Labour ppl split over Amersham - either it was a harbinger of #ProgressiveAlliance or a disaster caused by Starmer... I can see elements of both... 1/ Tactical voting easier if party loyalty already frayed ...but look at the context...
2/ In SE England there are already numerous local de facto #ProgressiveAlliance s... spreadsheets shared between council candidates deciding where to put the effort etc...
3/ But this was also a stunning mass rejection of the Tory "my mate will get permission to build an extra house in your back garden" culture - which *really matters* in southern England...
4/ It shows there is a viable coalition of voters to kick the Tories out in 2024 and Labour needs a strategy to build it. I said B4 - if you can't make the party into the coalition, you need @labourlewis PA strategy
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Please read Tribune's latest attack on the #ProgressiveAlliance - it contains all the vacuous counter-arguments you are ever going to need... let's demolish them one by one... jacobinmag.com/2021/06/uk-pro…
1/ Labour is already too much like a #ProgressiveAlliance because it contains too many Remainers and social liberals... that's really the nub of the Lexiteers arguments but as materialists surely British social-democracy "is what it is"...
2/ ...and the logical concomitant is we should be prepared to face "decades out of power" as the price for expressing working class interests. Yet the majority of working class people *are* socially liberal....
Here's how this could work 1/ If party members ask themselves under each heading: what big changes do working class voters around me want under these 6 headings ....
2/ Then choose just 2 policies for each heading: then communicate them - and nothing else - relentlessly, building activist campaigns around them...
3/ Then lose two and put the remaining 10 in order of priority, allocating a fiscal stimulus of £200bn/year to the list ... and commit to nothing else ...
Here's @Dominic2306 spilling the beans on Hancock and Gove, but missing the point... 1/ he's right that the government does not control the government... but whats' really wrong with the Cabinet Office? dominiccummings.substack.com/p/the-pm-on-ha…
2/ The modern Cabinet Office is the living embodiment of the privatisation of governance. It can't do anything because, having ceded so many functions of the state to the private sector, everything is subject to contract, KPIs and civil service conflicts of interest...
3/ Cummings, like all techbro authoritarians, thinks you solve this through (as he said to the MPs ctttee) "dictatorship"... but the UK system will not allow it; so you end up solving it through the kind of nepotism, lawbreaking and corruption now being uncovered in the courts...
Sun's out. Football's happening. Racists frothing... time for the Northern Soul World Cup. Follow link for the tracks. Eight groups of 4. One vote per group. GROUP A: Male Vocals...youtube.com/playlist?list=…
Booing the knee is going to be this summer's version of defending Churchill's statue... but Southgate's brave and well-argued stance means we can use it as a teachable moment bs fascism 1/... medium.com/mosquito-ridge…
1/ ... the core conceit of British racism is that the system is not racist: having an empire, running the slave trade, allowing systematic police racism had no long term effect ... medium.com/mosquito-ridge…
... so it's not racist to boo an anti-racist gesture; in fact it's an insult to Britain to suggest the racists are racist... next fascism .... medium.com/mosquito-ridge…