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Apr 27, 2023Liked by Adam Bienkov

Yes absolutely right I’m afraid. Especially regarding freedom of movement. So disappointing.

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Some say he is being "ambiguous". Simply saying that other things are more a priority. Of course, many people have been here before. Pro-Europeans were desperate for Corbyn to come off the fence and have a Brexit policy. Then Starmer arrived with support for freedom of movement. Two years of silence, maddening and frustrating that the lies were not called out, then the decision to "make Brexit work".

This was explained by the red wall wanting Brexit and those voters being far more important than me or anyone else. This almost makes the case for PR. A few thousand voters in a small number of constituencies dictating the position of a government.

The problem for Starmer is that even if he achieves everything, if those few thousand voters change again, the Conservatives will be back with a huge majority.

In the 10 years from the London Olympics of 2012 to Brexit Britain we went from cool Britannia to cruel Britannia. A Starmer government that doesn't want PR will lead to the reversing of anything he does.

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I simply do not understand what labour now stands for. Beginning to look far from progressive. Peter Mandelson May be a reason. I learn he has met Derispaka a sanctioned Russian. Surely not more Russian money to buy Labour?

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