Professor Daniele Albertazzi

It can be very significant if one knows what to do with activists, both on the ground and online. Absolutely.

Uk's Home Office Minister Mahmood visiting a facility hosting asylum seekers in Denmark.

Few people in the UK have the vaguest idea whatever a Danish-inspired approach to asylum might mean 🤔. So the point is to reach Copenhagen, be seen visiting what looks like a prison, stress how "tough" Danish govt is...then wait for those Reform UK voters to flock back to Labour in droves.

Fools.

Uk's Home Office Minister Mahmood visiting a facility hosting asylum seekers in Denmark.

Few people in the UK have the vaguest idea whatever a Danish-inspired approach to asylum might mean 🤔. So the point is to reach Copenhagen, be seen visiting what looks like a prison, stress how "tough" Danish govt is...then wait for those Reform UK voters to flock back to Labour in droves.

Fools.

Front page of the Daily Mail

In politics you can always move right. But you would always -always- "lurch" left...

One other issue here is while there is rightly discussion about what happens if the Iranian regime survives and Trump et al have no plan for what next, there also needs to be more discussion of scenarios where the regime falls and Trump et al have no plan for what next

Well said

Mahmood to press on with immigration reforms despite by-election defeat The home secretary is to double down on plans for Danish-style restrictions on asylum seekers.

Conservatives' big idea was "Australia-style immigration system". Labour has found its "Danish-style asylum system".

Both risk fading into irrelevance due to peculiar "UK-style electoral system", which is helping insurgents now, after keeping them down for so long..

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Yes, and some of his claims are also rather simplistic.

But he is in the right place, at the right time while his competitor is upsetting his own voters day in day out chasing radical right voters...

Labour is in crisis & cannot afford to be so dumb.

Attempts to delegitimise by branding them as extremist are puerile, won't work with voters & MPs alike & will lead him nowhere. There are moments in politics when a little humble pie may be necessary (if hard to swallow), when pretending that you just need to redouble your efforts just doesn't work.

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Yes of course he won't do it, but here is the link just in case:

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I see Starmer is at it again, drawing the wrong lessons from his defeat...

He could invest a couple of hours reading about 'purifier' parties, as those 'which refer to an ideology that has been betrayed or diluted by established parties'. And then think of how to re-engage with his electorate...

"Where were the political scientists when we needed them, pointing out that this had been tried elsewhere and very rarely works"

So by the end of the morning the strategy seems to be: more and better co-opting of Farage's ideas, attacking extremist plumbers for daring to stand for election and promising to work harder than ever before.

Sounds promising.

Starmer portraying the Greens as manic leftist extremists is not going to wash with much of the progressive voters that Labour is losing at an increasing rate.

Much of Labour's core vote view the Greens at worst as a rather harmless group of eccentrics rather than the second coming of Mao Tse Tung.

"Where were the political scientists when we needed them, pointing out that this had been tried elsewhere and very rarely works"

If Labour campaigners and leadership keep belittling the Green Party as a movement and underestimating the skills of Green leaders then Labour is heading straight to electoral oblivion.

Stop refighting past factional wars within your own party and start adapting to new realities.

Semi-official visits to Italy's Ministry of Transport and the US State Department in the space of a few weeks...

We have gone from normalising the radical right to mainstreaming the extreme right in a few years.

Semi-official visits to Italy's Ministry of Transport and the US State Department in the space of a few weeks...

We have gone from normalising the radical right to mainstreaming the extreme right in a few years.

Well, we needed to end the day on a lighter note, didn't we?

Too late to wheel in Romano Prodi and reach a stand down agreement now...

Bunch of fools.

After creating yet another party of 2% (there was a dire need in Italy of one more) General Vannacci leaves the "Patriots" in the EU Parliament to join the AfD's group.

Too late to wheel in Romano Prodi and reach a stand down agreement now...

Bunch of fools.

Italy remains one of the key countries to watch for those interested in how the radical and extreme right right try to out-Salvini each other to attract the same (rather large) pool of voters.

After creating yet another party of 2% (there was a dire need in Italy of one more) General Vannacci leaves the "Patriots" in the EU Parliament to join the AfD's group.

Fascinating case study of what happens when fragmentation meets first-past-the-post coming up on our screens at the end of this Parliament...

Fascinating unless you have to live with the consequences, that is.

"Nation's Destiny Fulfilled"?

The textbooks may call it "The Great British Lottery"...

Fascinating case study of what happens when fragmentation meets first-past-the-post coming up on our screens at the end of this Parliament...

Fascinating unless you have to live with the consequences, that is.

Anyone with a little knowledge of how liberal democracy works around the world can immediately see how non-sensical this kind of rhetoric on American exceptionalism is.

Donald Trump ups tariffs day after Supreme Court ruling against him The president will increase import taxes to 15% on most products coming into the US from Tuesday.

The worst thing of all?

Having to check every couple of hours whatever this insufferable fool is up to this time.

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