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Despite the risks, Corbyn has to come out fast and strong for Remain/Reform - stop the Brexit chaos and rebuild Britain instead. My @guardian column: 1/ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
@guardian 2/ The shadow Cabinet has the evidence: we're in four-party political fragmentation and Labour needs to be at the head of the progressive majority in Britain... but the risks of this turn are real...
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
@guardian 3/ Forget soft Brexit... we tried it, and we tried to hold the electorate together with economic radicalism but it didn't work. Fight what's in front of us: a right/far-right alliance theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
@guardian 4/ Tomorrow's shadow Cabinet should seize the initiative: commit to a Remain/PV line and "consult" on that... otherwise Labour gets a wasted summer of introversion... theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
@guardian 5/ The Scots and Welsh Labour parties, the European PLP and the majority of the PLP want this change of line now... theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
@guardian 6/ Of course the best thing would have been not to slump from 40% to 22%... but that would have involved actually listening to the polling evidence - now it's crystal clear: we don't go from 22% to 40% without a big, new offer to progressive voters... theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
@guardian 7/ Sanders and @AOC show that, from a clear basis in progressive values, you can reach out to the poorest and marginalised working class communities... "here's what we believe in and here's our offer"... theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
@guardian @AOC 8/ I don't agree with @tom_watson that Labour should become cheerleaders for the EU. It is flawed and needs radical reform... and we need to spell out what changes to the Lisbon Treaty we would fight for if we Remain theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
@guardian @AOC @tom_watson 9/ Finally, to the people in denial: we will soon be up against an electoral pact of Farage and Johnson... the Trump-isation of Britain with fewer checks and balances. What then? theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
@guardian @AOC @tom_watson 10/ Arendt called what we are fighting - "the alliance of the elite and mob"... we need an alliance of the left and centre to defeat them. I don't want a commemorative plate for another glorious left defeat... for the sake of the planet we need to win. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Paul Mason
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I don't agree with all of @tom_watson speech on Labour and Remain but it's a useful intervention: I want to stay in the EU despite the Lisbon and Maastricht treaties, whose economic results are killing the idea of Europe... 1/
2/ I want a second referendum because, with parliament paralysed, it's the only way to reverse the first - and to let us decide on real options, not the fantasy options of 2016...
3/ I want to stay in the EU because May's deal gives UK less sovereignty than we have now, and No Deal/WTO hands the NHS over to American privateers... but Eatson is right on one thing...
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Paul Mason
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I agree with Jeremy that the Second Referendum is "some way off" but on what planet is the Withdrawal Agreement renegotiable before 31 October? They've disbanded the A50 team in Brussels... 1/ theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
2/ Yes we want a General Election to stop a No Deal on 31 October, but what will Labour's position in that election be? The fight is now No Deal vs Remain, surely? In any case, Labour conference will change this position ... and...
3/ Labour activists will spend the Summer taking the fight against xenophobia and racism into the working class communities Farage is trying to poison - and rebuild support among those that couldn't vote for us last Thursday.
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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/…
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1) There is one reason why remainers have "bashed Corbyn" and its this

Because its always been obvious that Labour represented a large & growing Remain group, and that Corbyn was pro #Brexit, working against that Remain attitude

It's not rocket science
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I've read him saying "we can't stop it"

I saw him post "as we leave the EU..." the day after 750k marched for a #PeoplesVote

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I've seen him playing the "immigrants taking our jobs" line
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