Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn@respublicae.eu

RT by @Brendandonn: What does it say about the state of British politics if the people who vote for Sir Keir Starmer hoping that he is telling porkies turn out to be right? I’m not sure whether we should rejoice in that prospect or not.

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[2023-12-11 22:55 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Nothing new here. For twenty years One Nation Conservatives have remained in their party precisely on the basis that their continued presence will marginally mitigate their Party’s degradation. Instead of mitigation, complicity has been the only outcome of their over-optimism.

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[2023-12-11 23:05 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: We are now perhaps about to see what happened to Lab in 80s happen 2 the Tories. Tories hopefully will be out of power for decades whilst a Kinnock type loses GEs but slowly turns Tories into moderates again.

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[2023-12-11 23:25 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: “Perhaps” is the operative word. Anti-European derangement is now embedded in the Conservative psyche. It is not something which can be expelled by the normal political process of short or even medium term electoral reverses. The cancer has bitten more deeply than that.

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[2023-12-11 23:32 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: I think there is little point in being politically active unless you are trying to change the context in which you are acting. Of course you cannot usually create a completely new context, but simple opportunistic acceptance of dire existing circumstances is contemptible.

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[2023-12-11 23:58 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: “What did the President know and when did he stop knowing it?” (Question posed of Nixon during Watergate scandal.)

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[2023-12-11 18:02 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: If the British political system can live with the prospect of being rule-takers under the EEA why can it not live with the prospect of being rule-makers within the EU? It seems a kind of reverse cherrypicking.

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[2023-12-11 15:14 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: They might. But the important thing is to get the process started. Voices of doom saying we can never rejoin are a recipe for resignation and inaction.

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[2023-12-11 10:29 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Yes indeed. And to ramp up the irony , this political and media class spend much of their time telling each other that it is public opinion that will never permit the UK to rejoin the EU. At some point the British public will get fed up with politics through the looking glass.

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[2023-12-11 12:37 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: The lesson of history is that the future will always resemble the past, except where it differs. And the choices of individuals can make that difference.

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[2023-12-11 13:10 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: I would be very happy with Gary Lineker as a political reporter for the BBC and Laura Kuenssberg as the Corporation’s football analyst.

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[2023-12-11 13:18 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: 11/END AND CONCLUSION:

It seems pretty obvious to me that, bar some very dramatic surprises, we'll return to the European fold without much hoohaa in the early 2030s. I've been saying this for some years and Wolf gives me no reason to revise my prediction.

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[2023-12-11 00:49 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Wolf’s argument that Leavers would view rejoining the EU as “betrayal” and Remainers would see it as “revenge” served to create an appearance of objectivity from the writer. The phrase “false equivalence” comes to mind.

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[2023-12-11 09:59 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: It would be an odd future in which all the UK’s problems were blamed by the public on Brexit but the possibility of rejoining the EU remained as taboo a political subject as it now is. The topic of reversing Brexit cannot easily remain for ever outside the political mainstream.

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[2023-12-10 23:00 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Nobody can predict today the exact reaction of the EU to a British application to rejoin. There may be conditions for rejoining unwelcome to some in this country. But if we don’t apply to rejoin, there will be no reaction at all, and we will be left forever wondering.

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[2023-12-10 21:14 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: This is a strange invocation of 'the nasty party' tag, coined by Theresa May in 2002, because it suggests that it meant infighting and disloyalty to the leadership. She did make reference to that in the same speech, but that wasn't what she meant by 'the nasty party'. 1/3

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[2023-12-10 18:54 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: The amazing thing is that such tendentious and questionable analysis is all too often regarded as “pragmatic” and “realistic.” What counts as realism and pragmatism very much depends of course on where you start from and where you want to end up.

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[2023-12-10 18:57 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Most voters have concluded already that the Conservative Party is the nasty party. But the voters still wondering if the Party has lost all grip on reality will have their suspicions confirmed if Johnson or Patel manage to get anywhere near Downing Street.

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[2023-12-10 19:12 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Martin Wolf’s view about the UK’s perhaps never rejoining the EU is a common one in the media establishment. But it is a patronising, even insulting view of the British electorate to insist that it is incapable of both recognising and then reversing the manifest error of Brexit.

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[2023-12-10 15:47 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Interesting that for Bill Cash the “Conservative family” apparently only includes his nearest relatives. All this points clearly towards the civil war that will rage after the next election about the Party’s identity. The moderates are not well placed to win this civil war.

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[2023-12-10 16:17 UTC]