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26 Sep, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Excellent piece by John Harris. The main issue with our politicians is their mediocrity & lack of experience of good strategic planning except in the basic sense of party politics. They all appear to be completely out of their depth without any coherent

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
vision for the country nor any ideas about implementation. This applies to Labour as much as to the Tories, not to speak of the LD & Greens. Parties should embark on a massive recruitment drive of people who actually know their stuff but the issue is that politics are so debased
that they ceased to attract talented experienced people. Plus they are not wanted by the politicians who fear their incompetence being exposed (as shown by Johnson's sacking his most talented MPs - the competent Gauke &
the interesting Stewart.) Debates are no longer about ideas & ad hominem attacks of the crudest sort- including death threats presented as "jokes"- are common at all levels & from all parties. How we get out of this deplorable state of affairs, I have no idea but starting to
listen to the experts rather than the Gove & Frost (who said he didn't "believe" in the impacts of non-trade barriers- as if it was a matter of "belief "!) of this world would definitely help.

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28 Sep
Interesting thread by Paul Mason. But...
To win power Labour needs at the very least some form of pre-GE pact with the LD. Without this, the very best case scenario imv is a hung Parliament & Labour+LD (even adding a few Green seats) are unlikely to be enough
for a majority in HoC. Post GE, LD's price to cooperation will be PR.But Labour will insist on a referendum as it won't have PR in its manifesto (at best a vague comittment to a review as an olive branch to members'anger). A referendum will take a long time to set up
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27 Sep
This is so disappointing. I am so angry. Obviously a stitch up between the leadership & the Unions apparachiks so the leadership can pretend to have clean hands. Old stalinist tactics.
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Now those who believe in injecting a dose of PR in our dying political system have only one option: desert Labour, vote Green or Liberal Democrats
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27 Sep
"For it’s vital to recall that, despite claims to the contrary from some Brexiters since,Brexit was not sold to leave voters in terms of ‘sovereignty’ at any cost. They were promised that, at the very least, it had no costs and that, actually, it would mean lower prices,
better public services, more trade, and more prosperity. There would be no crisis to be ‘survived’. And this is not some long-gone history – it was only a shade over the normal length of a government’s term in office.
ormal length of a government’s term in office. So although neither hard core Brexiters nor their hard core followers amongst leave voters will ever have a change of heart, whatever happens, it needs only a fairly small number of leave voters to recognize the grotesque
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25 Sep
Excellent
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In Co2 shortage: "Open a can of pop if you said Northern Ireland& treat yourself to another if you knew the reason why: because Northern Ireland remains part of the single market for goods, which means its bottling plants could get their carbon dioxide supplies from the EU.
The rest of the UK had no such luck, with the government forced to pay an undisclosed but doubtless hefty chunk of our money to a US company to keep two CO2 plants open, because … Brexit
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24 Sep
Food security was also an issue in the 70s. "Take back control" is a risky delusion when a country is so dependent on others. In any international crisis Britain is particularly vulnerable. It is, as noted by Mark Carney, dependent on the kindness 2/
of strangers. This is true in many areas: food, pharmaceuticals, energy, security. Brexit compounds the damage. It acts as a multiplier. Britain needs friends in its close neighbourhood. Yet our PM & his crew go out of their way to insult & attack our EU partners.
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23 Sep
Très bonne analyse de @quatremer confortée par le communiqué joint France /US ou Biden pour la premiere fois exprime le support américain pour une defence européenne autonome complémentaire de l' OTAN.
"The United States also recognizes the importance of a stronger and more capable European defense, that contributes positively to transatlantic and global security and is complementary to NATO."
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