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Andrew Levi

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24 Sep

You know you can’t have world-beating training in businesses, because of “cheap labour” sloshing around the single market. Right?

So to fix that you must leave the EU?

And well-paid, skilled jobs are therefore a Brexit benefit?

You can. You don’t. They aren’t.

A short 🧵 /1.

Since 1969 the Federal Republic of Germany has operated a highly successful system, which brings business & government together to produce top class training, in a major, dynamic, market economy. Since the early 90s, in the EU Single Market, with the four freedoms. /2.

The four freedoms? To recap: the free movement of goods, services, people & capital. /3.

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Andrew Levi

@AndrewPRLevi

22 Sep

Statesmanship - dos & don’ts

Harold Macmillan, 20 when WW1 began, grew up in the most powerful country the world had seen. He was 67, 23 years older than his counterpart, when this photo was taken in 1961. JFK had been 28 when the US took over the world, 16 years before. /1.

Macmillan understood reality. His country, already vastly diminished for decades, was a unquestionably dependent on & a supplicant to the US. He showed respect. Formed a strong relationship with the President. Achieved a beneficial deal. /2.

Boris Johnson, 22 years younger than Joe Biden, & 25 when the Berlin Wall came down, grew up in a medium-sized power dependent, like its neighbours & many others, on the American hyperpower. When he was 9 the UK finally properly joined in the European pillar of the US system. /3.

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Andrew Levi

@AndrewPRLevi

21 Sep

The World

A short guide

🔴 US domination of the Euro-Atlantic area remains essential, in any foreseeable future, to:

▪️security of the US eastern seaboard

▪️US global dominance /1.

⚪️ For Euro-Atlantic dominance, in any foreseeable future:

▪️the EU needs the US

▪️the US needs a much enhanced contribution from the EU (the UK is useful, but not essential) /2.

🔵 US domination of the Asia-Pacific region, for which it needs a greater contribution from regional allies is, similarly, essential to:

▪️security of the US western seaboard

▪️US global dominance /3.

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Andrew Levi

@AndrewPRLevi

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.

🔻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.

🔻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.

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Andrew Levi

@AndrewPRLevi

12 Sep

@DavidGHFrost

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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Andrew Levi

@AndrewPRLevi

10 Sep

🇬🇧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.

Meanwhile, back in Britain, due to an insane policy no one wants any longer to admit being responsible for, all the Romanian and other truck drivers from the 500 million population continent which used to be the UK’s domestic market, … /2.

… for goods, services, people and capital, have quite understandably decided they’d rather stay as far away as possible from the 67 million population mess which badly needs them. Permanent food shortages now predicted.

Still, you’ve got to laugh, haven’t you? /3.

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