The crisis facing Europe makes an incapable, unfit PM, reviled by key international allies, an even more unacceptable threat than it already was, to the security, prosperity & well-being of GB & NI.
Code red.
Time for action, @Keir_Starmer & true political leaders.
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The largest group of Westminster MPs which still supports constitutional, liberal democracy, is led by @Keir_Starmer.
He should now become PM, backed by the majority of MPs across the Commons who also do so.
Including a third of Conservative MPs.
And all opposition MPs. /2.
With the possible exception of the DUP parliamentary group. Up to them to decide whose side they’re on.
The time for party politics is over. For some years.
Our survival’s at stake. /3.
Sitting in Edinburgh, I respectfully say to my MSP @AngusRobertson, @Ianblackford_MP & @theSNP more widely, the future of all GB & NI is fundamental to the future of Scotland.
I well understand the dismay of people in Scotland watching a descent into dark chaos in England. /4.
I also recognise the deeper roots of support for independence among many in Scotland.
Everyone in GB & NI needs unity of purpose & action by the democratic forces which remain in the majority at Westminster.
We can no longer assume that majority will automatically continue. /5.
Fight for & join a united, democratic coalition at Westminster.
For the whole of GB & NI.
Without pre-conditions on independence.
It matters not just to Scotland.
Not just to GB & NI.
But to our friends & neighbours in Europe & beyond. /6.
… warmongering on behalf of US aggressors, & making binary, anti-Russian judgements, faced with complex, multi-faceted conflict situations & identities.
Wait, I forgot: @STWuk doesn’t “endorse the nature or conduct of either the Russian or Ukrainian regimes”. /3.
Especially when the near hysteria of Sergei Lavrov & Maria Zakharova, now exposed in a brutal information war, does it for you.
If you’re unfamiliar with the faked “Polish attack” on Germany’s Gleiwitz Transmitter, staged by the SS as part of Operation Himmler, on 31 August 1939, start here👇
@gebjon Excellent question. There comes a point in the constant escalation when you run out of resources you can more or less safely steal & distractions you can more or less credibly arrange. /1.
@gebjon You need new opportunities. New territory. Also, successful neighbours show you up & destabilise you domestically. So you have a strong incentive to destabilise & damage them. /2.
@gebjon The need for escalation, BTW, is there because with every act of grand larceny, every brutal murder, you create more reasons for more people to take revenge. (Plus there’s the megalomania & untrammelled greed). /3. End
I’ve asked around, so you don’t have to. Or worry about the steaming piles of ordure presented as insight by much of the British press.
Private & uncensored, from EU sources with long experience of the highest levels of government.
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Russia is run by small gang of people. And they own it. Literally. They’re not a government in any sense we’d recognise. Not even one like Trump’s horrific farce. And certainly no legitimate one. But they have nuclear weapons & a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. /2.
They don’t function - or think - anything like we’re used to. They have to survive. Physically. As individuals. As a narrow clique. That’s their absolute, overriding need. To survive they need massive wealth & they have to escalate. That’s what’s been happening for 20 years. /3.