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8 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
1/ The Tories continue to lead in the polls. We have to understand that deindustrialisation has shattered the working class as a political force. The opposition has to cooperate in a Progressive Alliance or face a further defeat.

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2/ Deindustrialisation has shattered the working class communities and organisations that formed the backbone of the Labour party. Disorientated voters are now clinging to the fake community of tribal nationalism, and the Tories are taking full advantage. sussexbylines.co.uk/un-divide-to-c…
3/ For a social class to be a political force requires much more than a lot of people being in similar economic circumstances. It requires well developed communities and a web of organisations linking them to a political party. In the British working class these have crumbled.
4/ If we don't understand the political impact of deindustrialisation, then we will be stumbling around in the dark, unable to formulate strategies to deal with a radically and irrevocably transformed political landscape.

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Nick Reeves #FBPA #FBPE #PATH #ProgressiveAlliance Profile picture
8 Oct
1/ The absurdity is that we are even having this debate. A normal Western European country would have completed HS2 at least a decade ago. But there are issues with the eastern branch around capacity on the London leg.
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Rachel Reeves says Labour has 'moved on' with regard to Brexit and that Labour will not restore Freedom of Movement.

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2 Oct
I wrote this article explaining how people disorientated by the crumbling of working class communities are clinging to the false promises of Tory tribal nationalism. Tribal loyalty is deeply emotive, and very resistant to contrary reasons and facts.
sussexbylines.co.uk/un-divide-to-c…
Humans are very much tribal beings. In times of social stress we tend to seek safety in a tribe. The only available tribe in England is the nation-tribe. As with family, tribal loyalty is deeply emotional. To disagree with the tribe is to betray a powerful emotional bond.
So rather than feel disloyal to their tribe people would prefer to hold onto the tribe's opinions regardless of evidence to the contrary. Millions of Germans continued to support Hitler even as the Thousand Year Reich crumbled into ruins.
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Here's a modest little project - a global campaign to eradicate tax havens.

#PATH - People Against Tax Havens.

If you like the idea please retweet and spread the news any way you can, and put #PATH in your name or profile Let's get this moving!
The cost of failure to eradicate tax havens is crime, corruption, lower living standards, higher taxes, crumbling government services, environmental destruction and growing dissatisfaction with democracy.

#PATH People Against Tax Havens
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Even as early as 2012 £13 trillion had been hidden in tax havens by the global elite.

Tax havens are parasites crippling our economies, and destroying democracy.

They must be erased. Please help get the campaign going.

#PATH People Against Tax Havens.

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This is not a small campaign! We need a global campaign to ensure that in every democracy no government can come to power without a firm commitment to the eradication of tax havens.

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29 Sep
How is it that, at least so far, the Tories have been able to get away with governing so negligently? The answer is in this article explaining how economic change has transformed politics, and how the opposition needs to respond
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Tory government negligence is no accident. In the past the Tories served the middle class and ordinary businesses which forced them to govern competently. Now they can win support from voters left adrift by the crumbling of working class communities and organisations.
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