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oddly no-one got around to mentioning it till now
https://twitter.com/JoanaRamiroUK/status/1301850731595661320?s=20
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Great to have a committed European as head of UK Labour, unlike that shilly-shallying 7 out of 10 Corbyn
Starmer will be unequivocally committed to retaining UK rights for EU Citizens.
Keir?
Keir?
https://twitter.com/Another_Europe/status/1302527841796599808?s=20
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- Aug 2008
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- The zero meridian
- Swansea, Gaziantepspor and the Zeugma Franchise
- Bahlsen Choco Leibniz Dark
Remember it was Labour who started this immigration issue after they fucked up by allowing free movement for new member states. Of course the Tories joined in happily but Blair properly unleashed the race card and the hostile environment.
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That Matt Zarb-Cousin tweet, and the Starmer quote within it, are quite something. If I've understood correctly, that shows both wings of the Labour Party taking the "we've left, get over it" line. Difficult not to despair at that, given the catastrophe which is about to be unleashed on us from crashing out of the transition period with no deal.
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Ed Davey is taking the same line- and opposing campaigning to rejoin too
https://twitter.com/TheNewEuropean/status/1301908236313001987?s=20
We have left. We might both think it's the wrong thing to do but remaining is no longer a feasible position.
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I disagree with you on the way forward re Brexit, Nef, but fair point re Ed Davey, the useless suit*. "Listening", FFS. I'm mulling over cancelling my Lib Dem membership, as I only joined because they, unlike Labour, were unequivocally committed to fighting against Brexit. But given my local circumstances in S Cambs - arsehole new Tory MP replacing the lovely Heidi Allen, with the Lib Dems only 3,000 votes behind at the last GE, so that I think the LDs here have the best chance of unseating said arsehole - I will probably stay, just because it is vital to campaign against this government of corrupt gangsters who are destroying our country even if the alternatives are massively sub-optimal.
* I voted for Moran in the leadership election.
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The point is that Remain and the avoidance of Hard Brexit was the issue used to smash the previous Leader over the head for two years until he finally gave in, at which point his chances of winning disappeared and said ardent Remainers suddenly found that they had other, more pressing issues to deal with. I mean "Corbyn is secretly a Leaver and doesn't want to fight to Remain because he wants Hard Brexit" was practically a meme.
Personally, I'd keep hammering on pointing out the lies (that bus has disappeared down the memory hole) and that it is going to be a complete shitshow because they have no plan, but that is just me.
I agree with you on Davey. I thought that the EU was - until now obviously - one of the defining cornerstones of the Lib Dems. Someone needs to keep pushing that this is all a complete fuckup. It's easy enough to label them Yellow Tories as it is without dropping the major differentiator.
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However this is all very disheartening
https://twitter.com/clientjournoexp/status/1305074984394657793?s=21
as is this
https://twitter.com/shirleymush/status/1305114628788285440?s=21
and indeed , this
https://twitter.com/joncstone/status/1305115187922571264?s=21
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- Jan 2012
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- Worthing
- The Hammers, until Mark Noble goes.(he's still there, sort of)
- Garibaldi, dipped in tea.
He's got around 65000 people currently liking an excerpt of his speech https://twitter.com/Ed_Miliband/stat...52766019006469 although I liked this bit better https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1305549526032412673
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https://twitter.com/ta_mills/status/1307241885317111810?s=21
will be an emphasis on patriotism.
And the content is likely to be influenced by the Labour leader's director of policy Claire Ainsley, former head of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation think tank and author of the New Working Class.
She has said values espoused by "working-class" voters span the Remain/Leave divide and can be summarised thus: "Family, fairness, hard work and decency", or as one commentator put it, "flag, forces, family".
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