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23 Sep, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The Daily Mail's definitely beginning to turn against the Tories...
Yes, unmistakeably so. Both the story above, and the one below, are on the DM website front page at the moment...
Goodness, they're feisty this evening. Here's another front page story, albeit one given less prominence...
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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡 Profile picture
23 Sep
Keir Starmer has published "The Road Ahead", an 11,500 word essay about the direction of the Labour party.

This is what it said about Brexit. Yep, that's all. Note "properly manage", as if the problem were one of detail rather than principle.

Useless!

fabians.org.uk/wp-content/upl… Image
Every single word of the document is irrelevant if Labour can't take power to execute that vision.

And by continuing to ignore the 48%, that's a nailed on certainty.

Like a "My Lottery Win Shopping List" drawn up by someone steadfastly refusing to even buy a ticket.
Why does it matter?

Because Labour's huge direction-setting exercise only happens once a year.

If they ignore the opportunity now, it will be another 12 long, cold months before it comes around again.

And we could well get a General Election in the meantime...
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22 Sep
Labour and Keir Starmer have yet to learn that you can write an 11,500 word essay about what the future would look like under a Labour government, but every word is irrelevant if Labour don't first take power.

And by continuing to ignore the 48%, that's a nailed on certainty.
Problem is, they only have one opportunity a year to agree the big bold strokes of Labour's offering. And that's almost upon us.

Once they fluff it over the next week, we're looking at another 12 long months before they can have another crack at it. And we could get a GE first.
If your reaction is "what 11,500 word essay?", you can download a copy at the link below.

And if you want to see what he said about Brexit, the screenshot is IT.
fabians.org.uk/wp-content/upl… Image
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22 Sep
Liz Truss picks a photo of an unmasked Boris Johnson to distribute.

Strange sort of choice to deliberately highlight the selfishness of your boss at the very highest diplomatic levels, unless you're after his job.

Mind you, from a different angle, it's much, much worse...
And then there's this...
And then there's this...
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21 Sep
The US, Canada and Mexico have a trade agreement, the USMCA, in place since mid-2020.

Some jokers in Government think it would be a clever wheeze to piggyback on it, even though it covers 3 adjacent nations and we're thousands of miles away, on the far side of an ocean.
Context:

The US's biggest and second biggest trading partners are Mexico and Canada. The UK is 7th (appropriate, since we do less than 1/6th of the trade either Mexico or Canada do with the US).
census.gov/foreign-trade/…
It's also worth looking through the reams of conditions baked into the USMCA deal. There are countless issues on which the UK stands to lose out, if we were to enter the deal on the same terms.

The webpage below helpfully breaks them down by area.
ustr.gov/trade-agreemen…
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21 Sep
September 2021: "'I want a good deal not a quick deal': Boris Johnson dampens hope of signing US trade agreement any time soon saying he barely knows Joe Biden and American negotiators are 'ruthless'"
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

How did we arrive at this sorry pass? Let's see...
It's a tale of empty promises and two world-class bloviators blowing hot air at each other.

(You can follow the whole story in this thread.)

We begin with a ludicrous brag...

January 2017: "Brexit: UK first in line for US trade deal, says Boris Johnson"
scotsman.com/news/politics/…
July 2019: "Boris Johnson aims to strike US trade deal as first act after becoming PM in bid to mend bridges with Trump"
thesun.co.uk/news/9508614/b…

August 2019: "Trump meets with [Boris Johnson], promises 'very big trade deal' between US, UK after Brexit"
foxnews.com/politics/trump…
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20 Sep
THREAD...

Keir Starmer should say this:

"Brexit isn't working. The evidence is all around us.

[Include 6-7 examples here.]

I acknowledge that Labour voted for the Tories' oven-ready deal. At the time it was the only option when faced with the unthinkable horror of no deal."
"So it was with enormous reluctance that the Labour party supported the deal on the table to avert even greater disaster.

At the time, we said we would hold Boris Johnson accountable for the deal he negotiated. We have monitored events since Brexit closely as they unfolded."
That reckoning is now due. We can no longer sit by and watch damage from Brexit continue to accumulate and worsen, with no prospect of an end in sight.

So long as Brexit endures, things won't - they can't - get better.

Our lived experience of the last 9 months shows us that."
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