Priti Patel has quietly been stuffing even more punitive anti-protest powers into the policing bill

Patel is attacking the very basis of our democracy. This is the kind of legislation the Chinese government would want to use in Hong Kong.
inews.co.uk/opinion/priti-…
Johnson's 'Fuck business' and shambolic CBI speech are no accident. The Tories no longer represent themselves and ordinary British business. The Tory elite serves only itself and its super-rich often offshore backers. Neither of these groups has any care or need for democracy.
I do not believe the Tory elite is conspiring to destroy democracy. But whenever particular democratic rights, liberties and structures become a nuisance, the Tories will seek to weaken or erase them. Bit by bit, without any plan, they will dismantle democracy.
I do, however, believe that Priti Patel is a full-on enemy of democracy. Every action she undertakes erodes our democracy, and then there is this image - Patel presenting herself in the style of a dictator in a dystopian movie set in an authoritarian Britain of the near future.

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21 Nov
Please retweet if you want the opposition parties to cooperate in the next General Election in order to get the Tories out.

Current polling suggests a Tory defeat, but a small recovery would keep them in power with DUP help.

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A Progressive Alliance isn't about parties giving up their identity. It should be about strengthening and reforming democracy, including proportional representation, kicking big money out of politics, media reform and genuine regional government.
A Progressive Alliance could be a 1997 style informal pact. But I think that a formal alliance built around a shared commitment to democratic reform could be presented as a new grown-up style of politics, built around compromise rather than schoolboy yah-boo tribal yelling.
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20 Nov
1/ The Tory Brexiters sold Brexit through lies and hate. They colluded in electoral law-breaking, and have attacked the Electoral Commission They attacked the courts over Article 50. They prorogued Parliament and actively avoided investigating Russian interference.
2/ And now these same politicians are enmired in corruption scandals. They're breaking their promises on Brexit and the railways. They're curtailing the right to vote and the right to protest. And they want to curb the courts' power to ensure government obeys the law.
3/ We are ruled, not by a proper democratic government, but by a crooked cabal who serve only themselves and their super-rich paymasters. They are a clique who excel only in corruption, mendacity, greed and incompetence.
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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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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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15 Nov
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.
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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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