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@IanDunt
Aug 13, 2019 • 5 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Psychological warfare over no-deal masks a strategic vulnerability politics.co.uk/blogs/2019/08/…
But here's a hot tip to keep you warm in the British summer: That poll doesn't show the public support cancelling parliament. And it isn't too late for MPs to stop no-deal.
It is quite profoundly unhelpful for people to become demoralised. And I do wish left, liberal, centrist, general sensible people would get over this psychological instinct about being outmanoeuvred all the time.
We're up against some of the most simple-minded, inadequate political figures I've ever seen. If you can't out-think that, what's the point?
And for the record, critics of no-deal can out-think that. It's Dominic Grieve vs Dominic Cummings on parliamentary procedure. Who do you honestly think is going to come out of that one with a win?

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Oct 31
Really is incredible to think that the Tories announced compensation for victims of two scandals, then did nothing to arrange the money. Labour has had to put aside a massive chunk of the money they secured yesterday to fulfil a promise the previous government made.
You can criticise Starmer and Reeves for all sorts of things - insufficient honesty at the election, insufficient bravery now - but it is astonishing how comprehensively the last government ran the country into the fucking ground.
And this is on the faintly superficial end of things. I'm not even mentioning the asylum policies which froze the system and therefore ate money on accommodation costs, or the totally imaginary spending plans, or the tax cuts they knew we couldn't afford.
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Oct 30
Here we go. Budget is go, people. parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/f2…
OBR document unveiled by Reeves says the previous govt "did not provide the OBR" with all the information available to them and their spring Budget forecast would have been "materially different" if they had.
This is absolutely ferocious knives-out politics. Properly murderous.
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Oct 15
The amount of shit reporting is really off the scale at the moment, coupled with hysterical analysis.
I suppose there's a smell of blood, so journalists are circling for it. But if there's anyone in the world who gives a genuine dried fuck about Taylor Swift's driving arrangements I'd be astonished.
There's a lot going on here. 1) The press has a right-wing bias and broadcasters follow its lead, so media doles out a much harder time to Labour than Tories. We'd probably forgotten the full extent of this.
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Oct 6
For fuck sake. On the basis of what? Nothing at all. Why in God's name would they take this decision.
There'll now be an awful lot of talk about becoming-the-story and lack-of-narrative and press relations. Fine. Whatever. But that wasn't her role. It was to unlock the machine and get things done. The current noise is just the daily nothing-clatter of Westminster life.
The government will require a carefully organised undistractable approach to delivery if it's going to demonstrate improvement. And that won't come from constant briefings and hysteria. It'll come from the missions.
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Aug 3
There's no intellectual debate to be had about what's happening. It's not about immigration, or integration, or Islam. It's about a bunch of violent thugs blaming Muslims for a terrible crime, being instantly disproved, and then continuing with their bullshit anyway.
If you start saying we need to change policy, or reconsider an approach to anything at all on the back of this violence, you are basically legitimising it. You are laundering the reputation of Nazi thugs.
There's really no complexity here at all. They're cunts. The reptile part of the human brain. They threaten the safety of Muslims and Asians in general. They need to be universally condemned by politicians and stamped on hard by police. That's it. That's the response.
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Jul 29
Lots of things can be true at the same time. 1) In opposition, Labour knew the Tories were playing a stupid, irresponsible little game with their future departmental spending & tax cuts. And yet they played along anyway, because it was inconvenient to do otherwise.
2) The figures, particularly on asylum housing costs, were worse than we realised. Labour said wonk and wonk-adjacent critics would change their tune after the statement. They were right. Conservative irresponsibility was, as Reeves says, worse than we thought.
3) The core point is that the Tories basically sabotaged the state. Freezing asylum applications, even though it would cost millions in hotels. Promising tax cuts even though officials were earning them that the prison system was about to collapse. It's truly unforgivable.
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