Roland Smith
Brexitologist and disillusioned former Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute. Posting on Brexit, the populist & conspiracist fallout from it and the political Right's general descent into hell. Curator of mad Telegraph headlines
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- Yup. It's crystal clear that those still claiming Starmer has a secret masterplan to have a join the EU/SM/CU manifesto by the end of this parliament needs to lay off those meds. Anyone who wants a meaningfully closer relationship with the EU needs to find another party to support. #r4today
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- BREAKING: The Scottish Parliament has voted in favour of legalising assisted dying, becoming the third parliament in the British isles to vote in favour of the practice.
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- This bears repeating given recent events:
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- The real tragedy is that Island of Strangers would have made a perfectly decent title for a Booker -nominated novel and they've spaffed it on nativism instead.
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- And politically stupid, too. Alienates core vote (& they do have places to go) in pursuit of votes he'll rarely get, & demolishes his core policy agenda of growth, making his re-election more unlikely. Even those (inc. me) willing to cut him a lot of slack feel betrayed. A truly awful day for UK.
- Hard to say how disappointing this morning‘s speech really was. Morally AND intellectually. Agree with every line here by @iandunt.bsky.social 👇
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- She was certainly careful to avoid such overtly racist language in her own foreword to the white paper.
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- It must be a sweet moment for him.
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- But the trouble is the government rejected this option. It has not rejected immigration. It has rejected honesty. It has rejected leadership. In that sense it is no worse than the administrations came before it. But for a little while there, just for a moment, there was a chance it might be better.
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- I know the political message is not funny at all but Island of Strangers does sound like a Booker Prize nominee widely acclaimed for its bittersweet polyphonic take on British life
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