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How can you read this, then continue to make political capital from his death?! @BorisJohnson @Conservatives @CCHQPress
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@BorisJohnson @Conservatives @CCHQPress Think you're clever? People can see how disgusting you really are...
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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Let's get real: an outright Labour majority is impossible at this point.

That means the best potential result from a Labour supporter's perspective must logically now be a hung Parliament in which Labour get to form a government (either minority, or coalition).
To achieve that, they're going to need a good showing from the Libdems, SNP etc. Labour alone, by definition, cannot stop the Tories now.

But that means Labour voters will have to vote tactically in unprecedented numbers for the LibDems in seats the latter are in contention for.
Fail to do so, and that dream of a (coalition/minority) Labour government is dead, and every one of its promises with it.

So what will it be?

The Tories, hard Brexit, and five more years of savage cuts?

Or something better?

The choice is yours. Choose wisely!
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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Simple question: have you seen how high the tax burden is in Sweden?

It's absolutely fine to want world-class services like the Swedes enjoy, but the corollary must be that we should be prepared to pay for them just as much as the Swedes do.

Can't have one without the other.
This is an old article, but I am linking to it because it explains the difference so well. Back then the overall tax burden in the UK was 36.6% of GDP, vs 48.2% in Sweden. That difference if replicated today would mean raising £236 billion a year more tax!
amp.theguardian.com/money/2008/nov…
£236 billion *more* tax per year, every year. That's the price of paying for Sweden-level public services.

So to look to Scandinavia or Austria or other high-tax jurisdictions as examples of what the state can do, without looking at the tax implications, is only half the story!
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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If 6 hospitals will be offered money to upgrade their facilities, and 34 more will share a small pot of cash to begin *planning* their own (as yet unfunded) upgrades, how many NEW hospitals will be built?
Question 2: if you manage to retain 18,500 nurses who are already working for the NHS right now this minute, and recruit 31,500 new nurses as well, how many MORE nurses do you end up with compared to the situation now?
Final question: since the answers to both the previous questions are so clear, simple and obvious, why do the Tories keep repeating lies involving higher numbers than the real ones?
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What an absolutely vile op ed.

The people in Halle are still grieving.

This vile article was written just after the year anniversary of the worst attack on American Jews at Tree of Life Synagogue.

The problem is not with the term #Antisemitism.

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The problem is with the antisemites, there apologists and enablers. They will never accept #Antisemitism is a problem.

Shame also on the website for publishing this utter garbage.
The author belongs to an organisation who does not represent the voice of the vast majority of Jews.

He seeks to make political capital out of a deadly antisemitic attack by suggesting we are all panicking far too much about #Antisemitism.
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To mark the occasion of #LaborDay2019, I will transcribe an interesting, 91-year old #German text on #Marxism that has never entered the #internet before this post of mine. (I tried quite a lot to find the text, to no avail.) I will manually transcribe it, then translate it.
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#BorisJohnson has been accused of lying about claims concerning #Turkey during the #Referendum. My legal team and I are prosecuting @BorisJohnson for the alleged offence of misconduct in public office, in connection with claims he made that the UK 'sends' £350 million to the EU.
2. Mr Johnson is innocent unless proven guilty by a court of law. Please do not comment upon Mr Johnson's innocence or guilt once the case has been initiated with the courts in the coming weeks.
3. Please use respectful and measured language when referring to Mr Johnson, the courts and our case whilst the prosecution case is active. Do not risk being accused of contempt of court.
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Rick Hasen
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There's an excellent chance that tomorrow the Supreme Court will announce it will take up (again) the question whether partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional. Don't take an agreement to hear case as a sign the Court will police gerrymandering. It is actually the opposite. /1
A three-judge district court found that North Carolina's congressional districts were an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. These kinds of cases come up to #SCOTUS on "appeal" not a "cert. petition" and a ruling not to hear an appeal means the lower court got it right. /2
So it's almost impossible to believe that Court won't hear the North Carolina case. Last term the Court ducked the merits in the Wisconsin partisan gerrymandering case. But it is clear that the conservatives on the Court are skeptical federal courts can police gerrymandering. /3
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