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Tom Collinge
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Tom Collinge
@ThomasCollinge
Deputy Director @progbrit
Katılım Aralık 2013
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Good piece from @joshglancy. My take: @SadiqKhan is right. At the next election Labour should commit in its manifesto a commitment to open negotiations on rejoining the EU. At the end of those negotiations we should put that proposal to the public.
thetimes.com/comment/column…
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Important bit of realism. Manufacturing in Britain, if we want to keep hold of it, will require protectionism or subsidy, like this. That will make us a bit poorer. Addressing high input costs (substantially energy for steel) would reduce that cost a bit, but it'll still be high.
Ed Conway@EdConwaySky
🚨Clearly there's loads of news today so there's a chance this gets ignored but... it is a BIG deal. Britain, the country that invented free trade as we know it, is raising steel tariffs to 50%. Biggest tariffs since Brexit. A massively symbolic moment. news.sky.com/story/watershe…
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Sensible stops being sensible when it drives people to extremes.
Luke Tryl@LukeTryl
Still think too much of response to Polanski and Farage relies on “well populists can say that/fantasy economics” without properly engaging with the fact that in both distinct and similar ways both of them have narratives about giving people agency/hope things can be better
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We all know the local election results are going to be bad. But could we at least pretend to have looked at how and why they cash out before trotting out our long preferred solution?
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But Labour has backed workers with the minimum wage increases and the workers rights bill.
The goals posts are being moved because people smell weakness and want to exploit it to push for a maximalist ideological agenda.
Steven Swinford@Steven_Swinford
Breaking: Labour will be 'pretty much decimated' in the local elections and there will 'be a move to change leader', the head of the Unite union has said Sharon Graham tells @SophyRidgeSky that Labour hasn't backed workers and has been 'dragged kicking and screaming' into doing the things a Labour government should do 'Irrespective of what I believe, I think after the May elections there will be a move to change leader because I think Labour are going to pretty much be decimated in those elections 'I don't think that they understand themselves how bad that will be - what anger is out there about the fact that they haven't backed workers, the fact they have to be dragged kicking and screaming into doing things that, quite frankly, we would expect a Labour government to do, for example, have a wealth tax. 'It's not radical. I mean, it's pretty obvious that that's the sort of thing that we need to be looking at when the gap between the rich and the poor is as wide as it is' She says that Rayner has to 'do the right thing by the Birmingham bin workers'
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To build national resilience, energy security and economic growth, we need nuclear.
We’re overhauling the system - cutting duplicative, overly complex rules holding back ambition.
In an uncertain world, this government’s economic plan is the right one. gov.uk/government/new…
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Trump saved Putin. This war is a geopolitical catastrophe for Europe. It took some people more than a week to see it, and others are still trying very hard not to look.
Ed Conway@EdConwaySky
Another brilliant chart by @robin_j_brooks, this time illustrating the extraordinary windfall Russia is likely to enjoy as a result of the Iran-related rise in the oil price. THIS will be a big part of the geopolitical story in the coming months👇
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This is a Nietzschean idea (perhaps *the* Nietzschean idea "man is a process of overcoming") and it's interesting the Nietzsche, the 'cynic', thought the end of history was a real possibility (/danger) while Fukuyama, the 'idealist' seems to diagnosed it as actually impossible.
Matthew Dalby@MatthewJDalby
Maybe Fukuyama was right.
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God Emperor Starmer, may he rule for 3.5k years just as Leto II Atreides did.
Conservatives@Conservatives
The "wildlife" Keir Starmer wants to replace Churchill with.
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Good Morning from Germany, where spot gas prices have surged to above €60 per megawatt hour. That makes natural gas roughly 6 times more expensive here than in the US.
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No one bought into the post-Cold War promise of globalisation and peace more than Britain. It was a high-reward strategy, bearing high risks if and when the music stopped. Now we must adapt more quickly than our peers. It won't be cheap, but the costs of inaction are greater.
Deborah Haynes@haynesdeborah
With calls growing for @Keir_Starmer to accelerate plans to rebuild the UK’s armed forces, we tracked our military shrinkage from 1983 (a year after UK forces seized back the Falklands from Argentina) to now. Personnel numbers are down by almost two thirds news.sky.com/story/uk-must-…
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Useful reminder from Chris Curtis MP that Labour's victory was by, and for, the economically insecure.
Things are still tough for them and in the fallout of the Iran crisis they will likely get worse. How we support them will define the government.
chriscurtismk.substack.com/p/who-actually…
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I'm sorry but this is terrible.
War is not a game. It does not come with a rock soundtrack.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 WATCH: Keir Starmer posts an Iran edit on TikTok
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It is really hard to overstate how little they care about European security.
Javier Blas@JavierBlas
BREAKING: US Treasury eases oil sanctions on the Kremlin, allowing Indian refineries to buy the millions of barrels of Russian crude on floating storage until early April (the new rules cover all the oil already loaded in a tanker by March 5, 2026). Massive win for Putin.
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"The trauma of the Soviet Union is repeating, but in a more cynical way"
Pussy Riot's Maria Alyokhina joins us on The Exchange.
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I’m completely thrilled to have been elected as your Young Labour chair. 🌹
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I wrote about this (in an uglier & more Labour centric way) last year.
The Green threat (as we saw in G&D) is real but concentrated and faces our most entrenched MPs.
Reform have a smaller hill to climb & more viable targets.
Last years magazines here: progressonline.substack.com
PollCheck@poll_checker
Looking at Greens vs Reform vote spread - they often aren't competing for the same constituencies In seats where Reform wins, Greens are often third, and vice versa This actually benefits Reform, on 23% in the YouGov poll, they still get 250 seats because Labour and Conservatives are so low. This is extremely efficient given FPTP These are also unprecedented numbers though - 5 parties within a few percent of each other. Hundreds of seats will be marginal
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If I was Mel Stride I simply would not compare Britain to a clapped out old house. It invites the question of who the previous tenant was.
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My economic plan is the right one for Britain.
📉 Inflation falling faster than expected
💷 Borrowing forecast to be the lowest in 6 years
📈 Families £1,000+ a year better off after inflation
Building a strong and secure economy and making working people better off.
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Fast positives from the Spring Statement:
- Focus, & positive news, on GDP/Capita,
- Borrowing down,
- Emphasis on economic geography &security.
Missing:
- How to build on pride in place to do regional rebalancing,
- Plan for productivity,
- Plan for exploding energy prices.
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