Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn@respublicae.eu

RT by @Brendandonn: When many Conservative MPs talk about “unity” what they mean is unity between the various right wing factions of the Party. This is understandable. The past decades have shown that the One Nation wing of the Party is no longer capable of effective action to stand up for itself.

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[2024-02-01 12:21 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: There will come a time in the not too distant future when its enthusiasm for Brexit will prevent a party from being a “credible governing party.”

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[2024-02-01 12:51 UTC]

Commentators sometimes underestimate the damage done to the British political ecosystem by the disappearance of One Nation Conservatism as an effective political force. The vacuum left in the Conservative Party has been predictably filled by eccentric and dangerous sectarians.
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[2024-02-01 13:58 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: I am surprised at this apparent view from European Movement that the reversal of Brexit is a task only for a “future generation” of leaders. This smacks altogether too much of resignation. It also gives a free pass to Starmer and chums on their current European spinelessness.

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[2024-02-01 14:48 UTC]

We need to be very sceptical of the idea, cultivated by the advocates of Brexit, that there is no prospect of reversing Brexit in any foreseeable future. The Brexiters were wrong about everything else. We can show that they are wrong about this as well.
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[2024-02-01 10:44 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: This is too pessimistic Public opinion has moved decisively against Brexit, without any prompting from political leaders. Said leaders are currently lagging behind public opinion. But when they catch up there will be a rush for the lifeboats to get off the sinking S S Brexit.

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[2024-01-31 21:07 UTC]

No argument in the Brexit debate is more implausible than the claim that Leave voters voted to accept the costs of Brexit when they rejected the Remain campaign that warned about these costs. The denial of Brexit’s costs was well captured in the Leave slogan “Project Fear. ”
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[2024-01-31 20:01 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: People like Hartley-Brewer want us to believe that voters accepted the warnings of the Remain campaign and then voted Leave. They have not given up the delusion that it is possible to have slices of cake and eat them at the same time. Intellectual confusion is basic to Brexit.

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[2024-01-31 17:59 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Your self-discipline will make the champagne at 00.01 tomorrow all the tastier. My New Year resolution was to give up prevarication. I’m starting in May.

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[2024-01-31 18:14 UTC]

The alternative to membership of the EU was deliberately left vague by Leave campaigners. The only way to assemble a majority for Brexit was to allow every Leave voter to form their own private fantasy version of Brexit and the consequences that would follow from it.
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[2024-01-31 18:22 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: If there had been a Remainer “plot,” Brexit would have collapsed long ago under the weight of its own contradictions. Unfortunately there was no such plot and Brexit therefore continues to disfigure and distort our whole political life.

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[2024-01-31 18:38 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: The problem with the anarchic referendum of 2016 was that everyone on the Leave side had a different interpretation of what they were voting for. After the referendum they then insisted that their own interpretation was the “will of the people.” Political chaos was inevitable.

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[2024-01-31 10:47 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: When the Maastricht Treaty gave powers of co-decision to the European Parliament an unenthusiastic HMG long referred to this change as the “Negative Assent Procedure.” On European issues, British politicians tend to believe in the power of words to soften unwelcome reality.

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[2024-01-30 19:20 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: It is taken for granted by much of the British political class and its courtiers that the interpretation of what any treaty between the EU and UK implies or entails is solely for the British government to decide. This mirrors the abiding British official hostility to the ECJ.

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[2024-01-30 23:08 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: It’s my hot tip for “Word of the Year” in 2024.

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[2024-01-30 18:31 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: The Conservative Party will be on particularly favourable ground for making this argument when it points to the recent leaders of the country who have emerged from the public school system.

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[2024-01-30 19:00 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: I bet Theresa May wishes she had had someone with a wire at the DUP’s deliberations in December 2017. It would have saved her an awful lot of embarrassment if she had.

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[2024-01-30 14:49 UTC]

In today’s Conservative Parliamentary Party almost everyone is either plotting, or being plotted against, or both plotter and plottee at the same time. If they are none of these things they are on television calling for party unity, until they become part of the next plot.
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[2024-01-30 09:32 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: The Conservative breakdown has been building for decades. The harm this breakdown inflicted on the British state was compounded by the way in which the Labour Party had its parallel breakdown under Corbyn. The jury is still out on the long term success of Starmer’s repair work.

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[2024-01-30 10:37 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Perhaps the reason why today’s Conservatives are so bad at governing the country is that they waste so much time on internecine plots. If they’re not plotting themselves, they make up for it by telling the press all about the plots being hatched against them by their colleagues.

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[2024-01-29 23:59 UTC]