This is a strange post from someone I greatly admire @Femi_Sorry
The genius of “Making brexit work” is it reinforces again & again that it’s not working.
How to make Brexit work?
Easy “reduce Brexit problems”
How?
Soften Brexit in areas 1st that even leavers don’t mind…
There’s plenty areas where Brexit is not just damaging but where 90% of the population simply don’t care.
1. SPS/agri standards 2. Erasmus 3. N Irish protocol
By moving on these you force Tories to defend the “indefensible & unloved”.
And you sell this as practical solutions.
These are “easy sells”.
There’s literally no downside.
You sell this as “ending the chaos of Johnson’s Brexit”.
But politically at first you need to get the population with you - are they ready for instant rejoining single market?
Not yet - but a better softer Brexit yes.
..and the important thing is..,you won’t get to rejoin without a softer Brexit first.
You simply can’t.
If someone tells you we can they are lying to themselves or you.
But rejoin is a house we have to rebuild..not a car we have to simply hijack to drive into the sunset in.
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While it’s an article of faith among many anti Brexiters that Brexit is essentially merely a conspiracy to smuggle through ultra right wing economic policies…this can disguise the fact that if it’s is such a conspiracy…it’s a very badly run one.
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Whiles there’s no doubt that much of the impetus for Brexit came from the neo liberal right one of the less discussed issues is that it’s failing EVEN in those terms.
For many reasons…
1. The irony of Brexit is that it shines a light on changes a UK govt makes post Brexit. That many didn’t notice before.
The UK has always been more deregulated than other EU states - but now those that disagreed with Brexit focus on every change made to hold govt to account.
The parliamentary language training scheme was set up principally to help MPs with large numbers of voting constituents who have limited English.
But Shrewsbury’s Polish community is relatively small with majority non voting as they are Polish speaking non voting 🇵🇱 citizens.
Also communication shouldn’t be a problem as not only is the English language ability in the young Britain resident Polish community relatively very high…
…but Daniel Kawczynski is already fluent in Polish anyway.
The target is to get the 30 candidates already set up soon before other constituencies and to fight them “like by-elections”.
Worth remembering that should the LibDems prove successful in just these 30 seats than this is already 50% of the way to knocking out the Tory majority.
With these 30 seats the plan is for “go easy” action by Labour to clear the path for tactical voting understanding.
I will be focussing on these 30 seats intensely in the 1-2 years before the election.
This is doable guys!
We need remainers, Labour & LibDems to help out here.
The festival of Brexit, launched as festival of UK, then rebranded as UNBOXED to avoid the unfortunate “FUK-22” abbreviation is being rapidly scaled down due to Covid.
The original plan - a year long festival in 2022 - has now been reduced to just 7 months.
However given Covid restrictions, visa restrictions & UK’s continuing poor Covid performance the organisers are now focussing on involving UK schools to rescue the £120 million project.
The project may now be forced to launch “more remotely” for its new official launch date just 2 months away on the 1st March if Covid continues to be a problem.
It was clear Labour & LibDems split the focus with Labour on Bexley & LibDems on Shropshire.
But unlike some here who discovered electoral politics last week now confidently condemning Labour...have a think about the actual mechanics of this...
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Anyone with any sense could see what Labour was doing:
a. Promotion of the candidate from LP HQ was at a bare minimum
b. Labour MPs were openly musing on Labour’s chances being less than LibDems
c. Virtually no Labour MPs visited the seat (we’ll come to the exceptions later)
2/ But what about the Local Association?
Now all those angry PA types condemning Labour actually THINK about what being a local activist means..
You spend your life in places like Shropshire where Labour NEVER wins, you push leaflets, get shouted at for zero reward for decades..