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2 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
To understand Brexit it's very useful to know about James Buchanan, an immensely influential market fundamentalist economist who believed democracies were parasites and advocated stealth attacks against them. His ideas inspired the mega-rich Kochs.
ineteconomics.org/perspectives/b…
Here's another article on James Buchanan and the Kochs - 'The Ideologues Who Want to Destroy Democracy to Save Capitalism'.

By way of an aside, billionaire Peter Thiel who now has access to our NHS data believes capitalist democracy is an oxymoron.
billmoyers.com/story/more-dee…
In 2018 Liz Truss slammed regulations in a speech to the Koch funded Cato Institute, a US market fundamentalist think-tank backing, among other things, an environmental roll-back after Brexit. The Cato Institute was founded as the Charles Koch Foundation.
unearthed.greenpeace.org/2018/09/19/liz…
Claire Fox, who has been promoted to the Lords is a member of the formerly Trotskyite, now kleptofascist RCP/Spiked clique. Spiked magazine’s US funding arm received $300,000 from the Charles Koch Foundation.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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Nick Reeves #FBPA #FBPE #PATH #ProgressiveAlliance Profile picture
1 Nov
1/ Paul Dacre promoted fascist hate, lies, xenophobia, scapegoating of minorities, anti-intellectualism and the fascist "Will of the People".

The Tories are desperate to have him as head of Ofcom. They are not just a kleptocratic party, they are a kleptofascist party. ImageImageImageImage
2/ Here is Prof Timothy Snyder explaining how right-wing parties are using Nazi propaganda techniques to divide us into friends and enemies. Dacre's rhetoric of the "Will of the People" and division of the people into decent middle England & the chattering classes did just that
3/ Dacre's "Will of the People" rhetoric echoed that of Goebbels after a Nazi referendum victory. In both cases it was intended to divide the people into "The People" and their enemies and delegitimise the core democratic right to oppose. ImageImageImage
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Nick Reeves #FBPA #FBPE #PATH #ProgressiveAlliance Profile picture
31 Oct
Since 2017 a majority of the British electorate has opposed Brexit, while the two main parties, fixed in place by FPTP have supported it. This is a catastrophic failure of British democracy. Labour in particular has failed, and FPTP has become a noose around democracy's neck.
FPTP made some sense while class was the primary axis of political division - two parties representing the two sides of the class division. But deindustrialisation has ended class politics, and FPTP has become a destructive relic of a bygone era.
What has replaced class politics is a fragmented electorate in which a large, mostly poorly educated, part of the electorate disorientated by economic and social change are clinging to the fake promise of safety and solidarity offered by tribal nationalism
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Nick Reeves #FBPA #FBPE #PATH #ProgressiveAlliance Profile picture
26 Oct
Owen Paterson faces suspension for breaking lobbying rules.

Here's an earlier article on Paterson

Randox which employs Paterson as a paid consultant has been awarded a £133m contract without any other firms being given the opportunity to bid for the work theguardian.com/world/2020/may…
2019 - Former cabinet minister and climate-change denier Owen Paterson is closing down his private thinktank, from which he received nearly £39,000 from unknown donors to fund overseas trips.

The stench of what ordinary folk would call corruption. theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
And some more on dodgy Owen Paterson

Tory MP Brexiter and climate change sceptic Owen Paterson makes £100,000 a year from a company that is selling private coronavirus tests for £120 each. buzzfeed.com/albertonardell…
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Nick Reeves #FBPA #FBPE #PATH #ProgressiveAlliance Profile picture
16 Oct
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!
Rees-Mogg's father co-authored "The Sovereign Individual" which forecast that the super-rich would free themselves from national taxation, and ultimately seize control of nation states. Tax havens are key weapons in this kleptocratic war of destruction against democracy.
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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Nick Reeves #FBPA #FBPE #PATH #ProgressiveAlliance Profile picture
14 Oct
Dear Dominic Cummings what is 'elite Remain'? After the referendum almost all the leading Remainers instantly turned into frothing Brexiters - meaning they never were Remainers. No Remainer would collude in inflicting Brexit on the British people. At best they are opportunists.
The top echelons of the Remain campaign were staffed by politicians who either were closet Brexiters (not so closet in Corbyn's case) or cynical opportunists blowing with the political wind who really didn't give a damn whether we stayed in the EU. And we still won 48%!
The Remain campaign was basically nobbled from the beginning by being staffed by politicians who either actively wanted it to fail, or didn't really care what happened so long as they could advance their careers.

Brexit has been a catastrophic failure of UK democracy.
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Nick Reeves #FBPA #FBPE #PATH #ProgressiveAlliance Profile picture
12 Oct
1/ For a social class to be a political force requires much more than 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 politics these have crumbled.
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/ 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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