be blunt: I'm worried about that too. Rory Stewart is not yet saying the right things. But realistically:
A) If he were too Remain now he would have no chance at all.
B) I believe he is willing to listen, learn and adapt when the time comes.
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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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Far from easy, and beset by dozens of issues I'm sure, but if the LibDems and Greens could somehow combine forces (properly, I mean, not via a cobbled together pact) they could completely rewrite the history of British politics!
It would have to start with putting Caroline Lucas in charge of Environmental policy, and focusing a huge amount of energy on the topic, and build on that somehow.
Now my idea may be unworkable, naive, impractical, impossible. But if your argument is "Why should the LibDems or Greens compromise on anything when they can achieve power alone?" you really, really need to wake up to the real world. Things have changed, yes - but not that much!
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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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In Dominic Raab's new leadership video he talks about "leading us out at the end of October with a WTO deal"... shame no such beastie exists, then, isn't it?
Mind you, the video also talks about Welsh lamb, and there is copious evidence that a no-deal Brexit would be cataclysmic for that industry...
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