Captain Corelli's Pangolin

stop eating pangolins

[Captain Corelli's Pangolin @Pango987]

@AppalledHamster Same as that, but I still want their empire to die. It’s for their benefit and ours.

[Captain Corelli's Pangolin @Pango987]

@AppalledHamster They haven’t though. They’ll engage in this rage bait and play the hatchling without a moment’s thought.

[Captain Corelli's Pangolin @Pango987]

@realhansard @AppalledHamster It’s the letter agencies. There’s more to say on it, but that’s the underlying why.

[Captain Corelli's Pangolin @Pango987]

@AppalledHamster The list of things that need to be included in an act of oblivion is as long as a Dead Sea scroll.

[Captain Corelli's Pangolin @Pango987]

Don’t do it, Keir. Rage against the dying of the light!

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer has promised to "keep my mouth shut" under Andy Burnham's premiership

[Captain Corelli's Pangolin @Pango987]

@AppalledHamster The bench is the worst institution in the British state, and that is with the stiffest competition imaginable.

[Collingwood 🇬🇧 @admcollingwood]

When Morgan McSweeney says that "Labour failed to prepare for power", he doesn't actually mean that. In fact, Labour had a detailed legislative agenda and long-considered plan of action. What he actually means is that, "We didn't believe the Tories when they said that the state didn't work and that getting the Civil Service to actually do anything was next to impossible: we thought it was just Tory-Boris-Cummings incompetence and bad ideas and Brexit. But, when we actually attained power and went to grab the levers of power, we found our hands sinking into mush. We should have believed them and prepared to reform the state itself; to fix the system of systems."

As my friend @Pango987 says: "Much of British governance would be better served by taking your opponents claims more seriously."

[Captain Corelli's Pangolin @Pango987]

@fartelengelbert That’s limited enough to work, but laser focus is required.

I put no faith in the institutional right, for the record. Large showings of presence with a singular aim, however?

[Captain Corelli's Pangolin @Pango987]

@fartelengelbert It would certainly be something, but I don’t think demonstrations matter unless it is to evidence strength, and with a defined goal.

The British right hasn’t a fraction of the institutional backing or organisation that the clients do, which is by design.

[Captain Corelli's Pangolin @Pango987]

@arisroussinos Agreed. I have mixed views on the whole enterprise, coloured by my decade in the ROI.

I don’t know what ideal was meant to be, but I haven’t found it either side of the border.

My family are nationalists, but, I don’t buy the dream, nor do I like the casual sectarianism in it.

[Captain Corelli's Pangolin @Pango987]

@arisroussinos But I suppose the rejoinder would, correctly, be that neither side wanted to live together. Ulster as the last gasp of Protestant ascendancy was as inevitable as it was doomed.

[Captain Corelli's Pangolin @Pango987]

@arisroussinos I agree on the architecture. My point is that the cause of unionism was hamstrung by a proto devolved government that should never have existed.

A lot of horror could have been spared if ‘out of sight, out of mind’ had not been applied to Ulster.

[William Clouston SDP @WilliamClouston]

Devolution is Scotland and Wales has failed. The concept was decisively rejected in the North East Assembly referendum in 2004. The Mayoral record is patchy in the regions and over-politicised in London.

Fixing the central state is the priority…

[Captain Corelli's Pangolin @Pango987]

@fartelengelbert People are passive because they won’t organize, and it behooves the state to exacerbate that. As to the loyalists? It’s a day ending in Y, so the chances of them being livid are 100%.

[Captain Corelli's Pangolin @Pango987]

@AppalledHamster

[Captain Corelli's Pangolin @Pango987]

@AppalledHamster Common* ffs autocorrect.

[Captain Corelli's Pangolin @Pango987]

@AppalledHamster To repeat my comment refrain:

‘The cycle cannot be cheated, and the bill comes at the end.’