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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 14h

Freedom.

Freedom from war
Freedom from constraints
Freedom to dream

Freedom

Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, it clearly is enlightened self-interest. “Zero sum” is the mindset the exploiters propagate because it’s easy to understand and suits their divisiveness. The problem with “pro-European” is the zero summers can then contrast that with “pro-UK”.

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 2d

Selling EU membership as generosity won’t work. I doubt the majority of EU citizens support EU membership because they see European unity as a good in and of itself. I think your analysis of it not being a “zero sum” game is nearer the point. The EU is about enlightened self-interest.

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 3d

Dig down. Keep broadcasting the links to the Russian regime. Keep questioning how someone with such admiration of and ties to both Russia and the Trump administration and who spends so much time cultivating those links can be loyal to his constituents let alone his nation.

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 6d

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

(You’ll notice that the rows in the Menin Gate are quite well integrated.)

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Michael Emonds @michaelje67.bsky.social · 9d

Well said, Gary Neville! 👏

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 7d

If you first accept that even in that system all the candidates would be preselected by small, unrepresentative groups of party members, maybe. Alternatively, you’re just setting up a more equal bun fight.

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 7d

Just a slight shame that they had to rip the UK apart in order to do it.

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 8d

That Brexit referendum to end the Tory melodrama is going so well, isn’t it?

Bet Cameron is pleased with himself.

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 8d

Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride's big speech.

#ToryPartyDeath

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 7d

He leads the country like a barrister striving not to offend a judge whose opinion he cannot quite fathom.

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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 9d

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 8d

I think someone already had a go. In any event, it’s illogical to believe that going it alone in splendid isolation is more beneficial than cooperation which has been painstakingly agreed over decades (unless the advantage is sating xenophobia): bsky.app/profile/pome...

Pome Pete @pomepete.bsky.social · 10d

Neither was this gully-foyle-debunked.co.uk/1-10

Debunking Gully Foyle's EU Benefits Claims Effectively | Gully Foyle Debunked

Join us as we debunk Gully Foyle's claims about Brexit benefits. Our counter book, 'Gully Foyle Debunked', aims to challenge misinformation and support the National Rejoin March with all profits. Proj...

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Pome Pete @pomepete.bsky.social · 10d

Neither was this gully-foyle-debunked.co.uk/1-10

Debunking Gully Foyle's EU Benefits Claims Effectively | Gully Foyle Debunked

Join us as we debunk Gully Foyle's claims about Brexit benefits. Our counter book, 'Gully Foyle Debunked', aims to challenge misinformation and support the National Rejoin March with all profits. Proj...

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 8d

Now, imagine what this inexperienced and ignorant party would do in the speeding headlights of national government:

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 9d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 11d

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social re Any Questions and our political system, 24 skimmable pages on what’s wrong with what we have and, from p 13, a utopian alternative: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/edvlv...

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 12d

Isn’t that just a factor of how a party political, first past the post electoral system works?

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12d

Farage, Trump, Musk: your boy Javier Milei just took one hell of a beating. Why so quiet? | Aditya Chakrabortty

The wild politics and chainsaw made Argentina’s president an economic hero for the right. And now, with his nation’s finances in chaos: silence, writes Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

www.theguardian.com

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 13d

🤔

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 13d

On what grounds do either of you think the ECHR has any jurisdiction here?

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 14d

No.

Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 14d

24 June 2016. David Cameron :
“The British people have voted to leave the European Union and their will must be respected.”

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 14d

No. If you ask for advice, you don’t need to take it. Parliament is sovereign, unless it binds itself with a mandatory referendum (which this wasn’t). And the argument in court for the referendum not being void for irregularities was that Parliament had the power to ignore the result.

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 14d

You’re relying on a pronouncement of David Davis rather than logic or law.
So:
There was an advisory referendum.
D Cameron said it would “be respected”.
T May tried to leave.
The SC in Miller said Parliament had to decide that.
So, effectively, the EU NoW Act was Parliament’s decision.

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 14d

Parliament, by the EU NoW Act.

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