RT by @Brendandonn: What Kinzinger says in the American context can be easily transferred to the UK. No true Conservative should now or in the near future vote for the party of Johnson,Truss and Sunak. All of them have brought irremovable discredit to the party that elevated them to power.
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[2023-12-09 21:07 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: The real choices open to the UK in its policy towards the EU are under-investigated because the political class likes to pretend that the UK enjoys a wide range of options. In reality, the alternatives to rejoining the EU are few and all similarly unpalatable.
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[2023-12-09 22:10 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: To be fair, when he set up the enquiry Johnson presumably expected it would meet once a quarter until 2026 and then conclude that the British government had dealt with Covid pretty well. He could hardly anticipate a bunch of woke Remainer lawyers taking the enquiry seriously.
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[2023-12-09 20:25 UTC]
Immigration after Brexit: the Conservative Party implodes
https://rss.com/podcasts/federaltrust/1256626/
via
https://nitter.cz/rss
Freedom of Movement within the EU was a much better approach to immigration than the present chaos. John Stevens and I discuss this topic in the new Federal Trust podcast.
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[2023-12-09 12:26 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: For Sunak to resign now would imply a political and moral coherence in his decision-making for which we have seen little evidence. Sunak is unlikely to “leave the children in his party to sort out the mess.”He is one of the children and has largely created the mess himself.
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[2023-12-09 10:26 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: I can remember when they used to play the national anthem in cinemas before (or was it after?) the films they showed. I shall write today to the S of S for Culture demanding that the practice be reinstituted. It could easily be presented by the Telegraph as a Brexit benefit.
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[2023-12-08 23:28 UTC]
Conservative confusion about migration poses a real danger to the country’s economic future. John Stevens and I discuss at
https://fedtrust.co.uk/video-immigration-after-brexit-the-conservative-party-implodes/
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[2023-12-08 18:24 UTC]
Immigration after Brexit: the Conservative Party implodes
https://rss.com/podcasts/federaltrust/1256626/
via
https://nitter.cz/rss
John Stevens and I discuss the economic and social damage done to the UK by the ending of Freedom of Movement after Brexit.
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[2023-12-08 18:50 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: For a certain kind of Brexiter there is some satisfaction in queueing to show a passport. Travel between European countries should in their worldview not be too easy. It undermines the sense of “otherness” which the European Union exists to soften and ultimately abolish.
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[2023-12-08 15:09 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: There is a reassuring aspect to all this. Dowden is only going through this absurd pantomime because he thinks it will help mitigate the electoral disaster bearing down on his party. He is not and probably never will be in a position to implement his bluster.
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[2023-12-08 15:32 UTC]
John Stevens and I discuss in our new Federal Trust video the Conservative Party’s confusions and divisions on the subject of migration.
https://fedtrust.co.uk/video-immigration-after-brexit-the-conservative-party-implodes/
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[2023-12-08 16:50 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: There is a description of a fanatic as someone who when he has got what he wants can’t remember why he wanted it in the first place. Brexit was a product of unvarnished fanaticism. Its proponents are condemned to argue for ever about what the point of it all was.
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[2023-12-08 11:32 UTC]
I wonder how high the cost of the Rwanda nonsense will rise before the TaxPayers Alliance or similar body decides to hire a bus and use it to call for the money involved to be spent on the NHS. That would be a genuine saving, not a fictitious one.
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[2023-12-08 08:48 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: It will have been a stunning vote of confidence if Sunak wins it and a trivial sideshow if he loses it. This is par for the course in today’s Conservative Party. It’s only Remainer elitists who believe that two contradictory propositions cannot be true at the same time.
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[2023-12-07 20:51 UTC]
Brexit brought cakeism into the heart of British politics. It is now the dominant philosophy of the Conservative Party.
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[2023-12-07 22:38 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: Two factors weighed with otherwise decent Conservatives. They did not want to imitate the disloyalty of the Eurosceptics. And it was socially and personally convenient for them to hope that their Party would anyway soon return to sanity. It’s now too late to undo their errors.
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[2023-12-07 18:42 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: It is ironic that Sunak claims his patience is wearing thin and at the same time sets about appeasing the lunatic fringe of his party. Traditionally, people who claim their patience is at an end are the beneficiaries of appeasement rather than its hapless promoters.
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[2023-12-07 18:55 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: A clear case of false consciousness on the part of the silent majority. Reeducation is clearly called for. Either that or the Party will have to elect a new silent majority.
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[2023-12-07 15:39 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: Did they not teach Sunak at school which twentieth century historical figure used to go round saying that his patience was at an end? Clue: It’s someone with whom very few British politicians would wish to be even remotely associated.
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[2023-12-07 16:11 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: If I were a Conservative MP wanting to leave the ECHR I’m not sure I’d be over-impressed by a Prime Minister who said we can’t leave because Rwanda wouldn’t like it.
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[2023-12-06 20:27 UTC]
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