In case you haven’t noticed, it’s official.

The Johnson Brexit (aka ‘freedom’) comes at a price.

So, you have a choice:

🔻go with the flow & face impoverishment

🔻enrich yourself while those around you are made poorer & less secure

🔻ditch the Johnson Brexit

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Just for reference & as a reminder, here’s the complete catalogue of Brexit benefits Lord Frost presented to MPs👇
Whatever the price of the Johnson Brexit, it’s a price worth paying. Because, as Lord Frost revealed to Anand Menon, there’s one super-convincing benefit … 👇
With thanks to @McIntyre_MJ, a short dialogue on the possible significance of Lord Frost’s attachment to obtaining ‘freedom’ at a price👇

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12 Sep
The three faces of Brexit

🔻Sincere phantasmagorism

🔻Cruel cynicism

🔻Failed rationalism

How they’re affecting the United Kingdom. Why. And what’s to be done.

A short 🧵 /1. Image
🔻Sincere phantasmagorism

To be sincere is neither to be right nor, necessarily, admirable.

So it is with Brexiters seized by a phantasm of 21st C global British ‘greatness’.

A cocktail of supposed unique British virtue, 1870s Empire & 16th C piracy. Purest, toxic fantasy. /2. Image
🔻Cruel cynicism

You’ve got to laugh at the 0.01%, angry a ‘Brexit dividend’ of slashed taxes & regulations could now end up as more of both.

But it’s far from funny. Greedy, cruel, wealthy ‘libertarians’ are attempting to shatter government & society. They’re still at it. /3. Image
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The problem.

A short 🧵.

Dedicated to @DavidGHFrost. /1.
The problem is, David, and I know you know this … /2.
… it doesn’t work. /3.
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🇬🇧Winning. Case study 1.

A young sporting genius of Chinese & Romanian immigrant background is about to become the first British citizen in over 40 years to play in a women’s tennis Grand Slam final. /1.
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Still, you’ve got to laugh, haven’t you? /3.
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A.A. Milne knew a thing or two about children & adult failings. And was the creator of political metaphors. Here, Mary Jane & her dinner.

If you have ten minutes & a hot brew (or rice pudding), settle in.

A 🧵. /1. Image
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The solution stares the reader in the face. How we laugh at the adults, so uncomprehending of their failure to understand their own, obvious error.

How uncomfortable we (or some of us, at least) feel, recognising the description of inadequacies we share. /3.
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You’ve heard of the Irish Trilemma. Solution? Ditch the Johnson Brexit.

Now it’s the Great British Trilemma:

A Johnson Brexit

B Spending

C Low inflation

A+B = rocketing inflation

A+C = austerity & recession

B+C = ditch the Johnson Brexit /1.
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.@TomTugendhat makes powerful points on the consequences of the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

For people in Afghanistan itself, of course.

And for the world, if the power & reliability of the US & its allies is thrown into doubt.

It mustn’t be. So what’s the plan?

A 🧵/1.
.@TomTugendhat’s concerns are easy to understand & widely shared

But, President Biden & his team have the unenviable, existentially vital task (for the US, all its allies & the world at large) of leading a global order confronted by unprecedented challenges: /2.
▪️world environmental & health crisis;

▪️political, economic & security destabilisation, arising from systemic geopolitical rivalry with Xi’s CCP-led China, & serious disruptive potential from Putin’s KGB-captured Russia; /3.
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