@SteveLawrence_ Hi Steve, in no particular order and with little sleep, I see opportunities to: 1. Build rejoin campaign 2. Secure proportional rep (internatl Labour Movement, we need your help getting tribal @UKLabour on board) 3. Written constitution 4. Electoral reform re finance, digital /1@SteveLawrence_@UKLabour 2/ + mandatory voter registration 4. Written constitution 5. Oversight by @osce_odihr & UN/EU fragile democracy rapporteurs 6. Civic educ, media literacy skills via teach-in model eg USA civil rights era 7. ONS oversight on exodus rates 8. Sustainable journalism
Aug 27, 2018 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
<thread>1. To reify means to take a process & make it static like an object whilst endowing that “object” with special powers.
Referendum voting was a flawed process in which Electoral Law was broken by domestic organisations. It was also flawed b/c of who was disenfranchised.
2. Following flawed process that was subject to criminal acts, the RESULT was reified.
Meaning, made like an object with magical powers.
The BBC, newspapers & major political parties cooperated in the reification of the result.
UKIP agenda treated as worth appeasing.
Aug 26, 2018 • 33 tweets • 19 min read
Back @BylineFest for day 3 - starting here in Forest Forum to hear @RVAwonk@J_amesp @zabrinazabrisky chaired by #BylineFest best-dressed chair Peter York
Audience member @stonesister7 offered to explain the #AltRight as a fake term invented by #SteveBannon - what are we taking about is #Nazism - to make it sound hip & trendy & it’s working
Luke: summer 2016. When Manafort became campaign manager whom Luke had met in Ukraine who was consultant transforming Yavchenko. What was he doing in Soviet Empire?? He was best connected political lobbist in area. Pre-Steele!