No, I Won't Shut Up About Brexit

People (read: Corbyn supporters) keep telling me there are more important issues than Brexit.

Brexit isn't just the biggest issue — it is the only issue. Everything else is impacted by it or determined by it.

NHS: will be decimated by Brexit

Social care: ditto

Workers rights: ditto

Enviro protections: ditto

Pensions: ditto

Wages: stagnated

Inflation: through the roof

Unemployment: ditto

Social housing: gone

Libraries: ditto

Education: only for the wealthy

Retirement: ditto

Brexit will TAKE money from the poorest in this country and GIVE it to the wealthiest. It will reduce our security, increase inequality, remove protections from those who most need them. It will turn us into a tax haven for the ultra wealthy with deregulated, unprotected industries.

So go ahead, tell me again how there are issues other than Brexit for Labour to focus on.

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Let's Work Together

Right, listen up! This is not about party mergers or coalitions. The aim here is to make June the end of May so we can avert Brexit, or at least hard Brexit.

The name of the game towards that aim is the prisoner's dilemma. It's game theory. More about it here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NdITTDl5coE

I want to be clear. I'm not suggesting party mergers or coalitions. Just the mathematically sensible application of game theory to defeat May and hard Brexit...

To make June the end of May, we figure out which progressive candidates have a chance & we choose not to oppose them. We support them.

No mergers.

No coalitions.

The target outcome is a minority government, which would need to compromise & play nice to achieve anything at all.

Are you going to tell me minority govts can't/won't work? I'm Canadian; we think they're pretty normal. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_governments_in_Canada

If any of the good MPs in bad parties are deselected, we stand aside. We support them as independents or make room for them in our parties.

And, naturally, we do everything we possibly can to make sure Prime Dictator May herself is unseated.

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