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3 Aug, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Recent polls reinforce the message that we need a Progressive Alliance. With a divided opposition the Tories would almost certainly win a Parliamentary majority, whereas a united opposition would gain a clear victory.

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A Progressive Alliance must not look like a cynical electoral manipulation devised by the party leaders. It has to emerge out of debate within and outside the parties. That's why the Compass campaign in Labour, LibDems and Greens is vital. @Neal_Compass
compassonline.org.uk/campaigns/
It must be clear that a Progressive Alliance is about defending and strengthening our democracy, and pitting our values like truth, honesty, fairness, justice, cooperation and care against the populist right’s offering of lies, corruption, manipulation, fear, hatred and division
I believe that the difficulties facing the opposition, and particularly Labour stem from the huge social changes caused by deindustrialisation. The path to overcoming those challenges is through the politics of shared values and cooperation. #FBPA #FBPPR
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Nick Reeves #FBPA #FBPE #ProgressiveAlliance Profile picture
28 Jul
Deindustrialisation has shattered the class politics that dominated the last century. The Tories have taken full advantage, returning to the corrupt politics of 18th century oligarchy. The opposition needs a new political road map. Me in @SussexBylines
sussexbylines.co.uk/un-divide-to-c…
The end of class politics resulting from deindustrialisation is by far the most important political development of our times. The Tories in their cynical way have rapidly adapted to it. The opposition, especially Labour, are still struggling to grasp what has happened.
By destroying much of the social base of the Labour movement deindustrialisation has opened up much of the working class to the bogus promise of social solidarity offered by right-wing nationalism.
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Nick Reeves #FBPA #FBPE #ProgressiveAlliance Profile picture
23 Jul
As Hannah Arendt, one of the foremost analysts of the rise of Nazism warned, lies destroy democracy. By tolerating a serial liar like Johnson the House of Commons has become a cancer eating away our democracy. We can have democracy or the lies and liars. We cannot have both.
When lies they become endemic they breed fear, distrust, cynism and apathy, they destroy people's ability to make reasoned political judgements, they divide us into warring groups unable to converse with each other. They push society into a politics of raw emotion & brute power.
To have a reasoned disagreement with someone, you have to agree with them about almost everything. If you disagree about too much, you don't have a debate, you just have a shouting match, the other person seems mad or plain evil. That's why lies are so dangerous politically.
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Nick Reeves #FBPA #FBPE #ProgressiveAlliance Profile picture
22 Jun
1/ #WhitePrivilege It is not anti-racism that has caused white working class kids to perform badly at school, and it's cynical and divisive of the Tories to suggest otherwise.

But there is clearly a problem among a segment of the white working class. So some thoughts.
2/ Deindustrialisation has hit the working class hard. Employment patterns, communities and working class organisations have crumbled. Millions of stable unskilled jobs have disappeared and those that remain are often in the gig economy.
3/ Since the 1970s patterns of working class life that had endured for generations have disappeared. Many working class people have adapted and thrived in the post-industrial economy, but many others are struggling in a less stable economy that demands higher skills.
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Nick Reeves #FBPA #FBPE #ProgressiveAlliance Profile picture
20 Jun
Bercow says the Tories have become “reactionary, populist, nationalistic and sometimes even xenophobic”, and that "people are sick of lies, sick of empty slogans, sick of a failure to deliver.’’

This is what Starmer should be saying - the plain truth about the Tories.
I like Starmer, he's decent and intelligent, but he is a hopeless leader, like a rabbit frozen in the headlights. He should be rallying Labour support on all sides of the party through an all-out attack on the Tories - and there is so much to attack.
Starmer acts like he's in a courtroom. He's very good at it. But politics isn't like that. It's about the relentless repetition of simple emotionally charged messages, and Starmer is far too polite and reasonable for that.
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Nick Reeves #FBPA #FBPE #ProgressiveAlliance Profile picture
30 May
1/ Tory misrule is populist ideology in action. In populism the 'Will of the People' authorises an elected government to smash through laws, rules, norms or Parliamentary scutiny. In short it is elected dictatorship posing as an ideal form of democracy.
2/ The present outbreak of populist misrule in the UK has its root in Brexit politics when the Brexiters copied the Nazis in using a referendum victory to demonise those opposing or seen as hindering Brexit as enemies of the 'democratic will of the people'.
3/ Dictators stage & win votes, because democracy isn't just about votes. It's equally about the right to oppose, the rule of law and accurate information - all of which were cynically violated by the Brexiters & continue to be violated by the Tories & their media allies.
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Nick Reeves #FBPA #FBPE #ProgressiveAlliance Profile picture
12 May
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.
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