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3 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
So, as expected I got a lot of "diverse" feedback (& quite a few blocks) yesterday for this thread.

So here's another way oflooking at it:
If you really, really believe that its **just Labour'' stopping a progressive alliance answer me this one simple question....
Why dont the LibDems and Greens start the ball rolling with an electoral pact where Greens stand down in favour of LibDems in top 50 LibDem target seats?
With an alliance for PR, a better EU policy, constitututional reform with both parties.
& in return..

electionpolling.co.uk/battleground/t…
..in return the LibDems stand down in favour of the Green candidate in 50 top Green target seats not on LibDem list?

It would be a rapid process to do, involving just 2 parties working together on policy (Climate change, PR, EU & constitutional reform).

electionpolling.co.uk/battleground/t…
A 50-50 deal with 2 parties with similar voting profiles basically a reformist-liberal party with a strong green tradition + a green party with a strong reformist-liberal tradition.

No MP has to stand down, both parties have no problem with candidate stand downs.

So why not?

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2 Nov
+UPDATE+

Friends of Owen Paterson are organising an amendment to delay action being undertaken against the corrupt MP.

This would pause his case while Tory MP John Whittingdale "reviews" the standards system.

If you're wondering where you've heard of Whittingdale before...
Well you're in for a surprise....

John Whittingdale is more corrupt than Owen Paterson.

Which of course is EXACTLY why he has been chosen for this.
His job will be to get Owen Paterson off and break the standards regulatory system.

From 2019:

Essentially the action would see one of the most corrupted Tory MPs - Whittingdale - be given the role of gutting a political neutral & expert standards committee investigation & verdict into another corrupt Tory MP.

This is full on "Hungarian democratic governance level" now,
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2 Nov
This is a difficult to write.
In fact, I’m sure a few will block me after reading this thread.
But it has to be said. Some claiming that a national progressive Alliance is something that can be magicked up simply don’t know what they're talking about.

Lets start with the Greens.
So here’s a question why doesn’t the Labour party form an electoral pact with the Greens?
Surely the Greens would win lots of seats.
The answer is almost certainly – No.

WHY?
The answer is simple – FPTP
But lets start in a strange place – Bassetlaw.
Very “ungreen” politically.
“RedWall” as media call it – Labour now Tory.
What does this tell us about Greens?
Well it had one of the biggest swings in electoral history – massive.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassetlaw…
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1 Nov
For those amused by Morrisons "non EU salt & pepper" the story is actually deeper than you think.

For a start its comepany have a long history of "national gestures", for a start there were...
At the height of the difficult Brexit negotiations, for example, Morrisons changed the name of Brussels Sprouts to "British Sprouts".

All of this was part of a longstanding "patriotic strategy" by the company.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
The company was led by Sir Ken Morrison for decades and was avowedly British refusing to invest abroad....all that is except for Gibraltar as part of his longstanding campaign to keep Gibraltar British. Despite the pack of economic sense it made.
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1 Nov
As i keep telling you…there is simply no point analysing Brexit from a normal political or economic perspective.
It’s utterly pointless.

Brexit & Post Brexit Britain can only be understood as a psychological-cultural development.

This is why we need to work to get govt out.
The level of disinformation is now so high, so emotionally charged & spread by people who a few years ago would’ve been considered relatively rational…that opposition parties and rational actors must deal with this situation as if dealing with a psychologically damaged person.
As anyone who's dealt with this type of situation (as indeed, for that matter, with addiction) will tell you a "step-by-step" process is the best bet to recovery.

Anyone who thinks UK society is going to recover from this instantly in some "euraka moment" is fooling themselves.
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31 Oct
So I was convinced that "Aurora Bosotti" was a made-up name..as its well known that some of the more scurrilous newspapers run quite a few pf their more absurd articles under false names to hide journalists' embarassment.

But the truth, well its even stranger than that..
Yes Aurora Bosotti is real.
One of the most vicious of the new breed of Express "journalists" who specialise in whipped up xenophobic "Brexit as war" reporting with a a significant overlapping role at the Newspaper for stalk-baiting Meghan Markle.

But who is she...?
Well surprisingly she doesnt just have the name as a distant family legacy or as middle class affectation...Ms Bosotti scourge of the europeans, liberals & Scots...is of course Italian...and whats more has impeccable european connections...

Now you may be wondering...
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30 Oct
Boris Johnson, the end of Elizabeth’s reign, Brexit, Irish unification & Scottish independence are not just connected politically they also mark the end of Britain’s post war cultural era.

It marks the final end of empire & the end of a cultural deference to British pragmatism.
There are essentially 3 paths Britain can go down now

1. Holding on dysfunctionally
2. Complete split
3. Euro aligned UK federalism

However paths 2 & 3 are probably just a function of path 1 + time.
The struggle in the upcoming years will be between 2 and 3.

The longer 1 goes on the more the balance is tipped towards 2.
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