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29 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
What Starmer should say - "This is a wretched deal that breaks almost every Brexit promise. It is bad for the country and bad for the people. We will not be tricked by Tory scaremongering about a no-deal into supporting this abysmal deal. Labour will abstain."
Brexit is not going to deliver on its promises. People won't feel better because of some wholly imaginary boost to our sovereignty. Support for the deal will tarnish Labour with every Brexit failure.
Much Brexit and Tory support is driven by fear of social change. Frightened people generally want strong leadership. An opposition that looks frightened will only earn contempt.
It could be extended thus - This is a Tory project, a Tory mess, a Tory disaster. Let the Tories take full responsibility for their actions. Let them have no-one else to blame. We will put our name to neither of the abysmal choices they are offering.

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Nick Reeves 3.5% #FBPE Profile picture
30 Dec
Dear @Keir_Starmer. A politician who wants us to forget about the most destructive right-wing policy in modern British history, and the abuses of democracy, including incitement to violence that were used to obtain it, does not deserve to lead Labour.
Brexit has been driven through by hate and lies, by dark ads, electoral fraud, Russian interference, a campaign of populist intimidation including incitement to violence by press and politicians, repeated attempts to conceal evidence and subvert Parliament.
Brexit has been driven through by a concerted right-wing attack on our democracy. We urgently need to stem the tide of lies and we need to hugely strengthen our democracy's defences, but how can we do that if the Labour leader pretends the attack on our democracy never happened?
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17 Dec
1/ The leftist critique of empire, namely that it was a thoroughly bad thing, misses the target. To hit the political right we need to point out that the empire failed, that it collapsed, that its defeat was total and humiliating.
2/ The humiliation and pain of loss of empire was hidden under the lie that it was a graceful withdrawal. And the failure to psychologically process that crushing defeat means that England cannot shake off the dead skin of imperialism, and move on to a realistic new identity.
3/ England as a nation spent around 250 years subsumed in Britain and Empire. It re-emerged angry and empty as a result of rejection and defeat. Its very existence is defined by a loss and humiliation that its partisans can accept physically but not emotionally.
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Nick Reeves 3.5% #FBPE Profile picture
17 Dec
Now and again I argue that Brexit is, in part, a result of a mostly English failure to accept the humiliation of the collapse of empire. So many English cling to an imperialist mentality, even while inwardly seething at the absence of empire. Imperialists without an empire - sad!
An empire doesn't disappear gracefully or voluntarily. An empire collapses because of defeat and rejection. The collapse of the British empire was a humiliating defeat, but it was dressed up as a graceful withdrawal. So the English never faced up to the pain and humiliation.
So rather than the English working through the pain and loss of defeat and finding a new identity, many of them hid the pain inside themselves, where it has become a kind of malign festering abscess filled with loss, grief, pain, anger and rage.
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15 Dec
"Brexit is a con, a trick, a swindle, a fraud, a deception that will hurt most of those people it promised to help."

Imagine Labour had spent 4 years speaking out as clearly, honestly and courageously as David Lammy in 2019. Would we have Brexit? I think not!
People tend to assume that a section of the white working class are unshakeable attached to Brexit. But is it so surprising that they have backed Brexit when Labour have absolutely failed to denounce it, leaving resistance to a motley crew of relatively marginal political actors?
Is it surprising that a pro-Brexit political view has predominated in part of the population when for over 4 years Labour has abandoned the fight and allowed the hard and far-right to all but monopolise the debate?
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15 Dec
1/ English nationalism is angry, vacuous, and uncaring. It makes up for its lack of positive content through antagonism to the other - to all those whether foreign or English who don't fit the angry white native stereotype.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
2/ English nationalism was born late, not out of enthusiasm or pride, but out of the pain, humiliation and loss of status caused by the collapse of empire and the Celtic rejection of English supremacy. So English nationalism is negative, angry and empty.
3/ The English nationalists are angry because the only England they know and want, is the one they cannot have, of white English imperialism. They want the feeling and status of imperialism without an empire. It's impossible, and so they rage.
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7 Dec
1/ Alistair Campbell @campbellclaret is entirely right that Labour has let the Brexit right get into their heads. In spite of Corbyn & hopelessly inept Labour and LibDem campaigns 2nd referendum parties gained a clear majority of the popular vote in 2019.
theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news/we…
2/ Had Starmer been leading Labour and had it conducted a reasonable campaign then it might have boosted its vote by 4-6% at the Tories' expense, putting it at around 37% vs the Tories on 38.5%.
3/ Had Labour and the LibDems cooperated in key seats - much easier with Starmer as Labour leader than Corbyn who was toxic to the moderate Tory voters the LibDems needed to capture we would almost certainly have had another hung Parliament & quite possibly Starmer in Number 10.
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