Rebecca Roe

[Rebecca Roe @Beci_Roe]

@elonmusk There should always be some final checks and balances on orders issued by a leader. If there wasn't then we have a dictatorship. Surely democracy means accountability and safeguards are required

[Rebecca Roe @Beci_Roe]

The PM was good in his initial meeting with Trump, can't wait for the next scene, hoping it goes a little like this 🤣
Love Actually - Prime Minister's speech https://t.co/HZGHnjpxAU via @YouTube

[Rebecca Roe @Beci_Roe]

@Drfc88 @bbceastenders You sound a little blood thirsty 😆😆

[Rebecca Roe @Beci_Roe]

@bbceastenders This week EastEnders has truly excelled itself with storylines and acting. Amazing, my husband normally goes to another room when I have EastEnders on but this week has been completely hooked and said tonight was fantastic acting, well done to all involved

[Rebecca Roe @Beci_Roe]

@Doug1949Douglas @bbceastenders 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Rebecca Roe @Beci_Roe]

@bbceastenders Furious that you had Martin die just as him and Stacey had finally reconciled, heartbreaking

[Rachel Reeves @RachelReevesMP]

Today is the first time in our country’s history that a Budget will be delivered by a woman.

For every young girl watching, let this be a sign that there should be no ceiling on your ambitions.

https://t.co/lKNXMwJTxk

[Rebecca Roe @Beci_Roe]

@stmarysderby do you have details of a local after school club that can collect a reception age child from your school? Thanks

[Rebecca Roe @Beci_Roe]

@donsue45

[Rebecca Roe @Beci_Roe]

@whodreamsofcats @ArgyleLoz 🤦🏼‍♀️

[Rebecca Roe @Beci_Roe]

@Mike_Fabricant @GBNEWS Only so sane people can start the day with a laugh and a smile at all the crazy nonsense spouted out of this “news” channel

[Rebecca Roe @Beci_Roe]

@RUOKPage Sorry to burst your conspiracy bubbles but in the UK you can request a ‘walking’ epidural. I’m no fan of the H&M saga but this is actually possible, it’s milder than a full epidural and can be tailored for pain relief, I considered it as an option for my labour plan. Look it up!

[Rebecca Roe @Beci_Roe]

@adrianfclarke @TerribleMaps Yes, however there is a nice big Waitrose in Kenilworth which is only a 10-15 minute drive away

[Rebecca Roe @Beci_Roe]

@Davidmcgurk9 @OwenJones84 However, the length of tenancy was factored in to calculate the discount on the council house which the mortgage was against….your rent was essentially taken as your deposit

[Rebecca Roe @Beci_Roe]

@OwenJones84 Not often I agree with you on anything but all your points are very strong and valid in this case

[Rebecca Roe @Beci_Roe]

@SenoritaRisitas @LHF14643190 @SussexHenryVIII You literally do not understand British royal protocol do you 😆

[Rebecca Roe @Beci_Roe]

@SoVeryBritish Seething

[Rebecca Roe @Beci_Roe]

@jessicarose088 @InternetH0F Yep, did this when I was 13 trying to answer a question in my geography lesson, the class erupted, I can still remember my usually very stern geography teacher laughing hard while I was asking everyone what did I say that’s so funny 🤦🏼‍♀️

[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.

[Rebecca Roe @Beci_Roe]

@PicturesFoIder Tory MP