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Sep 9, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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The key question - the hard question - is the one @jemgilbert has asked elsewhere: why were Labour likely to lose in December, regardless of its position on Brexit?
You can argue that we could have held onto the 2017 position with some tweaks. But it's a wild leap to claim that that was a winning proposition by last December. It wasn't even persuasive to many members of the Party by then.
Labour's problems run much deeper than the Brexit issue. It still seeks to be the sole competitor with the Conservatives in a FPTP system when electoral geography almost guarantees that they will remain as junior partners in such a system.
(Even adopting a coalitional approach around constitutional reform isn't a winning proposition if the Party doesn't develop communicative assets that are a match for the right's propaganda machine, itself a coalition between 'respectable mainstream media' and the far-right ...
... Brexit was shaped as a wedge issue by an overwhelmingly pro-Conservative, anti-socialist comms regime. In 2015 people voted for the Conservatives because they feared that Miliband would be a puppet of Alex Salmond. There is no end to what the fantasy factory can produce.)

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We've tried running universities as if they are businesses and it hasn't worked. It seems quite urgent that they are restored as self-governing scholarly communities. But there's an issue about what that looks like. Individual scholars tend to be preoccupied with teaching ...
... and research. They aren't academic administrators because they don't want to be. So how does a disparate and distracted majority prevent a tightly organised and highly focussed minority from acting in ways that harm the institution and its constituents in the long term?
This is a familiar problem. Elections on their own won't work. Means have to be found to push the people who do the value creating work into positions of authority, so that they, and their colleagues, can be protected from the antics of senior managers.
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FWIW it seems to me that the Greens have to fight hard in the by-election. Voters are smart enough to figure out the numbers and vote accordingly. If enough of them can't stomach voting Labour, that's a Labour problem, not a Green one. The next Labour PM will still ...
... be from the 'soft left' of the party, and they'll know they must deliver real change, fast, to stand a chance in 2029. Labour have spent 6 years humiliating and libelling the left in this country: it's for them to say what they offer us now, apart from vibes.
The more frightened Labour MPs are of the Greens, the more scope any new PM will have to bully them into accepting significant social democratic reforms: if the Greens back down the median Labour MP will pocket the win, and go back to worrying about Reform and the bond market.
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Nov 29, 2025
In 1979 the UK state handed economic planning to rich people. They gambled, blew credit bubbles, looked for higher returns overseas. Domestic investment slumped. The rich haven't done their job, and we should replace them as planners through a democratised state. Once we've ...🧵
... agreed to do that questions about monetary-fiscal management and constitutional design fall into place. Democracy is appealing in this context because of its capacity to mobilise latent knowledge, and to combat elite corruption. Finance sector reform is necessary because ...
... the creation and allocation of credit-money is the primary means through which a society shapes incentives, creates subjectivities, and determines who wins, and who loses. The neoliberal subject is an indebted subject, and their worth is tied up with their credit worthiness.
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Oct 30, 2025
Absolutely loved this conversation between @AyeishaTS @francesnorthrop and @KeirMilburn about Abundance, real and fake, on the @NEF podcast. FN makes such an important point about the current state's inability to recognise the capacity that exists in ...
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@AyeishaTS @francesnorthrop @KeirMilburn @NEF ... particular places: a corporate type in a suit with a business, yes; people who know somewhere and have a deep sense of its needs and capacities, not so much. A big challenge for constitutional reform is to create a state that doesn't default to partnership with the rich ...
@AyeishaTS @francesnorthrop @KeirMilburn @NEF ... but has a deep affinity with a cooperative civil society. (This has preoccupied me for a while: it's one of the themes in my 2018 paper on constitutional reform for @DemocracyCollab: How do we connect a democratic state to a mutualised economy? thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/…
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Aug 21, 2025
This is a useful way to think about how a mutualised BBC would differ from the current "public service" model. A BBC political reporter published an article on the 18th August. On the 20th a member of the public has tried to bring their attention to what they see as errors.🧵
As it stands there is no way to adjudicate between the professional journalist and the member of the public, even though the issues raised are incredibly important. In a mutualised BBC members' panels would be on hand to examine controversies like this, and make a determination.
The panel could take representations from interested parties and interview the journalist and their editors. They could then make a ruling, which would have to be publicised by the BBC at least as prominently as the original article, if they were found to be at fault.
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Apr 13, 2025
In his latest explainer @garyseconomics touches on a key issue, the lack of seriousness in the media about how successful economic reform would need to organised. We need high-level, widely shared, discussion of what we've been doing since 1979 ...
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... where it has led us, and we need to change our political economy to improve living standards for the majority against a background of geopolitical instability and climate change. But post-2008 the media prefer to believe one weird trick will be enough to appease the gods.
Again, we could have public media that organises and manages just such a debate, that tests all kinds of propositions against the evidence in a way that is compelling and enlightening to the citizenry, who themselves participate actively and directly in the process. But we don't.
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