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[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

According to the IMF rising corporate profits were the largest contributor to Europe’s inflation over the past two years as companies increased prices by more than the spiking costs of imported energy - so just when Sunak should be targeting corporate greed his shameless government wants us to believe giving nurses & teachers a slightly higher than usual crappy real terms pay cut would embed high inflation!

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

Here's how the future is going to play out.

(Long - please expand the tweet.)

1. The Tories will wreck everything at an ever increasing pace as the GE approaches, like irresponsible teenagers who know they're not going to be the ones cleaning up the morning after their wild drunken binge.

2. Labour will win the GE on a desperate tide of people wanting to Get the Tories Out, but (and this will be VERY important later) their future freedom to manoevre will be hampered by the bright red lines they laid down on things like Brexit.

3. Labour will start trying to fix some of the stuff the Tories broke. It will prove very expensive. Mending is always more expensive than breaking.

4. Labour will try to Make Brexit Work. The RW tabloids will tear even bigger strips off them than usual.

5. Make Brexit Work won't. Work, that is. Trying to make Brexit work is like trying to get the toothpaste back in the tube after you've brushed your teeth with it.

6. Meanwhile, Labour are having to spend more more more just to keep stuff from literally falling apart (think sewers, water pipes, collapsing schools, crumbling hospitals etc.)

7. Tories watch from the sidelines, laughing and jeering. "Typical Labour. Always spending money they don't have."

8. If they're VERY lucky, Labour will go into the GE-after-next with the overall situation in Britain slightly better than it was when they took office. The country will only be knee-deep in metaphoric and real sewage, rather than thigh deep.

9. The Tories and the RW media will tag team to blame everything that's (still) broken in Britain on Labour. "Same old Labour. Can't be trusted with the economy. Can't be trusted with anything. Can't even fix Brexit, despite their lofty promises."

(Important intermission: Labour will never get fair coverage in our British media. But this is a "known known". They need to figure out how to win, repeatedly, anyway.)

10. GE2: Electric Boogaloo. Labour are stuck. The taunts about having failed their flagship Brexit fixing policy hit home, because they're true. That lubricates the way for all the lies the Tories and RW media are spinning about their wider performance to slip down like honey.

IF Labour pivot towards SM/CU/Rejoin, they might as well tattoo "we wasted 5 years because we didn't have a clue about what we were doing when it comes to Brexit" across their collective foreheads. They may pivot anyway, because the alternative is even worse. This is where those bright red lines (remember them?) will bite them in the fundament so hard they won't be able to sit down for the next six months. Because the press can absolutely legitimately scream "U-turn! Come and see the U-turn so big, it's visible from the Moon." And it will be true.

(Absolutely critical point: there is no "Get the Tories Out" vote. "Ooh, the scary Tories will get back in if you don't vote for us" doesn't have anything like the same impact, especially with non-core Labour voters who lent their votes last time but who are absolutely livid about Labour's failing approach to the Brexit they detest.)

11. Labour lose GE2. A one-term wonder, and they're done. The Tories do what they do best: keep blaming everything on Labour, while picking their looting back up where they left off last time.

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Scroll back up through the scenario above, and look at how Brexit runs through it like a vein pumping pure poison.

That is why Labour need to change their fundamental approach to Brexit, and they need to do so now.

Stop ruling anything out (not saying you won't do something isn't the same as proactively saying you will). Think along the lines of "Labour will do whatever it takes to mitigate the damage Brexit is causing". Make the change far enough ahead of the GE that the fuss about the U-turn is reduced to the constant every-day moaning and carping of the RW press by the time the GE comes around.

Also, Labour need to reconsider PR. It's the only hope they (and we) have of anything approaching long-term stability.

Many of the problems Britain faces will take 2, 3, 4+ election cycles to fix. And they need to be fixed. But the only conceivable way of getting the time necessary to do so is to form long-term partnerships via PR.

