Ash Sarkar
@AyoCaesar
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Author of 'Minority Rule'. Contributing Editor @novaramedia. Views my own. Literature bore. Muslim. THFC. Kebab aficionado. Luxury communism now!
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Joined June 2012
That sound you hear is the marketing machine cranking up! I wrote a book, and now that's your problem. The pitch? Everyone is black-pilled, the social contract is broken, but those responsible are richer and more powerful than ever. I'm explaining how they get away with it.
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Had a few small beers. Got peer pressured into buying an Eddie Guerrero t-shirt. Will I regret this purchase? Stay tuned to find out.
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Sometimes you encounter the version of yourself that other people have constructed in their heads, and it's... really something.
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It's true, my in-laws wouldn't give their blessing to the marriage until I embraced Keynesianism.
Funny thing is that Ash Sarkar's ambitions and her desire to get along with her [White] husband's relatives have made her a typical Non-White Progressive. Her 'literally Communist' days are long over.
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Why is it always this, instead of, say, actually using your enormous majority to govern the country well and in the interests of its people? Machiavelli, incidentally, says a ruler "should not defer securing the good will of the people until they are themselves in difficulty".
"If I could be a kind of Machiavellian adviser to Keir Starmer, whispering in his ear, I'd say restart the culture war" The Telegraph's Poppy Coburn gives her advice to Keir Starmer on how to "not lose as badly" at the next general election. #Newsnight
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We loved seeing @AyoCaesar on the BBC’s 'What’s the Monarchy For?', discussing the #Monarchy’s place in society & what #Republicanism could mean for the UK. If you’d like to learn more, check out our book 'What Is the Monarchy For?' here:
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What Is the Monarchy For?; Does the monarch benefit the UK, or cause more harm than good? Breaking longstanding myths, Clancy demystifies and evaluates the monarchy, showing why republicanism is...
Total 90s, on the telly? Catch me talking about the reasons to back republicanism with David Dimbleby, on the BBC's 'What Is The Monarchy For?'
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Tell me you have no taste without telling me you have no taste.
State of her footwear 🤣🤣🤣
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Total 90s, on the telly? Catch me talking about the reasons to back republicanism with David Dimbleby, on the BBC's 'What Is The Monarchy For?'
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I mean Labour's actual decisions in government don't reflect their manifesto so much that even BEFORE the election it was obvious to @AyoCaesar that their promises didn't stack up. Watching Darren Jones shaking his head as nostradamus predicts everything is very funny
‘Ask them to nail down exactly what it is that she’s done wrong.’ James O’Brien's summary of the Rachel Reeves ‘lying’ accusations in 37 seconds.
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What actually happened at the Your Party conference? We sent our best to find out.
It was predicted to be the final showdown: Zarah Sultana vs Jeremy Corbyn. But what emerged was a more nuanced drama: confusion, anger, but ultimately hope. Watch @Richardhwrites and @JMSBraverman's full report on https://t.co/nD09vRkF2U
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Not a single plane flying over Venezuela, a country of 30m people with world's largest oil reserves Its airspace has been closed by the US President sitting in White House 2,000 miles away International law is a chimera. World is run like the mafia and Washington is the Don
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*he’d have Engels’ FT subscription
If Marx were alive today, he'd have an FT subscription.
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(cont.) Basically - if, in order to make it onto the leadership committee, you're incentivised to reflect the preoccupations of a selectorate which isn't that reflective of the wider electoral coalition that you're trying to put together... that might not be so good.
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4. First Past The Post has meant that certain kinds of voters get treated as basically disposable, and that has been reflected in how the Westminster parties determine their priorities. But I'm yet to be convinced that a leadership model that completely excludes those who are
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(cont.) I wouldn't be surprised if the collective leadership model results in more MPs (i.e. Ayoub Khan and Shockat Adam) leaving YP at some point. This might result in a more politically coherent party, but again – trade-offs!
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(cont.) This interview with @ShockatAdam is interesting – he clearly doesn't intend to comply with the YP whip in all circumstances. And you can see the logic: he made it to parliament without a party, so why does he need to toe the party line? https://t.co/OBTOcPDnoa
In the wake of the Your Party membership voting for a collective leadership model, @richardhwrites asks MP for Leicester South and member of the Independent Alliance, @ShockatAdam if he would ban landlords in the event the democratic whip of Your Party asked him to.
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3. Are Your Party MPs really going to be subordinate to the executive committee, even if it conflicts with their own political calculus?
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(cont.) It's all well and good having a party spokesperson, but they don't have the same legitimacy as an MP/candidate to audiences. Collective leadership might mean being comfortable with not having Zack Polanski levels of visibility.
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2. It's a model which might better benefit a party which doesn't contest national elections, at least not for a good long while. Growing a party through community organising takes patient work, if that's the plan. If not, a camel has a better chance of getting through the eye
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1. Not that there's been a *lack* of factionalism so far, but the combination of a party being run by an executive committee and dual-party membership is an absolute recipe for it. There's a risk that the selection process for candidates effectively disappears into other
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