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LabourRealists
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Constructive support for the Labour Party in the realist foreign policy tradition [email protected]
London Katılım Mayıs 2024
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In our latest piece we argue that Labour must back Shabana Mahmood's retrospective reforms to Indefinite Leave to Remain.
The Labour Party cannot transfer the costs of a Conservative mistake on immigration policy onto the British people and win the next election.
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We reject the suggestion that these reforms are "Un-British".
It is striking that Angela Rayner, who made this claim, argued for similar reforms last year when she called for migrants with ILR to be stripped of welfare payments.
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MPs must ask themselves: would it be fair to saddle the costs of failed Conservative policy onto the British taxpayer? Read our piece in full at the link below:
labourrealists.substack.com/p/why-labour-m…
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Labour MPs must also look past the superficial arguments put forward by @EmilyThornberry.
It is not plausible to argue for a rise in defence spending and also against these ILR reforms, particularly amidst what @LukeTryl calls "a thermostatic turn against welfare spending
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"Revolutions don’t always come from the pits of despair, they come when rising expectations are checked." writes @OvePM in intro to the new issue of FotL.
Includes:
@arisroussinos on Mandelson
@LabourRealists on Chagos
@aled_mj on 🇬🇧 fables
@DespoticInroad on sovereignty
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Today’s Times article by Ben Judah - Lammy’s FCDO SpAd - certainly doesn’t undermine either half of this Chagos take, i.e.
- The deal’s architects really were trying to hard-headedly advance UK national interests, but
- Their theories of international politics weren’t robust.
David Blagden@blagden_david
Fwiw, this wouldn’t mean that the deal’s architects are treasonous, on China’s payroll, or any of the nefarious claims going around. It would mean they *are* earnestly trying to advance national interests…but doing so based on flawed theories of how international politics works.
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Yet Britain is left straight-jacketed by its adherence to international law that prevents it from cashing in on its strategic choices. A new approach is vital. labourrealists.substack.com/p/labour-is-ma…
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"In a world in which this government had a sense of the strategic moment, and how to achieve its own strategic ambitions, it would permit the use of Diego Garcia in return for Donald Trump’s sign-off on the transfer of sovereignty to Mauritius - progressive ends, realist means"
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In our latest piece we argue the government is making the wrong strategic bets on Chagos. It is attempting to align with a US position that no longer exists, and pursuing an outdated vision of adherence to international law.
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Good take here on the need re-appraise the approach and outcomes desired, re: Chagos and wider international law.
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In our latest piece we argue the government is making the wrong strategic bets on Chagos. It is attempting to align with a US position that no longer exists, and pursuing an outdated vision of adherence to international law.
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this is an excellent, sober essay — do read! 🌹🇬🇧
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In our latest piece we argue the government is making the wrong strategic bets on Chagos. It is attempting to align with a US position that no longer exists, and pursuing an outdated vision of adherence to international law.
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It is not too late for a re-think. The latest crisis has offered the government a final off-ramp. It is vital that they take it.
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