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15 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
1/ Simon Jenkins thinks that the Manchester-Leeds HS3 is wasteful. How short-sighted can you get? Rail services between Liverpool and Leeds are appallingly slow. HS3 would finally provide proper transport links between three of the UK's greatest cities.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
2/ If the UK were a normal European country HS2 would have been completed a decade or more ago and HS3 would be complete or under construction. Short-termism on all sides of the political spectrum has crippled the development of a proper rail network in the UK.
3/ HS3 wouldn't just reduce Leeds to Liverpool journey times to around 50 minutes. It would link to Hull, Teesside and Newcastle, and finally give Bradford the rail service it deserves.
4/ If routed through an underground station in Manchester also serving other cross-Manchester services, HS3 could transform Manchester from a rail bottleneck into an integrated regional rail hub. Rejecting HS3 is classic short-termist idiocy.

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Nick Reeves #FBPA #FBPE #PATH #ProgressiveAlliance Profile picture
17 Nov
The Tories are dumping the eastern arm of HS2 and HS3. So much for levelling up. A once in a lifetime opportunity to provide proper rail links between our great Northern cities and between the Midlands and Yorkshire and the NE has been thrown away.
HS3 wouldn't just reduce Leeds to Liverpool journey times to around 50 minutes and Liverpool-Manchester and Manchester-Leeds times to around 25 minutes. It would carry trains to Hull, Teesside and Newcastle, and finally give Bradford the rail service it deserves.
If routed through an underground station in Manchester also serving other cross-Manchester services, HS3 could transform Manchester from a rail bottleneck into an integrated regional rail hub. Rejecting HS3 is classic short-termist idiocy.
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Nick Reeves #FBPA #FBPE #PATH #ProgressiveAlliance Profile picture
15 Nov
1/ Polling shows 53% support rejoining the EU against 47% who oppose it. 48% think Brexit was wrong vs 39% who think it was right.

Labour wants to stay quiet on Brexit to recapture the red wall. But should non-Labour folk follow Labour and do the same? I say no. ImageImage
2/ Democracy requires that the views of the anti-Brexit majority are represented. If Labour fails to provide that, then other parties, and political activists have to do that job. It is a travesty of democracy to have over half the population silenced on this issue.
3/ Brexit leaders and many in Labour want to present Brexit as an irresistible political force. That is a lie. In spite of the hostility of most of the political and media establishment Remain gained a majority in the polls in 2017 and has retained it ever since.
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Nick Reeves #FBPA #FBPE #PATH #ProgressiveAlliance Profile picture
13 Nov
What is kleptofascism? Kleptofascism is the harnessing of fascist propaganda themes and techniques by the sociopathic super-rich and their political and media minions. For example, Brexit "Will of the People" rhetoric echoed Goebbels' response to a Nazi referendum victory.
Here is Professor Timothy Snyder explaining how the political right on both sides of the Atlantic are helping themselves to the Nazi propaganda manual, using simple emotive slogans to divide the population into friends and enemies.
What is the goal of kleptofascism? The goal is to install the rule of the libertarian oligarchs and their political hirelings as outlined in the "Sovereign Individual" co-authored by William Rees-Mogg. It's a system very akin to that in Russia - oligarchy posing as democracy.
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12 Nov
Marcus Fysh – Another fanatical Brexiter caught in the spotlight of the #ToryCorruption scandal
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Nick Reeves #FBPA #FBPE #PATH #ProgressiveAlliance Profile picture
12 Nov
In 2003 Sajid Javid took his Deutsche Bank bonus via a Cayman Isles scheme, which he volunteered for, that was ruled by the Supreme Court to constitute tax evasion. He took part in a scheme designed to defraud the HMRC of tax revenue and enrich himself.
nicholaswilson.com/sajid-javid-ho…
Sajid Javid could have declined to join a scheme which very obviously aimed to deprive HMRC of tax revenues, whether legally through a loophole, or illegally. He was already wealthy, so it was greed and disloyalty to the nation that guided his decision.
It's not surprising that Sajid Javid engaged in this tax haven tax-dodging scam. He's a devotee of Ayn Rand the promoter of a cult of amoral selfishness and ruthlessness – in short, the worship of sociopathy.
spectator.co.uk/article/why-do…
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Nick Reeves #FBPA #FBPE #PATH #ProgressiveAlliance Profile picture
7 Nov
A move to rejoin is a long way off. But if Starmer rules it out then he can fuck off. We are the majority and we've had five years of patronising insults from the Labour leadership.

A Progressive Alliance is necessary, but we can and should back pro-EU parties within an alliance
There is no evidence that Labour would suffer from being critical of Brexit, because it never has been critical of Brexit as such.

And Labour's Brexit stance makes it look patronising, insincere, weak and manipulative - hardly a recommendation to the electorate.
What I suspect many people want of government is not merely policies, but a sense of clear and definite leadership, clear principles and the courage to stand up to difficult challenges. A party leadership that looks driven by focus groups and private polling is hardly that.
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