Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn@respublicae.eu

RT by @Brendandonn: One of the problems for today’s Conservative Party is that it is not sure whether it wants to conserve things or to rip them apart. Or rather, it wants to do both at the same time. Cakeism born of Brexit has destroyed any coherent political identity for the Party.

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[2023-12-21 15:57 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: It’s also No 10 trying to convince itself and others that it still has some room for manoeuvre. In fact, Sunak is firmly strapped across the railway tracks with no chance of escape as the express train rushes ever nearer.

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[2023-12-21 12:29 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: I did not mean to imply that you were recommending a Trump Presidency. I was echoing the literary theme of “learning through suffering.” Unfortunately the people who do the learning are not usually the people who do the suffering. But the survivors should do the learning anyway.

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[2023-12-20 18:40 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: If Keir Starmer raises taxes less than Corbyn might have done, then presumably that will mean that he is putting money in people’s pockets.

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[2023-12-20 19:08 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: I remember learning at school about Haman in the Book of Esther who was hanged on his own gallows. He was probably pretty furious too at the way things worked out.

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[2023-12-20 15:47 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: There is an element of the Conservative Right which supports Brexit primarily as a way of mooring the UK more firmly in the American orbit. If Trump determines this American orbit, so much the better. Among all the many fantasies of Brexit, this is perhaps the most repugnant.

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[2023-12-20 16:52 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Another Trump Presidency might well have that effect on opinion in the UK. Nevertheless, the consequences for the world at large would be appalling. As they say, experience is the best teacher, but the tuition costs are all too often ruinous. @NickCohen4

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[2023-12-20 18:29 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: The warning against “passive regulatory divergence” is a clever way of hinting that most regulatory divergence from the EU is damaging; a lot of it is unnecessary; and detailed examination will show that only a tiny fraction of it has potential for helping the British economy.

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[2023-12-20 08:57 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: For an ex-investment banker like Sunak there is often no clear distinction between speculative forecasts and present share or bond prices. People living in the real economy however must always make this distinction. Otherwise their families will suffer financial hardship.

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[2023-12-19 22:08 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: This problem of the Conservative Party goes back to 1997, when the anti-European virus affecting the Party prevented Ken Clarke from becoming leader. Since then One Nation Conservatives have spent their time sitting on their hands hoping things would get better. They never did.

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[2023-12-19 14:25 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: History is certainly “woke” in the view of The Mail. History teaches us among other things that the UK is an integral part of the European continent; that the UK did not win WW2 alone; and that the British Empire had many dark aspects. All these lessons are anathema to The Mail.

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[2023-12-19 11:23 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: To be fair, today’s Conservative Party has become so mired in intellectual and political corruption by Brexit that no “clues” Sunak might possess would provide an escape hatch for his Party. Johnson was right in claiming Brexit would be a titanic (Titanic) event for the UK.

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[2023-12-19 00:47 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: If people don’t trust a word uttered by Baroness Mone, but don’t trust a word uttered by the government either, what are they logically to make of the Government’s denial of her claim that they knew all along she wasn’t telling the truth? These are deep, deep waters Watson.

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[2023-12-18 18:34 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: There is a Freudian slip in Sunak’s protestation that he is taking this matter “incredibly seriously.” If he claims to treat the issue with a degree of seriousness that is by his own admission incredible, how can anyone logically believe in his sincerity?

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[2023-12-18 15:20 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: It’s not just that Starmer likes animals. He apparently also thinks they should enjoy the protection of the law. Such eccentricity must surely disqualify him from ever becoming Prime Minister.

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[2023-12-18 10:31 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Rory Stewart is right to abandon any hope of the Conservative Party’s ever returning to rationality and moderation. One Nation Conservatives have spent thirty years hoping for this return. It has never happened and they have been picked off one by one. Appeasement doesn’t work.

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[2023-12-17 21:49 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: I think they should form a new party. They might well be able to record a result in the next GE comparable to that of Reform. If Reform are not challenged in the GE the drift of British politics and particularly of the Conservate Party towards the radical right will contnue.

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[2023-12-17 22:05 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: And I read what he said there. It was shocking and absurd at the same time. Blaming all the country’s problems on a social or racial minority is a dangerous and distasteful road to be going down. Brexit’s dishonesty and irrationality have distorted our entire political system.

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[2023-12-17 17:08 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: There may well be some voters who behave in that way. . But they will not generally be “traditional” Conservative voters. A large slice of “traditional” Conservative voters find Reform and today’s Conservative Party equally unattractive. They will abstain or vote LibDem.

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[2023-12-17 17:44 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: This process has been going on for a long time. There were until recently a small number of One Nation Conservatives like Clarke, Grieve,Heseltine and Gauke. But their personal prominence sometimes obscured the radical rightward shift of most of their party for the past decade.

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[2023-12-17 15:08 UTC]