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Labour must not deliver ‘politics as usual’ over Brexit
If Labour joins the Tories in bungling Brexit and delivers anything other than what the people voted for, it will destroy its core support and boost the far right, argues TONY CONWAY
ROGER McKENZIE explains how Ibrahim Traore has sparked the flames of hope across Africa, while the Western powers seek to extinguish all attempts to build true sovereignty in the long-exploited continent
DANIEL GOVER considers the procedural complexities awaiting a Private Member’s Bill in its passage through Commons and Lords
JAMIE TUCKNUTT reports on an initiative that brings together two epochs of the city’s anti-fascist struggles
Just as German Social Democrats joined the Nazis in singing Deutschland Uber Alles, ANDREW MURRAY observes how Starmer tries to out-Farage Farage with anti-migrant policies — but evidence shows Reform voters come from Tories, not Labour, making this ploy morally bankrupt and politically pointless
KEITH FLETT traces how the ‘world’s most successful political party’ has imploded since Thatcher’s fall, from nine leaders in 30 years to losing all 16 English councils, with Reform UK symbolically capturing Peel’s birthplace, Tamworth — but the beast is not dead yet
With turnout plummeting and faith in Parliament collapsing, BERT SCHOUWENBURG explains how radical local government reform — including devolved taxation and removal of party politics from town halls — could restore power to communities currently ignored by profit-obsessed MPs
AT THE time of writing, the government via the inept Theresa May was still attempting to renegotiate its deal with the EU. At the same time this dysfunctional government was failing in its objectives of delivering trade deals. Indeed a far-reaching deal with China has been put at risk by the infantile bellicose statements harking back to imperialist gunboat diplomacy emanating from the Ministry of Defence.
Most recently Defra discovered that the country hadn’t got enough of the right sort of pallets to export and move foodstuffs. And there is “failing Grayling” who has gifted Eurotunnel £33 million following the award of a shipping contract to a ferry company that had no ships.
As a former PCS negotiator I am only too aware that this government and those senior civil servants that support it are, by and large, inept. It is evident that government failed to listen to those trade unions that stated that austerity had to stop and be reversed if there were to be enough skilled staff to do the necessary negotiations with the EU and other nations.
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TONY CONWAY assesses the lessons of the 1930s and looks at what is similar, and what is different, about the rise of the far right today
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