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@IanDunt
Aug 12, 2019 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Great admirer of Caroline Lucas, but putting a gender restriction on a govt preventing no-deal is profoundly unhelpful. There is simply no connection between that subject and the one we are discussing.
This is the most important thing MPs will ever do. It's the fight of their lives and they will be judged on it forever. They should be in the business of making a govt to prevent no-deal easier, not applying additional conditions on it.
Lucas has been one of the most impressive figures since Brexit - smart, testing emotionally intelligent messaging, well-judged. This is pretty much first wrong step I've seen her take. Hope it gets dropped.

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Jul 7
Let's have an honest conversation about the election result: No party should secure 63.2% of MPs on 33.7% of the popular vote. And that's as true for Labour as it was for the Tories. shorturl.at/Yl3FK
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Many seemingly contradictory things can be true at the same time. 1) the election result is a triumph for the forces of reason and progress 2) The Labour vote is the consequence of a conscious and extremely efficient campaign 3) this result is democratically intolerable.
We should also be honest about something else, uncomfortable though it is. Reform deserved more seats. They got 0.8% of MPs on 14.3% of the popular vote. The Lib Dems got 11.1% of MPs on 12.2% of the popular vote. That's not right.
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Jul 4
First, we've no idea if that Reform number is right. Second, come on people what's the matter with you. After 14 years of the most egregious reactionary horror, we're about to get one of the most progressive parliaments in history.
Everything changes now. Everything. Not just the policies, but much deeper than that.
The values and the personalities of the people in charge will be entirely different. You might not like every position they adopt, but they will hold a bundle of decent, humane, tolerant progressive instincts which are completely opposed to what we've seen for the last decade.
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Jun 4
Right. TV debates. Basically the worst possible way to spend an evening. I'm starting with this. I do not rule out escalating to rum and possibly arsenic. Image
Are they in some kind of 90s video game?
Sunak has a difficult message here: Starmer will do this (BAD) but also we don't know what he'll do (ALSO BAD). He really needs to settle for one or the other. It's rather a struggle to convince people of both contradictory things at the same time.
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May 29
So here's a nice story, in case you needed one.

A little while back, Gary Frank, one of the greatest superhero artists alive, put my book on the cover of his comic. Image
My brain basically collapsed with joy. When I had put it back together, I asked him if I could buy the original art.

He said yes - except that he refused to sell it to me and instead asked that I make a donation to Veterans Aid.
Original comic art is worth a lot, especially for someone at this level - 100s of £, often more. It's a preposterously generous thing for him to have done.
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May 22
Fucking hell is he really going to rely on furlough. Might as well admit he's accomplished nothing in No.10.
It's raining on him. It's like an ITV drama about a doomed campaign.
You can barely hear the prime minister on the telly from the sound of Things Can Only get better playing from a sound system in the background.
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Apr 22
I'm very sorry to hear Andrew Mitchell sell his soul on the radio right now. A formerly decent man with knowledge of his subject area who must know the nonsense he is spewing. He should hang his head in shame.
He insists there are functioning safe passages for Afghans to the UK through ARAP. Wrong. In reality, countless thousands of Afghans have been let down and betrayed by Britain. But even if it was true, you could then easily accept the amendment.
He suggests, in a truly lunatic argument, that calls for an independent assessment of Rwanda's safety verge on racism. In fact, they maintain some sense of objectivity by preventing the government from defining reality.
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