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First Corbyn's "nothing to do with me, mate - Brexit, innit" speech, now this...

Labour's capacity to lose elections outstripped only by its inability to understand why it did.

We need an urgent rescue from @jessphillips pronto.
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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There is genuinely an important lesson here in the winning Tory strategy.

At the end of the day, political parties are there to win elections, not to retain an ideological purity. Encroach on enemy territory and pinch the ideas with broad appeal that you can also live with.
Imagine a party with Labour's social conscience, the LibDems' open approach to business and Europe, and the Greens' overarching environmental drive...

It might take a lot of hammering and sawing (and a fair amount of compromise) but it should be possible to make the pieces fit.
Instead of a party "for the many not the few" (or "for the few not the many" Tories) it would be a party for - whisper it guardedly - everyone.

No more pillorying or envying or trying to pull down the rich. Instead, harness their success in the form of fair (not punitive) taxes.
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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Labour leadership contenders:
Jess Phillips
Lisa Nandy
Emily Thornberry
Rebecca Long-Bailey
Angela Rayner
Yvette Cooper
Keir Starmer
RLB is Corbyn's favoured successor. She's the only one I dismissed instantly when reading the list. I guess she'll win. theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
Note: the names on the list are the ones the Guardian cited. It's not *my* list.
My own picks:
Jess Phillips (yes!), Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper. One as leader, all 3 in senior roles. And nobody associated with Corbyn anywhere in the Shadow Cabinet. His poison must go.
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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Labour are "for the many, not the few".

The Tories, though they'll never admit it, lean towards "for the few, not the many".

What we need, in a world of divisions, is a party that's "for everyone". Where the rich don't feel hounded and scapegoated. Where the poor get more help.
A party shorn of extremes, acting at all times to make the UK a better place to be. Part of that is about striving for greater equality, but that cannot be the obsessive, overarching driving force.

Imagine for instance an NHS so good, it obviates the need for private care.
Maybe a pipe dream, but even the well off don't spend money they literally don't have to. They wouldn't be paying for private health care if the NHS offered the same service level and outcomes.

End the politics of envy or of greed. And welcome in the politics of inclusivity.
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Good morning and welcome to another #Brexit thread

I'll be attempting to cover the events that are happening both in the Commons and in the Lords today so this is going to be a long one

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Today is possibly .@theresa_may's last day as PM, if .@BorisJohnson can command a majority (which is in some doubt...)

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