In our conversations I don’t diagnose. I listen, appreciate and ask questions. And perhaps I can be the first person in your life to hear you without waiting my turn to respond, with interrupting. theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…
@SteveLawrence_ Hi Steve, in no particular order and with little sleep, I see opportunities to: 1. Build rejoin campaign 2. Secure proportional rep (internatl Labour Movement, we need your help getting tribal @UKLabour on board) 3. Written constitution 4. Electoral reform re finance, digital /1
@SteveLawrence_@UKLabour 2/ + mandatory voter registration 4. Written constitution 5. Oversight by @osce_odihr & UN/EU fragile democracy rapporteurs 6. Civic educ, media literacy skills via teach-in model eg USA civil rights era 7. ONS oversight on exodus rates 8. Sustainable journalism
@SteveLawrence_@UKLabour@osce_odihr And power is centralised in Westminster unhelpful ways that limit agency at the local level. So maybe an invigorated or new twinning project?
Meanwhile poverty & suffering will continue to increase. Bearing and bearing witness to this in and of itself is momentous.
Back @BylineFest for day 3 - starting here in Forest Forum to hear @RVAwonk@J_amesp @zabrinazabrisky chaired by #BylineFest best-dressed chair Peter York
Audience member @stonesister7 offered to explain the #AltRight as a fake term invented by #SteveBannon - what are we taking about is #Nazism - to make it sound hip & trendy & it’s working
Another adds: #AltRight are nationalistic, xenophobic & prepared to suborn democracy to achieve their aims
Chair @PeterPeteryork takes these on & asks what links these trends across USA & Europe
Carole asks Luke: when did Trump cross your radar?
Luke: summer 2016. When Manafort became campaign manager whom Luke had met in Ukraine who was consultant transforming Yavchenko. What was he doing in Soviet Empire?? He was best connected political lobbist in area. Pre-Steele!
.@lukeharding1968 was investigating Deutsch Bank. DB kept lending even after Trump sued DB for losses arising from #FinCrisis. Dec 2016 Luke met Christopher Steele who said, Follow the Money, Follow the Sex #BylineFest@BylineFest