That way, you get rid of the short-termism that has dominated British politics to the ruin of us all. (In the current 5-year political cycle, the first year is spent learning the ropes and the last gearing up for the GE, so there are really only 3 even vaguely "productive" years to be wrung out of incumbency.)

Phew, and we're done. You may disagree. You probably will disagree. But please take a very deep breath and a big step back, and think about whether your disagreement comes because it feels genuinely too horrible to contemplate the real world in the stark terms I painted above, and whether your support for a particular political party is blinding you to the reality of what they can achieve in a short 5-year (really 3) period in office.

[AntonineTherapy @antoninetherapy]

As a news headline - this is dreadfully written!

Did he grope the woman ‘in the strongest possible terms’ or has he denied allegations “in the strongest possible terms ? 🤨

[Sky News @SkyNews]

A man running to be the Conservative candidate for London mayor has denied allegations that he groped a woman "in the strongest possible terms". https://t.co/bcB6BXYFRs

[LBC @LBC]

'I am calling her rhetoric racist, I am.'

Tory peer Baroness ＠SayeedaWarsi condemns Suella Braverman's language and tells ＠mrjamesob we need a grown-up as Home Secretary, not a 'Trump tribute act'.

[sue#NHSLove💙💙💙#FBNHS suesuezep.bsky.social @SueSuezep]

I do not want a King and castles
I want Doctors and Nurses in Hospitals
I don't want pomp and circumstance and ostentatious displays of superiority by the few
I want social care and fully funded public services for everyone
What has happened to us...

[Ben Myers @_BenMyers_]

My 94-year-old grandmother has kept a list of every book she ever read since she was 14 years old. Amazing archive of one person’s mind over nearly a century

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

This should be on every news show - it’s no coincidence at the very moment workers say enough is enough Sunak plans to rob millions of them of their democratic right to strike, force them to work against their will & allow them to be sacked if they refuse

[AntonineTherapy @antoninetherapy]

@PaulYoungParlez @awaywithmedia Ordered! Cheers - happy memories of student days going to see you in Tiffany’s in Glasgow. Fan ever since 😎⭐️

[AntonineTherapy @antoninetherapy]

@stefanosmith15 Congratulations @stefanosmith15 😎

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Your reminder…

Sunak left 3m people to face insane stress & suffering when he locked them out of furlough support

Their incomes stopped

They spiralled into debt

They begged him for help

He ignored them

1.5k of them ended up with depression

25 of them took their lives.

[AntonineTherapy @antoninetherapy]

😡😡😡😡

[Adam Bienkov @AdamBienkov]

Asked by the SNP about the cost of his energy plans, Jacob Rees-Mogg replies by paraphrasing P.G Wodehouse, saying it "is not too difficult to discern the difference between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine," before dismissing the party's "general grumpiness".

[Ramesh Patel - They Would Rather You Ignore This @Imalright_Jack]

OUTSTANDING SPEECH

Mhairi Black delivered the most honest critique about this Tory government, in the last 12 years

She covers everything.

It will leave you speechless

This will definitely go down in history.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Wow. This is absolutely superb from @Ed_Miliband

[judy murray @JudyMurray]

Love this ❤️. @DavisCup 🇬🇧

[AntonineTherapy @antoninetherapy]

@JudyMurray @edfringe It was a great show! Really enjoyed it - especially when you cracked 🤣🤣🤣

[AntonineTherapy @antoninetherapy]

Wow! Awesome self care! 😮

[⚧︎Coochie Seasoning⚧︎🐝🔥🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @bbychakra]

Corallus caninus realigning jaw

[David Barnett @davidmbarnett]

Can someone explain to me in simple terms why the government cannot turn to the energy companies and say, “Actually, no, you’re not raising fucking prices by this much. Let your shareholders take the hit until things level out?”

[AntonineTherapy @antoninetherapy]

Saw this and thought of you @JaneyGodley 😉 would love to hear your special take on this scenario 🥰

[AntonineTherapy @antoninetherapy]

@SamBennett56 Come up to the Black Loch with me any time 😎