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Staedtler

15 Oct, 7 tweets, 1 min read

Labour needs a policy on Brexit. What can they choose from

They could say this is a wonderful Brexit. the best possible Brexit. People would think they're idiots. Even the Tories don't like this Brexit and they invented it.

They could say they want Brexit but a different Brexit.
But which one? Theresa May's customs union? That's the only other one there is. The Irish Sea one, or the customs union.

If labour wants the single market and customs union but without free movement, then they're in that blood and soil nativist cesspit of UKIP and the BNP.

This is actually Labour's current policy. Europe without free movement. They don't make a big noise about it, but that is what they want.
When Labour says negotiate a better deal, that's what they're talking about

I don't know if Labour believes foreigners are poisoning the well, but their policies assume it, so they may as well believe it.

I'm drawn to the unpleasant conclusion that Labour is a racist party. Keir Starmer has done a lot about antisemitism, and that's good.
But

If Labour believes that foreign workers are poisoning the economic well. If that is his problem with Europe, or his party anyway, that's not a party I'm going to be voting for.

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Brexit is like a psychological Berlin wall. Look at all its concrete pilings and barbed wire. look at its watchtowers and searchlights. All the soldiers to and fro protecting the purity of Brexit

No one is allowed to question Brexit. No one is allowed to challenge it. Brexit is the people, and if you're anti Brexit, then you're anti people.

But no matter how much you shout at it and mount searchlights along it, and put up checkpoints

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Like I keep telling everyone - my goldfish - Johnson has got a phantom majority.
He's got a majority for all sorts of things like selling seats in parliament and political bribes. But not for Brexit.

It works like this.
Johnson has got a party committed to and expecting to see a total Brexit. That can be done only if you leave Northern Ireland behind.
Because Johnson can't put a border in Ireland

And this is the difference between real government and loudmouth boasting. In real life - not the playpen Johnson is familiar with - government carries responsibility.

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The Eight Fuck ups of Brexit.

Set the scene
The Tories are split over Europe, but they keep winning elections. The country won't stop voting for them, and they won't stop squabbling.

Cameron was in coalition with the Lib Dems for five years, so Europe didn't come up much. Then he won a majority of 10.
So far so ordinary

Fuck Up Number 1

Labour elected Jeremy Corbyn.

Corbyn was, and indeed still is, a crank. The first warning sign the country was sick was the huge number of people who ever thought he was fit to lead a party, never mind plausible prime minister.

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I think the answer is that Johnson can't conclude Brexit.
He's finished if he puts a border in Ireland, he's finished if he puts it in the Irish Sea, and he's finished if he stays in the single market.

Johnson has got a majority only as long as Brexit is still open. As soon as he tries to conclude it his government will collapse.
But if he doesn't conclude it it's going to stink him out like a corpse in the sun

I could be wrong, but Johnson is going to have to resign pretty soon if he can't finish Brexit. And then we get another election because the Tories still can't do Brexit. Or Johnson calls an election himself.

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I'll tell you what's wrong with Britian's parliamentary system - oh, I'm so glad, I was hoping somebody would.

I've said before that government and parliament should be two separate entities instead of this freakshow we've got where the government is produced from the well of the general parliament.
But why? Oh yes.

It's because there is no restraint. That's what parliament is supposed to be. In its more fantastical moments it even believes itself to be.

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16 Jul

You don't understand that England is experiencing a total system failure.
The country is being destroyed by the most expensively educated people you've got.

Your country is failing but you're not interpreting the failure.
Countries don't just destroy themselves overnight. It takes time and effort

Brexit and Botty Johnson, these are not random events that spook out of nowhere. Your country has destroyed itself, but systematically over many many years.

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