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When asked what her biggest achievement was, Thatcher replied "New Labour".
The biggest achievement of Vote Leave,Johnson, Cummings,Gove is "Blue Labour": absolute victory in the culture war+the shift right in the Overton Window on "social conservatism" (aka nativist nationalism)
The biggest achievement of Vote Leave,Johnson, Cummings,Gove is "Blue Labour": absolute victory in the culture war+the shift right in the Overton Window on "social conservatism" (aka nativist nationalism)
2/ The biggest pro-European movement in Europe, 6 million+ signing a revoke petition, millions marching repeatedly: all abandoned by politicians now - not even willing to point out the insanity of lorry parks, trade frictions, leaving the SM, CU, sea border within UK
3/ the twenty-dimensional chess of Starmer's "can't say anything to upset the gammons" Brexit policy will result in the UK only possibly rejoining the EU after I'm long dead.
4/ Bad enough losing Brexit without our politicians giving up openness, fairness - the values we believe in - that underpinned our motivation to prevent Brexit.
5/ We haven't just our FoM, destroyed our economy etc., we have our political leaders declaring failure in the culture war on our behalf.
6/ The new political normal is appeasing the cherry picked ex-UKIP counsellors of a question time audience.
7/ You know something's rotten in the state of Denmark when the latest conference speech by the Labour leader is strongly endorsed by both Matthew Goodwin and Harry Cole.
9/ Even if Labour wins the next general election, ex-remainers have still lost.
Not only is Brexit unlikely to be reversed, not only is Labour unlikely to back the single market (not a peep out of them during A50 on this - because FoM)....
Not only is Brexit unlikely to be reversed, not only is Labour unlikely to back the single market (not a peep out of them during A50 on this - because FoM)....
10/ But the only opposition party has abandoned the values of pro-Europeanism anyway.
And all to win that minority subset of seats crucial to swinging an election under FPTP.
Most of us are completely irrelevant to General Election outcomes.
And all to win that minority subset of seats crucial to swinging an election under FPTP.
Most of us are completely irrelevant to General Election outcomes.
11/ And the Labour party has done the sums that the only way of beating the Tories is to copy them. Same as 1997 re: spending promises. But this time they are copying their conservative values instead.
12/ Cummings ONLY achievement - and it's a political one not a useful one: was to destroy the opposition in the culture war and create Blue Labour.
Nationalism is not in the national interest.
Nationalism is not in the national interest.
13/ So - if you are not a nationalist - if you are open and pro-European, there is no English party that has got your back. You are now represented by nobody. You are politically homeless.
14/ I wonder what the effect of this will be - whether there's any hope for a new political party that does represent us. If history is a guide, this is no hope at all.
New parties don't succeed and first past the post crushes new entrants.
New parties don't succeed and first past the post crushes new entrants.
15/ I guess that means we are now on the scrapheap for the forseeable future.
As far as politicians and politics goes, we don't exist - because our votes don't matter and don't influence general elections.
As far as politicians and politics goes, we don't exist - because our votes don't matter and don't influence general elections.
