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Jun 4, 2020 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
Jacob Ress-Mogg speaking now in parliament about the difficulty of the lockdown and describing how he is thinking of asking nanny (who is “of course” part of his household) to cut his hair which “has never been longer”.

I sometimes think UK 2020 is like P G Wodehouse on acid.
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Again this is not a parody tweet it was on TV and quite a few MPs and media tweeted about it.
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Get nanny on the job.

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Nick🇬🇧🇪🇺 Profile picture
Feb 20
Putin’s logic is completely sound & rational.
Much of what's written about the conflict is simply wrong.
There's no danger of some new invasion..simply as the invasion already started 8 years ago.
Roughly 15% of Ukraine remains held by Russian military.

& the West accepted this.
Since 2014 the UK has consolidated London as the center of Russian finance, residence & education for the elite families of Putin’s regime, while US had the most pro Putin govt in West under Trump.

Russia supported Brexit & Russians the biggest donors to the ruling Tories.
Then Putin saw the West simply abandon Afganistan - The US's major foreign policy undertaking of the last 20 years...in a matter of days.

What was Putin supposed to think?
That the US was committed to sending US soldiers to die in Ukrainian areas with large Russian populations?
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Jan 4
This is a strange post from someone I greatly admire @Femi_Sorry

The genius of “Making brexit work” is it reinforces again & again that it’s not working.
How to make Brexit work?
Easy “reduce Brexit problems”
How?
Soften Brexit in areas 1st that even leavers don’t mind…
There’s plenty areas where Brexit is not just damaging but where 90% of the population simply don’t care.

1. SPS/agri standards
2. Erasmus
3. N Irish protocol

By moving on these you force Tories to defend the “indefensible & unloved”.

And you sell this as practical solutions.
These are “easy sells”.
There’s literally no downside.

You sell this as “ending the chaos of Johnson’s Brexit”.
But politically at first you need to get the population with you - are they ready for instant rejoining single market?
Not yet - but a better softer Brexit yes.
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Jan 3
This Ladies & Gentlemen is a “loaded poll”.

It’s expertly done.
Very deftly done.
So deftly done so that many won’t even notice.

And as someone who’s worked with polling companies here’s how you know..
Most polls are binary to give the most clear honest result.

eg.
Do you think leaving the EU is

1. A good idea
2. A bad idea

Now sometimes you want middle option(s) to reflect more possibilities/complexity.

This is fine, but here’s what you don’t do..never do..
You NEVER emotionally load pill questions. Just never do this. It’s completely unethical.

So look at the questions.
1. The pro Brexit question is clear & short
2. The remaining question tho isn’t just rejoin - it’s “as soon as possible”

..and the 3rd question..
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Jan 3
While it’s an article of faith among many anti Brexiters that Brexit is essentially merely a conspiracy to smuggle through ultra right wing economic policies…this can disguise the fact that if it’s is such a conspiracy…it’s a very badly run one.

- a small thread -
Whiles there’s no doubt that much of the impetus for Brexit came from the neo liberal right one of the less discussed issues is that it’s failing EVEN in those terms.

For many reasons…
1. The irony of Brexit is that it shines a light on changes a UK govt makes post Brexit. That many didn’t notice before.

The UK has always been more deregulated than other EU states - but now those that disagreed with Brexit focus on every change made to hold govt to account.
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Jan 3
+UPDATE+

A QUARTER of the entire Parliamentary language training budget for 650 MPs is spent on just one MP - Daniel Kawczynski.

And yet:
1. Kawczynski is already a fluent Polish speaker
2. His Shrewsbury constituency contains few Polish speakers

parliament.uk/site-informati…
The parliamentary language training scheme was set up principally to help MPs with large numbers of voting constituents who have limited English.

But Shrewsbury’s Polish community is relatively small with majority non voting as they are Polish speaking non voting 🇵🇱 citizens.
Also communication shouldn’t be a problem as not only is the English language ability in the young Britain resident Polish community relatively very high…

…but Daniel Kawczynski is already fluent in Polish anyway.
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Jan 1
Of course most of my friends on here know this already.

But it’s good to see this out in the open.

This is the strategy - it’s about LibDems & Labour not getting in each other’s way.
And “voting efficiency”.

It’s all coming together.

theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
The target is to get the 30 candidates already set up soon before other constituencies and to fight them “like by-elections”.

Worth remembering that should the LibDems prove successful in just these 30 seats than this is already 50% of the way to knocking out the Tory majority.
With these 30 seats the plan is for “go easy” action by Labour to clear the path for tactical voting understanding.

I will be focussing on these 30 seats intensely in the 1-2 years before the election.

This is doable guys!

We need remainers, Labour & LibDems to help out here.
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