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14 May, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Spring is in the air?
"For Labour, on 12.9% at the GE,it tests its common sense: is it willing to work with other parties against the common foe& stand right back or not at all?" @EdwardJDavey @Keir_Starmer do NOT dare disappoint us.
#ProgressiveAlliance
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
"The Batley and Spen byelection coinciding makes it easy for a Lib Dem quid pro quo, standing down in exchange."
"For the Greens, on just 5.5% last time, this HS2 route feels fertile ground, but if they fight here they risk taking the blame. Can the other parties reach out to them? “They’d better come to us with a cast iron quid pro quo,” says the Green party spokesperson Molly Scott Cato."
Two seats. A perfect incubator for a test run of a #ProgressiveAlliance Let your feelings be known to parties leaders including @sianberry @jon_bartley #GTTO

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16 May
Very interesting article which gives hope next to vaccines. Well worth reading.
I couldn't resist a tiny bit of Brexiters' provocation below but the article is much better than this.
politico.eu/article/corona…
In Europe, countries that have embraced these therapies — such as Hungary, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Italy and Sweden — have done "a really good job" with rolling out these treatments and overcoming access hurdles, often "infusing hundreds of patients a day," she said.
However, for the majority of European countries, including the U.K., these drugs still aren't available.
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16 May
The UK is trying to torpedo Biden's minimum corporate tax together with 🇮🇪 by putting the digital tax back on the table.
It will lead to endless discussions & no agreement They are banking on the Republicans winning the mid-term elections ( wrapping in in a "noble cause").
They are banking on the Republicans winning the mid-term elections. Biden's proposal isn't perfect but it is a big step forward.
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14 May
Arrogance is not clever.
When will Labour learn? standard.co.uk/news/politics/…
The three political parties said they tried to secure a four party agreement for chairing committees based around the proportion of seats each group has on the London Assembly.
Their plan would have allowed Labour to chair five committees, the Conservatives four, Greens one and the Lib Dems one in the first year of this administration.
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14 May
This is about more than these awful incidents. It is about a desire to cut our affective ties with Europe: from exit from Erasmus, rejection of EU offer of mobility clause, banning au pairs (FGS!!) to chosing the hardest Brexit to make everything connected to Europe complicated,
expensive, bureaucratic. Johnson & his gangstas crew want to detach us from Europe. If they could they would tow Britain away. They want us to loose all our European habits: cultural, commercial, affective & become more American or Asian. Forget about food standards,
free healthcare, rights at work, more than a week paid holidays. The rights, the holiday, the health, the delicious food & wines, that's fine for them. Not for us. Don't go to Europe they say as our third Covid wave looms on the horizon. Turn your back on those soft Europeans.
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12 May
A progressive alliance between the 3 parties of the left would be a huge gamble, difficult to pull off. It would require genuine audacious leadership. But it could be a great electoral success. This is why. 🧵1/11
Some say that voters would react badly to an "explicit alliance". Perhaps if this alliance was only an electoral pact -presented as purely "opportunistic". But if it was focused on "flagship" policies on which the 3 opposition parties could unite (& hopefully unite the country)2/
-Dignity & security: at work, at home (housing), in old age, in communities (crime)
- Halting the privatisation of the NHS - much more should be said about the recent privatisation of GP surgeries for profit
- A genuine Green programme on job creation & protecting the planet 3/
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12 May
@jemgilbert I read and enormously enjoyed your series of articles in Open Democracy. Like you I am convinced that a progressive alliance is a vital necessity. I would go further: it is a moral imperative.
One point which is thrown in response again & again is Labour Rule Book
Chapter 2 clause 1.4 section B of Labour's constitution excludes from membership:
"A member of the Party who joins and/or supports a political organisation other than an official Labour group or other unit of the Party, or supports any candidate who stands against an official
Labour candidate, or publicly declares their intent to stand against a Labour candidate, shall automatically be ineligible to be or remain a Party member"
I fail to see how this clause would prevent an alliance if there was a will to form one.
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