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1. I think we need to first define ‘opposition’. The problems facing @UKLabour are far more to do with existential structural factors rather than any one leader/policy, however they’re perceived. Changing the latter will not solve the former.
1. I think we need to first define ‘opposition’. The problems facing @UKLabour are far more to do with existential structural factors rather than any one leader/policy, however they’re perceived. Changing the latter will not solve the former.
https://twitter.com/samuelkofficial/status/1379125121567313921
2. The Tories are fast becoming hegemonic. They’re also no longer the Tory party as we know but increasingly an English nationalist party. One that is south/south eastern centric and reactionary. This has implications for the acceleration of support for @theSNP & @Plaid_Cymru
3. Because of the nature of this Tory variant of English nationalism and political nationalist accelerations in Scotland & Wales - other regional movements like @FreeNorthNow or similar movements will grow as a result. Indeed they already are.
4. For @UKLabour to embrace #PR is not a silver bullet. It won’t even begin stop these post 2008/post brexit/declining empire political realignments. What it will do in the short run is make anti-Tory electoral pacts more workable.
5. But it will also need to ditch ‘labourism’- the notion only labour can enact progressive change from above. Instead it will need to accept working with others now & inthe future to finally enable transformative bottom-up change with democratic renewal at the heart of that prog
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