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Feb 9 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This from @SecBlinken & @StateDept is the fundamental, strategic truth about Europe, the US & the world.

Power.

The truth Putin & Xi hate.

The truth their Brexiter helpers don’t understand (useful idiots), or do but pretend otherwise (cynical manipulators).

A short 🧵/1.
Here’s how it looks, in a single tweet, @Worldinatweet 👇 /2.
And here it is, fleshed out in 5 tweets (plus a P.S.)👇 /3.
And here are the numbers. (Worth noting EU figures are higher if all EEA is included).

That’s it folks.

Power.

Don’t kid yourselves.

Real “sovereignty” is a function of share in real power.

Very few countries really have it.

The US does. So do EU countries. /4. End

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Feb 4
There’s a three-way tension at the heart of any No. 10 operation, between:

(a) good, strategic governance;

(b) day-to-day, urgent govt needs;

(c) electoral cycle/ shorter-term political imperatives.

A good PM masters it.

A terrible one means …

… huge trouble.

A 🧵/1.
Johnson or no Johnson, the three-way tug-of-war, which affects the whole of government, but is by far most acute in No. 10, militates against effective leadership in the interests of the whole country, while at the same time being fundamental to it in a democracy. /2.
Without sound, strategic governance, chronic - or even acute, catastrophic - failure of the entire country is inevitable.

Day-to-day urgent requirements are both distraction & necessity. Even with the best long-term governance, many & varied crises occur & must be managed. /3.
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Jan 29
Oh dear.

@DavidGHFrost has been writing in @TheSun.

Not a pretty sight. But an interesting one.

It’s part of his leadership ambition. And he starkly reveals (yet again) the malignant emptiness of his Brexit.

I’ve gone through it line by line.

A 🧵/1.

thesun.co.uk/news/17465939/…
“Brexit was about change. It was about putting an end to those old ways of doing things which had failed to deliver for so many in this country”.

OK David. So far, so vacuous. /2.
“We need to get back on that track. We need to get back in line with what our voters want”.

Hmmm. More vacuum. Where’s the beef? /3.
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Jan 28
“No one warned me I was prime minister”

A Twitter masterclass in Churchillian national & global leadership.

By Alexander “Boris” The Great Malevolent Fraud. 1/n Image
No one warned me breaking the law was illegal.

2/n Image
No one warned me an illegal gathering in the garden was an illegal gathering in the garden. But I was only illegal for 25 minutes. So in a limited & specific way. Which, as Churchill wrote in the Magna Carta of the UK, is every PM’s right according to [fake Latin reference].

3/n Image
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Jan 19
The problem we face is that the choice seems binary.

Incompetent vandals “running” the UK. Trashing its security, prosperity & well-being, with epic cluelessness.

Or an organised gang, doing the same, efficiently - for its narrow group advantage.

Is there a third way?

A🧵/1.
By now, there’s no safe way out.

Unless the party system is overridden. For the greater good.

The solution must happen fast. The scale of the damage being inflicted is great, & cumulative. The external political & security environment is deteriorating.

Time is short. /2.
That, of course means, Boris Johnson must go. And soon.

But no past or present member of the Johnson cabinet is acceptable as a replacement. Or as a cabinet minister. /3.
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Jan 18
I mean, I told you folks.

But you wouldn’t believe me.

You thought this was just too insane, too disturbing.

You might think that. I couldn’t possibly comment.

A 🧵 /1.
Enjoy👇

/2. End
(Charlotte Gill is the Deputy Editor of conservativehome.com)
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Jan 16
So Mr Johnson wants to stay on as PM even if he’s kicked out as Party leader.

Typical of the desperate solipsist.

But he has a point.

The Party can go hang, if he can command a majority in the House of Commons.

How would he achieve that?

A 🧵/1.
Given how distrusted & disliked he is: with a high degree of certainty, no way.

But imagine, just imagine, he had the integrity & insight to understand he’s been wrecking the country by pandering to an extremist minority (a majority of his MPs).

And that he has to stop it. /2.
If he ditched the extremists, & took around one third of his MPs with him to strike a deal with the opposition parties, he could be instrumental in creating a new government, right now, to save the country.

It’s pretty much impossible to see how he could remain PM. /3.
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