I will never forgive the Brexit elite for robbing us of Freedom of Movement. They lied, cheated, broke the law, poured out torrents of hate against migrants, and sought to subvert Parliamentary sovereignty. They are no better than common thieves, and they belong in jail.
We should never forget the torrent of hate and lies against migrants. This wasn't news, it wasn't democratic comment, it was fascist hate propaganda spewed out by rags owned by tax-dodging billionaires.
We should never forget the attempt to use the fascist notion of the "Will of the People" to shout down the core democratic right to oppose, and to demonise opponents as "enemies of the people". This was a direct echo of Goebbels' response to a Nazi referendum victory.
Brexit was won not by democratic argument, but by the relentless outpouring of fascist propaganda themes including blatant lies, rabid nationalism, xenophobia, scapegoating of minorities, anti-intellectualism and the totalitarian "Will of the People".
Here's Professor Timothy Snyder explaining how the political right on both sides of the Atlantic were helping themselves to the Nazi propaganda manual, using simple emotive slogans to divide the population into friends and enemies.

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31 Aug
Economic and and social change have shattered Labour's working-class support base. The old politics is not coming back. If the opposition want to win then they must join in a Progressive Alliance and commit to Proportional Representation. #FBPA #FBPPR
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FPTP made a fair bit of sense in a society divided on class lines, when the two main parties had to battle over the political middle ground. But class politics is dead, and in a fragmented society FPTP makes no sense. PR and cooperation are required for a diverse society.
The idea that economics directly drives politics, whether of the Marxist variety in which economics drives class structures and politics, or the centre-left variety in which people respond rationally to economic policies and conditions, is naive.
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23 Aug
Boris Johnson is just the public face of a quagmire of kleptocratic corruption, a cesspit of oligarchs and their venal political & journalistic minions. And this crooked clique is just part of an international network that is attacking democracy under the flag of patriotism.
And these crony capitalists, these would-be oligarchs and their venal political and journalistic hirelings have always existed, but until recently their road to power was blocked by the politically powerful middle and working classes.
But deindustrialisation and other economic changes have shattered the middle and working classes as political forces, and now, in a fragmented society, these crony capitalists are free to manipulate the 40% they need to hold power under FPTP.
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21 Aug
The corruption, dishonesty and negligence of the Tory elite is no accident. Deindustrialisation has shattered Labour's working-class base and a divided opposition has allowed the Tories to return to the corrupt oligarchical politics of the 18th century.
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Working class communities, organisations and the Labour movement were the bulwark that resisted the propaganda of the kleptocratic right. That bulwark has largely vanished, and disorientated people in a fragmented society are now wide open to hard-right manipulation.
In the 1950s the Tories were a mass-membership party of the middle class and ordinary businesses. Now, as Brexit has shown, the Tory oligarchy finds it more convenient to manipulate confused working-class voters than to serve the middle class and ordinary businesses.
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Deindustrialisation has shattered the class politics that dominated the last century. Labour's working class support base has crumbled, the middle class is hopelessly fragmented. The opposition urgently needs a new politics of cooperation and compromise.
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We often look at politics in terms of policies and personalities. But very occasionally the economic and social foundations of politics undergo a tectonic shift which radically and irreversibly changes the political landscape. Deindustrialisation is causing just such a shift.
For nearly 100 years British politics was broadly built around the class struggle. It was taken for granted that the main electoral battles were for the centre ground occupied by the skilled working class and lower middle class. That epoch has ended and won't return.
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Deindustrialisation has shattered Labour's working class support base, and left millions of people in a confusing and fragmented society open to the Tory propaganda of tribal nationalism and culture wars. How can the opposition respond? #FBPA #FBPPR
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In the middle of the last century the Labour movement was deeply embedded in stable working class communities. The Tories were a mass membership party serving the middle class and hundreds of thousands of British businesses.
Since the middle of the last century the working and middle classes have crumbled as political forces. Now we have an 18th century style of politics in which the political and media minions of a sociopathic fragment of the super-rich manipulate a fragmented electorate.
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Only Britain has been forced to deal with a Brexdemic.

All countries have suffered Covid, but the UK has uniquely been exposed to the economic and moral damage of Brexit too.
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The good work of half a century of being closely integrated into Europe is being undone. The inconvenience and disruption make previous complaints about “Brussels bureaucracy” look like a sick joke.
The so-called red-wall seats of the north-east are being especially badly hit by Brexit. Just how long will it be before so many Brexiters wake up to the fact that they have been “had”?
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