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Rejoiners - if you want Labour to listen to us, then you have to threaten to deny it your votes. That is the only way to ever get a chance of rejoining the EU or Single Market.

The local elections are a good chance to show rejoiners are an electoral force. Vote pro-EU
#RejoinEU
The same goes for supporters of PR. Labour will only listen to you if you threaten to deny it your votes. Facts, reasons and Conference votes will have no effect. Only the threat of electoral defeat will force the Labour leadership to support PR.
Leavers bullied Cameron into a referendum and May into Brexit extremism by making a very clear threat to vote for UKIP. Rejoiners and PR supporters must learn from that and apply a similar form of pressure on the Labour leadership.
Brexit supporters weren't afraid of voting for UKIP and so letting Labour win. But Rejoiners and PR supporters are afraid of letting the Tories win. Because we are driven by fear we lose, and we will continue to lose over and over again until we abandon our fear.

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Nick Reeves #StandWithUkraine #FBPE #PATH Profile picture
Mar 27
1/ If you want us to rejoin the EU or Single Market, if you want Freedom of Movement restored, then you should seriously consider voting for pro-EU parties in the local elections. Only when politicians see that Rejoiners are an electoral force will they listen to us.
#RejoinEU
2/ While the Labour leadership knows it can take Rejoiner votes for granted it will ignore us and will continue to pander to the dwindling minority of hard core Leavers. If it fears the loss of Rejoiner votes it will act to keep us on board.
3/ Does Labour need to go full blast for rejoining? Of course not. It could just say that if there was a strong majority for rejoining the SM or EU, then as a democratic party it would have to listen to that majority.
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Mar 25
1/ Boris Johnson used Jo Cox's murder and the threat of terrorism to intimidate MPs into supporting Brexit. He wasn't the only leading politician to use the threat of violence to scare MPs into toeing the line.

Why have we been so accepting of Brexit terrorism?
#RejoinEU
2/ The Brexit press and leading Brexit politicians used rhetoric that legitimised, encouraged and incited violence. The use of threats of violence for political goals is legally defined as terrorism.
3/ The incitement and legitimisation of Brexit terrorism resulted in threats to MPs so grave that some MPs were intimidated into not supporting Remain. The outcome of key parliamentary votes may have been altered by Brexit terrorist threats.
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Nick Reeves #StandWithUkraine #FBPE #PATH Profile picture
Mar 17
1/ If a few million Rejoiners made it clear that they won't vote for a pro-Brexit party, Starmer and co wouldn't shrug their shoulders and say "Oh well that's the election lost". They would devise a plan to bring the Rejoiners on board.
2/ Labour could say that if a clear majority of voters show a strong desire to rejoin the Single Market or EU, then as a democratic party Labour would have to listen to those voters, and respect their wishes.
3/ It would be very difficult for the pro-Brexit media and politicians to effectively attack a Labour policy based on respecting the will of a clear majority of voters. Labour could very effectively accuse its critics of being anti-democratic.
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Mar 11
Westerners make a grave mistake in thinking Putin escalates in response to what he sees as Western threats. That is a west-centric delusion. Putin is a Russian imperialist who seeks to increase his own power and enlarge Russia's empire.
It is Western imperialist thinking that makes people think of Putin only in terms of how he reacts to the West. He is not some kind of automaton responding to what the West does. He has his own goals and ambitions in regard to which the West is merely an obstacle to be overcome.
That Putin is a power-hungry imperialist is not extraordinary. From a historical perspective, until recently almost all powerful national leaders pursued the goals of increasing of their personal power and acquiring territory through war.
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Mar 4
1/ The thing about fascists is that at core they feel weak and powerless. That is why they feel threatened by things like face masks. It is why they crave the opportunity to stamp their power all over others, in the deluded hope that it will make them feel strong on the inside.
2/ But power can never appease the fascists' inner feelings of powerlessness. The inner voice continues to mock them with "You are weak and pathetic". And that drives them to ever more rage, ever more desperate abuses of power, ever more frantic attempts to feel strong.
3/ If you try to debate with fascists on social media, you'll soon find they've no interest in facts and reasons, instead they try all kinds of tricks to mock and humiliate you, and so give themselves a fleeting impression of being strong and self-assured .
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Feb 16
If Remainers want the UK to rejoin the EU or the SM then we have to make it clear that we will never vote for a party that refuses to listen to the pro-EU majority. Labour has to earn our votes, not demand them with menaces about a Tory victory.
#RejoinEU
Labour doesn't have to say it would lead the UK back into the EU. That is a straw man argument. It should say that if a clear majority of the British people support rejoining, then, as a democratic party, it would have to listen to that majority and act accordingly.
Many Remainers say we must vote Labour regardless of its EU policy because of blah blah.... If Leavers had taken the same stance we would still be in the EU. For all their faults the Leavers showed guts and resolution unlike a lot of Remainers, who cower at the slightest threat.
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