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#PeoplesVoteMarch organisers say more than a million people joined protests in central London
[tap to expand]https://t.co/KI8HvOednR #Brexit pic.twitter.com/SeD8az1Ev8

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) 23. března 2019

Cabinet coup plotters want to install an interim leader to deliver Brexit. There is good support for David Lidington but others pushing Michael Gove and Jeremy Hunt

— Tim Shipman (@ShippersUnbound) March 23, 2019

Cue the music.... pic.twitter.com/v8LmXLguqo

— Hardy Man (@TweedStokes) March 23, 2019

No majority on any alternative #Brexit option in the House of Commons. pic.twitter.com/TVOLSiNpP2

— Gavin Lee (@GavinLeeBBC) 27. března 2019

Varoufakis is right, this is a surrender document. https://t.co/4znE5HZwFg

— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) March 29, 2019

KneelB4Zod! wrote:Guy Elster‏@guyelster · 7 min.
#BREAKING UK MPs start voting on #Brexit's withdrawal agreement

Cameron clearly stating that a vote to leave would mean we’d be out after two years and be trading on WTO terms, what’s since been called ‘hard Brexit’. It’s what was meant by Brexit. pic.twitter.com/Xr8J1IgJAf

— SonOfTheNorth (@JReilly77) March 28, 2019

Video has emerged of soldiers on a shooting range in Kabul firing at a target of Jeremy Corbyn. MOD confirms it as legit: pic.twitter.com/qOr84Aiivj

— Alistair Bunkall (@AliBunkallSKY) 3. dubna 2019

KneelB4Zod! wrote:

Video has emerged of soldiers on a shooting range in Kabul firing at a target of Jeremy Corbyn. MOD confirms it as legit: pic.twitter.com/qOr84Aiivj

— Alistair Bunkall (@AliBunkallSKY) 3. dubna 2019

Andrew Bridgen recounts a draft tweet his staff managed to prevent him from sending yesterday: "It would appear the Maybot has gone haywire and no one can find the off switch."

— Thomas Colson (@tpgcolson) April 9, 2019

Mark Francois calls himself and opponents of May's deal the "Spartan phalanx."

— Thomas Colson (@tpgcolson) April 9, 2019

Böhse Tante wrote:

Anon wrote:In times where people are increasingly finding themselves having to work multiple jobs to make ends meet or due to weak labor laws have no choice but to work several part time jobs instead of one full time job, BBC article presents the idea of working multiple jobs as refreshing and wonderful.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47984295

a pitchfork in the yourno's ass would be refreshing and wonderful too.

Government faced an existential test in ‘resolving’ BREXIT. It has failed to do so. The reasons why are simple-providing you look in the right place.

The gold standard of effectiveness was set by the post war Atlee government who despite incipient bankrupcy rebuilt British industry and created a unilateral nuclear deterrent, defying American hostility to both. They nationalised the railways and steel production, created the National Health Service, the national secondary education system, a social security safety net for all citizens, began the de-colonisation of the British Empire, and encouraged the creation of what later became the Common market. They also nationalised the Bank of England.

This was achieved while Atlee and Bevin successfully lobbied for the creation of the UN and while Keynes negotiated with the US government the creation of the ‘Bretton Woods’ agreement creating unprecedented growth and stability in the world economy for thirty years.

And all done in six years!

They succeeded because they identified the needs of British citizens following two world wars and a depression. They campaigned and planned for years to find and then build support for practical solutions to problems previous governments had ignored or lacked the moral fibre to resolve. They created detailed plans, and then checked on the delivery of those plans, constantly improving them.

In contrast the present government have been ‘working on’ Universal Credit since 2010. That is nine years and counting, and seemingly they still haven’t got something that works! Has the policy achieved what they wanted? Nobody can be sure as they were never clear what they intended.

Government currently cannot deal with any ‘systems issues’ that confronts it. It can’t govern because it doesn’t know how to do so. It has neither the tools nor the nous to undertake any national plan or strategy from planning through to implementation.

Government in Britain has since the nineteen seventies been in perpetual crisis, staggering from one disaster to the next, while desperately hoping that the electorate aren’t paying sufficient attention to punish them.

Government USP now comprises the flogging of old, dead, or useless ideas. ‘Any-body want to buy a High Speed rail link? What about another runway at a totally congested airport? How about letting the Chinese build a few Nuclear power stations around the place? Fracking anybody!

So what changed to make governments unable to create, never mind implement or embed change of any scale?

The single reason for the failure is that government no longer represents the voter. It is an administrative entity that serves the interests of the ‘real electorate’. Those people own assets, pay no tax, live in no country but have ‘financial interests’ being actively protected in the City of London, and its off-shore tax and kleptocracy havens.

When a multi-billionaire tells the government he wants something or he might take his ill gotten gains ‘elsewhere’, but which is in opposition to what voters in Middlesbrough or Hull need, who do you think government responds to?

The issue for electors is that the government is unable to pass effective legislation, never mind monitor its outcomes. This is no surprise as neoliberals believe that government ‘gets in the way’ of the achievers, and the innovators, which is irrational alchemy expressed as propaganda, but it is a lie that government has bought and peddles assiduously.

If it has no faith in itself why should we have any in it?


https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/apr/25/huawei-who-could-be-cabinet-leaker