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Ian Dunt

13 Nov, 7 tweets, 2 min read

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Biden's victory showed what is possible if liberals and the left work together against nationalism - my latest for the @TheNewEuropean theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news/it…

We can of course go back to usual pattern of mutual loathing and frustration. Or people can take the fight to the real enemy.

That involves at least one concession on each side. The Labour left should accept the EHRC antisemitism report in its entirely. It has to commit to anti-racism. Some never will - and they should fuck off. The majority of the left does and will.

Labour centrists, on the other hand, should accept that laissez faire is dead. It proved catastrophic on economic, social and political terms. The state must take an active role in the market.

This idea is not an obstacle to electoral success, but a pre-condition of it. The left should be given very clear and significant wins which can be secured through a more moderate leadership.

That shouldn't be the nationalised-broadband-for-everyone of the 2019 manifesto, but it can be the more sensible, cautious social democracy of the 2017 manifesto.

I have zero expectation of any of this happening. Everyone seems to love trying to kill each other. But the truth of the matter is there to see: liberals and the left should work together against the nativist right. And they must do, if it's to be defeated.

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