Andrew Haslam-Jones

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In a nutshell. 👍
(The only way is Article 49.)

Alternatively, what made it effective in the first place?

Tehran Tadhg on X: "The British Empire, but it's a school reunion in Cork https://t.co/98WcUDCoPT" / X The British Empire, but it's a school reunion in Cork https://t.co/98WcUDCoPT

Oh, come now (only a shame it’s not on here):
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But a lot less, challenging the current economic framework. And if the returns agreement works. then we would return to the position pre-Brexit when the threat of returns dissuaded the vast majority from trying to cross.

And if by allowing safe routes, you removed 70-80% of smugglers’ market, you’d kill their business model (which, incidentally, is maintained by successive UK governments clamping down on safe routes).

Agree strongly. FPTP is a very poor way of trying to replicate democracy. Combined with a party system, it restricts our representation to a very small proportion of the population that is obsessed with its team or some abstruse ideology rather than governing the country in the best way for us.

Didn’t they try that with Jewish people in Spain in 1492? I think the Spanish eventually apologised some time earlier this century.

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

They just realised this?

Depius p.13 un alternatif utopique pour le système britannique mais facilement traduit à n’importe quel autre système: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/edvlv...

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I find this concept of “small boats week” deeply unpatriotic.

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social which means that when BBC News floods the airwaves with “concerns” about “small boats” and sincerely questions whether “Rwanda” (ie the forced deportation of asylum seekers to a different country) would have been a better solution, it is only stoking those feelings.

Don’t worry. The social media sock puppets are still active and Elon and the guy who now has access to all our NHS data will surely help out.

Democracy should be about choosing representatives we trust to make decisions on our behalf. The current electoral system is about which team of unelected, unrepresentative (pseudo-) ideologues manages to market itself best so that its chosen selectees are voted for by just enough people.

Yes, but now we know their arguments are twaddle.

Appreciated?

Perhaps, as well as low mortgage rates, the cumulative pressure of low house building rates maintained by the Thatcherite ban on local authorities building council houses?

@danielhewittitv.bsky.social that was a very good, clear and well presented report. It could merit a whole documentary.

Heads up: just spotted this account that looks at first glance as if it might be a legit official @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app account, but it's not - it's a scammer posting phishing links. I've reported it; do be careful of this kind of post in your mentions.

More evidence that the party political systems that we use to elect our representatives bread divisive self-expression rather fostering the election of people whom we trust to make decisions on our behalf.

Trump was presented to me by a young Leave-voting supermarket shelf-stacker as a prime example of a man who “stands up for the working class” in May 2016. The Republican primary was still ongoing. Perhaps that tells you much of what you need to know about the UK media and its role in this.

This video is, unsurprisingly, a mix of straightforward lies and deliberately misleading half-truths.

My earlier analysis on the long-run fiscal impact of recent migrants is here:

docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Dat Trump, de Heritage Foundation en Poetin de Europese Unie kapot willen maken met behulp van figuren die in het verleden leven zoals Orbán, Farage en Wilders geeft wel aan hoe succesvol die Unie is. Een continent dat vreedzaam één wordt, waar democratie en rechtstaat belangrijk zijn is bedreigend.

Brits in general don’t even know how their own domestic system of government works and have no inclination to learn. So, when it comes to the EU, it’s important to understand the subconscious and emotional side that the Leave campaign understood well.

Yes. And that may be because the people who have the power to make or promote such change are by definition the same people who have benefited from the current system.

Once the slender victory had been achieved, the notion that democracy allows a change of heart was diligently lampooned by the same forces that had zealously campaigned for the idiocy in the first place. The public’s ignorance of the Mitylenean debate is not its fault. 2/2

They voted with their guts for a change. Since the EU had never figured large in UK domestic political discourse and then only as the but of feckless journalists’ jokes or incompetent politicians’ excuses, it was possible to persuade just enough people that this change might be good for them. 1/

But you’re right the poison of xenophobia, used to deflect public attention from all the destructive policies that press barons and politicians have embraced, runs deep and is being constantly stoked: “SMALL BOATS!” “MIGRANT HOTELS” as if they had decided not to build council houses or sell them.