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Aug 28, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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Breaking news: the prime minister, Boris Johnson, will reportedly seek to suspend Parliament
The speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, is thought to oppose the move
Talks are under way to form an interim government of national unity
Remainers are rallying to Parliament's defence
"Bollocks to Brexit!"
We await further developments in this fast-moving situation

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May 7, 2023
There are probably still some "outside left" election results that I haven't seen/posted, but here are a few impressionistic reflections based on the ones I have
I would say the vote was usually between 0.7% and 7%, & when it was outside that range it wasn't far outside it. I haven't seen any left candidate quite getting to 10% this time around, although one or two came very close. 2% or 3% was typical
The percentages are sometimes difficult to interpret bc they're in multi-seat wards where each voter gets two or three votes. If there's one left candidate, & they get one of those three, there's no real way of telling what the voter would have done in a single-seat election
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Mar 10, 2023
What about the unfinished business of 2011? Image
The AV referendum. Don't say you'd forgotten the AV referendum
I knew Yes was winning in Oxford as soon as I walked into the polling station. Never in your life seen such a room of yes to AV voters Image
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Jun 10, 2022
There was no evidence in 1934 that a party supporting Scottish independence would succeed. And it didn't: the SNP didn't get a Westminster seat until 1945 (an anomalous by-election), didn't win one at a GE until 1970, didn't get a majority of Scottish Westminster seats until 2015
But would Scottish independence be closer now or further away if the SNP's founders had decided instead to lobby realistically through the Liberal Party for achievable demands? Y'know, I think it just might be further away
If you want radical change (& you don't have friends among the officer corps) then you need to win the argument—you've got to persuade people to support an agenda that they currently (if they've considered it at all) think is wrong or just impossible
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Mar 21, 2022
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[...] When the special operation [...] began, most politicians, commentators, journalists, & ordinary members of the public in both Russia & Ukraine said with one voice that nobody had >
> been expecting it. Judging by the long faces of Russia's top leaders, as we saw them on TV, even many of them hadn't seen it coming. It was only specialists in military economics among whom the news didn't cause any shock, or even particular surprise [...] >
> This table shows the Russian Federation's defence spending from 1998 to 2020, in billions of roubles [NB. Russian uses the comma as a decimal point—EG] >
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Mar 20, 2022
t.me/rtpbooks/877
The anarchist publishing cooperative Radical Theory and Practice reports that the graphic artist Pavel Korshunov (a pseudonym) has taken his own life. He had fled persecution in Russia, was denied asylum in Ukraine, & escaped to Poland when the war started
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RTP write: "We hate the state for making people hide under the threat of prison & torture. We hate the state for breaking our comrades' mental health. We hate the state for creating borders that are difficult for many of us to cross. For the fact that inside these borders we >
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Mar 19, 2022
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> Russia is the vehicle of justice on earth & curses nationalist regimes & their puppetmasters in the West. Well, let him. Let them round up students & state employees for their rallies, buy support with cash & entertainment & songs by 'stars'. We celebrate a different 18 March >
> The day of the uprising of the Paris workers who established the Commune. They opened a new path for humanity, the path of internationalism & the brotherhood of the workers against their oppressors [...] What will tomorrow bring, regardless of the special operation? >
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