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Paddy Docherty
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Two crucial reasons why the anti-Johnson resistance will definitely win in the end, if we fight (short thread) 😠✊ #stopthecoup #RevokeA50 #stopboris 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺
1) The No Deal freaks are weak: the current attempt at suspending Parliament is an admission of failure – they do not have the parliamentary numbers to pass their keynote legislation. #stopboris #StopTheCoup #revokeA50 🇪🇺
Johnson is a lazy, ill-prepared chancer who is already completely out of his depth. Cummings is nothing like as clever as he likes to think - he’s winging it too. They’re unprincipled chancers, NOT strategic masterminds. 🤪 #resist
2) Secondly, look to the crucial work by @EricaChenoweth: she says that on average 3.5% of the population need to be active in the streets in order to topple a brutal dictatorship.
If 3.5% can bring down a Pinochet or a Milosevic, we can readily bring down a Johnson… Get active, get in the streets and this tinpot trumplackey will NOT defeat us. 😠✊ #resist #stopboris #StopTheCoup 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺
Here’s a valuable piece from @EricaChenoweth about civil resistance. 😠✊ #resist #StopTheCoup #stopboris 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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