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12 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Andy Burnham urges UK to 'embrace' Brexit as 'new reality'

No @AndyBurnhamGM, Brexit damages the country, robs us of our Freedom of Movement and was obtained through the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history. Brexit is a crime.
theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news/we…
Dear Andy Burnham, Labour cannot properly challenge Tory authoritarianism until it accepts that the Tory attack on our democracy began with the tsunami of Brexit lies and hate propaganda and Vote Leave's electoral fraud which robbed us of a fair vote.
Labour cannot properly challenge Tory authoritarianism until it accepts that after the referendum the Brexiters unleashed the fascist notion that the "Will of the People" overrides the democratic right to oppose and legal and Parliamentary checks on government power.
Andy Burnham, you can if you choose, destroy Labour, by alienating its pro-EU supporters & engaging in a futile attempt to win over red wall Brexiters who will see right through the patronising insincerity. When will Labour's leaders dare to speak plainly & honestly about Brexit?

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Nick Reeves #FBPA #FBPE #ProgressiveAlliance Profile picture
7 May
1/ Where Labour may be going wrong is by looking too woke. Labour was always a party that cared for ordinary working people. Its concern for minorities was always anchored in that care for the great mass of ordinary people.
2/ Labour was seldom the main force driving social liberalisation, but it didn't oppose it either, and when liberalising projects gained social traction Labour governments put the changes into law.
3/ Labour in the Corbyn years was often seen (perhaps unfairly) as being more interested in minorities than in the great mass of ordinary folk, and more interested in cutting edge ideas for social reform rather than in the concerns of ordinary people.
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4 May
1/ Working class support for the Tories isn't just due to disorientated people in a fragmented society clinging onto tribal nationalism.

It's also because economic stagnation makes economics and politics seem like a zero sum struggle for resources between social groups.
2/ Economic and social change has disrupted the white working class more than any other large social group. They feel that as natives they deserve preferential treatment, and feel that the liberal-left focus on minorities betrays them.
3/ So identification with the bogus security and solidarity of tribal nationalism is augmented by a bitter white nativist resentment against a progressive politics that they believe puts them at the back of the queue.
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Nick Reeves #FBPA #FBPE #ProgressiveAlliance Profile picture
4 May
1/ I think we need a centre-left populism. I think it should be aimed at the tax-dodging rich and the Tory elite. Rich bastards screwing hard-working honest taxpayers. Link that with Tory corruption and I think you've got something.
2/ An attack on the alliance of the Tory elite and the tax-dodging rich can pull in support from the Left and from the middle class and from decent tax-paying businesses. It's an attack on a very small venal, corrupt and cheating elite that is screwing the rest of us.
3/ I see deindustrialisation as having destroyed 20th century class politics. It's created a fragmented and disorientated populace open to manipulation by a very small coherent and well-financed elite.
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2 May
Complex identities’ of Northern Ireland being undermined, says ex-official

Ciaran Martin criticises post-Brexit attempts to ‘redesign’ UK based on old notion of English sovereignty

English nationalism is little English imperialism.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/m…
English nationalism is built around the denial of the pain, loss and humiliation of loosing the empire, and around delusions of regaining that past glory. Only through acceptance of the humiliation of imperial collapse can England move to a positive & realistic national identity.
The world's largest ever empire collapsed in just 20 years. It was a huge loss of status for those who care about such things, and the humiliating reality was covered up by the myth of a gracious withdrawal.
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Nick Reeves #FBPA #FBPE #ProgressiveAlliance Profile picture
30 Apr
1/ Social change, especially deindustrialisation has shattered the working and middle classes as political forces. Now we are left with a fragmented mass, part of which is hoodwinked by the nationalist drivel of the manipulative kleptocratic Tory elite. The rest is us.
2/ The part of the electorate which has not been hoodwinked by Tory Brexit nationalism does not constitute a coherent economic or social grouping. And it seems unlikely that it will let itself be drawn into some kind of bogus flag-waving unity.
3/ With such a disparate electoral base the opposition to Tory English nationalism has to be based not an a fake and unworkable idea of unity, but on the acceptance of difference and on the politics of cooperation and compromise.
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29 Apr
1/ YouGov poll- Working Class Voters
- Conservatives 48%
- Labour 29

A short thread discussing reasons for this.

1) Deindustrialisation has disrupted working class communities far more than it has impacted the middle class. Image
2/ Deindustrialisation has largely destroyed the economic structures that underpinned working class communities and their social and political organisations. The sense of being part of a powerful social, trade union and Labour movement has largely gone.
3/ In quite a few working class areas a large influx of migrants has transformed areas already afflicted by deindustrialisation. Communities where people grew up have vanished. The familiar has become unfamiliar and strange.
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