1/ If the Tories win the next election they will so distort our political system that opposition parties won't be able to win power. Brexit was just the first step in the dismantling of British democracy. That's why we must have a Progressive Alliance.
#FBPA
#FBPA
2/ I am not saying the Tories are plotting to destroy democracy. It's rather that the Tory elite has no care for democracy. It serves only itself and its super-rich paymasters. Whenever democracy or the law become a nuisance it naturally acts to weaken them.
3/ The process of dismantling democracy has already got to the point where the Labour leadership is pretty much cowering under the table out of fear of a media dominated by offshore billionaires, and a Tory BBC. That's the behaviour of a party in a Putinist managed democracy.
4/ We accept so much as normal. The open corruption, the torrent of right-wing lies, the demolition of the Nolan Principles, the gross abuses of democracy that led to Brexit - all are now treated as normal. That is the pathology of a polity well down the road to Putinism.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
