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9 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
1/ "We won’t be back in the EU”: Rachel Reeves sets out Labour’s Brexit policy

Then we Remainers and Rejoiners should dump Labour. Electoral cooperation will be needed to beat the Tories so there is no need for us to back a party that spits in our faces. labourlist.org/2020/10/we-won…
2/ Ever since 2016 Labour has taken its pro-EU voters for granted while pandering to Brexiters. Well enough is enough. Why should we back a party that treats us with contempt? Electoral cooperation will be needed to beat the Tories, so let's leave Labour with its Brexity red wall
3/ I'm not a hardline rejoiner who demands the next government brings us back into the EU. Rejoining will depend on very clear majority support, and before rejoining we would need to radically strengthen our democracy.
4/ But while not being a hardline rejoiner I am absolutely not going to back a party which rules out rejoining. Rejoining must be on the cards. As I say, electoral cooperation will be needed to beat the Tories, so we are not stuck with Brexity Labour.

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The market fundamentalist ideology driving right-wing politics - an extreme ideology, backed by big money, which views the intrinsic worth of a person as determined by their wealth, and views taxation as theft & democracies as parasites.
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Andrew Neil's news channel is an attack on British democracy. Like Murdoch's Fox News it is designed to create a self-contained right-wing tribe which regards the rest of society as enemies and so will back the kleptocrats' demolition of democracy.
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1/ Braverman claims opposition to breaking international (and national law) is unpatriotic. She is the one being unpatriotic. From Magna Carta onwards our governments have been constrained by the rule of law. It is tyrants who put themselves above the law.
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'The nations not so blest as thee
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1/ The USA shows that it is unsafe to assume the end of Brexit will end the culture wars. If they continue then we should focus our attack on what the Brexiters think is their greatest strength, namely their claim to patriotism, because in reality that is their soft underbelly.
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