Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn@respublicae.eu

The Times tells us that this incident is embarrassing to the government because it had been warned about Russian campaigns of “influence and spying.” Funnily enough, the Russian role in Brexit is not mentioned in this article.
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[2024-02-07 21:17 UTC]

Geoff Martin has wise and interesting things to say about the new beginning for Northern Ireland. See
https://fedtrust.co.uk/video-northern-ireland-can-now-face-the-future

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[2024-02-07 21:37 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Given that the Conservative Party now despises and repels the comfortable middle class it must try to position itself as the ally of the disoriented and resentful. Johnson had some success in that role. But Rees-Mogg’s attempt to follow in Johnson’s footsteps is unconvincing.

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[2024-02-07 09:52 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: The great advantage for Truss in fantasising about secret Conservatives is that the absence of any verifiable proof that such people exist can be seen as a demonstration of just how secret and oppressed they are. It’s a self-sustaining alternative universe.

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[2024-02-07 12:30 UTC]

Nothing better illustrates the disorientation of today’s Conservative Party than Rees-Mogg’s attempts to behave like a toff and at the same hope to pass for a champion of the excluded. It’s another version of wanting to have your cake and eat it.
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[2024-02-07 13:28 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: The step by step approach may well engender complacency. It will also take years to complete. More importantly, it reflects a transactional and self-interested view of EU membership. That traditional approach failed in 2016. It is no more likely to work this time around.

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[2024-02-07 14:52 UTC]

The Conservative Party is rapidly moving to a space in which it sincerely believes that if the electorate does not agree with the Party then that can only be because the electorate is incapable of making a valid judgement. This opens the door to all kinds of dangerous delusions.
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[2024-02-07 00:28 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Can Northern Ireland move on from #Brexit ?

Geoff Martin is cautiously optimistic in our latest video. But he warns that rifts between and within its political parties could still lead to instability.

with @Brendandonn

https://youtu.be/hmbat_QXovQ?feature=shared via @YouTube

#NorthernIreland

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[2024-02-06 16:10 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Evelyn Waugh claimed never to vote because he would not presume to advise his sovereigns on their choice of government. Jacob Rees-Mogg obviously feels much less inhibited in the royal arena.

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[2024-02-06 12:06 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Jacob Rees-Mogg should recall the fate of other prominent Roman Catholics who held controversial views on the royal family life. Sir Thomas More springs to mind.

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[2024-02-06 12:28 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Marxist theoreticians used to talk a lot about “false consciousness.” Good to see the old tunes given a new airing. It must be traumatic to be a Conservative without being able to admit it even to yourself. But Liz Truss wants to help you recognise your true political nature.

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[2024-02-06 14:25 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: PR is not a perfect system. But it has the advantage of making it much less likely that today’s deranged Conservative Party can be elected to unfettered power on less than 40% of the vote. That is a powerful argument in its favour.

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[2024-02-05 18:22 UTC]

Democracy is a risky business. The electoral system should however be designed to minimise whatever are the most threatening risks in any particular political society. At the moment FPTP accentuates these risks in the UK. Electoral reform is therefore called for.
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[2024-02-05 18:32 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Indeed. But FPTP is at the opposite end of the spectrum from any form of PR. The fundamental question is whether FPTP is acceptable. Once we agree that it is not then there arguments to be had about the form of PR we want.

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[2024-02-05 18:41 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: The formulation is repulsive but not exactly cowardly. In the context of the interview and the selective list of facts Sunak has just mentioned, his accusation against Starmer is pretty explicit.

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[2024-02-05 18:48 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: I’m not sure whether Sunak was “slow on his feet.” When attacking Starmer he speaks about things which “speak to people’s values.” This interview speaks eloquently to Sunak’s values. They are wholly off-putting.

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[2024-02-05 19:01 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Sunak knows he is unpopular with the members of the Conservative Party because he differs in so many ways from Boris Johnson. He hopes that betting £1000 on Rwanda deportations will show said members what a sporting chap he is. Worryingly, he may even be right.

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[2024-02-05 19:29 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: I’m not sure Sunak was bounced into this bet. He’s read somewhere that voters in the Red Wall like a flutter and hopes it will show his sporting confidence in the Rwanda deportations if he puts his money where his mouth is. Sunak’s dopiest utterances often seem to be deliberate.

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[2024-02-05 21:27 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Sunak probably believes betting a thousand pounds on the Rwanda deportations will make him appear more of a regular guy to voters who enjoy putting a tenner every year on the second favourite in the Grand National. The rich are indeed different.

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[2024-02-05 21:45 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: We didn’t hear the end of the story. Perhaps the knife-wielders were murderous Remainers who were pacified by having the benefits of Brexit explained to them. I think we should be told.

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[2024-02-05 23:46 UTC]