Jayson Winters 🇺🇦
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Musician (please listen using links below), CB1000R, rejoiner, progressive politics, UK, Spain, The Netherlands, dogs, sourdough, graphic designer, gin.
Joined April 2010
Voting reform and the far right: be careful what you wish for? Part 2 Without external guardrails, PR, like Trumpism, "becomes just a child with a handgun … lets make representative democracy fit for our times". https://t.co/blHQDZCymv
westenglandbylines.co.uk
The second of two articles proposing that, to resist the far right, our plans for UK proportional representation urgently need a re-think
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The parallels between Johnson/Cummings and Trump/Musk are obvious and Musk’s appointment will no doubt end acrimoniously.
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These petitions became pointless under the Tories but I’m open to trying again with the new government especially following Trump’s win. Petition: Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible
petition.parliament.uk
I believe joining the EU would boost the economy, increase global influence, improve collaboration and provide stability & freedom. I believe that Brexit hasn't brought any tangible benefit and there...
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Chris Philp appointed new shadow home secretary - unbelievable!
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@Haggis_UK Badenoch is so very very graceless. What’s to be gained from sneering at another woman’s achievement like this? Reeves has smashed a glass ceiling, just like she has. Maybe celebrate all of that rather than being so dismissively grim.
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The Tories know they can play on the NI increase and MSM is facilitating that. Why isn’t anyone comparing these proposed increases to increases in minimum wage? One increase is much more significant to the cost of business than other but only the NI increase is criticised.
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Where were all the Tories calling for the equitable support of small business owners as ‘working people’ when Rishi Sunak excluded directors from the furlough scheme during Covid? #ForgottenLtd
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Happy to see Moldova are not to be duped into a future outside the EU by Russian interference.
dw.com
Early preliminary results had indicted a majority "no," but a surge of ballots from abroad provided last-minute support for EU membership. The referendum came amid allegations of Russia-backed voter...
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Think you understand the case for PR? This article dispels some PR myths and sets out the main challenges. Part two will explore how advocates of electoral reform should present PR. @ClaireJones8464
westenglandbylines.co.uk
Everyone deserves a fair vote but might electoral reform lead us into the arms of the far right?
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Be a real pity if #FarageRiots was to trend above Reform on the day their conference begins wouldn't it. Really hope that doesn't happen. Be a real downer. Sad.
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This is best analysis I've read about the recent riots what the future holds. @ClaireJones8464 @WEBylines
https://t.co/DCtaLlUlyK
westenglandbylines.co.uk
The recent riots have been an ugly carnival of hatred with troubling causes. But they have also highlighted powers that should inspire hope
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I totally get the arguments (I think) against invoking comparisons with the darkest days of our history. But also this…
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Odd decision to discuss Olympic boxing gender eligibility on the @theJeremyVine show. Storm Huntley knew a little but it was fairly clear that Tice and Vine had only absorbed a few headlines. We owe it to all the people impacted to do better than that.
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It's not the not knowing the Spanish national anthem doesn't have lyrics that makes you the thickest person in the country, it's that your original instinct was to take to X complain with no regard for whether that might be the case.
So, ok, I didn’t know the Spanish national anthem doesn’t have lyrics. This means of course that according to Twitter I am the thickest person in the country and should hang my head in utter shame. Hey ho,
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On July 4, something remarkable happened in Oxfordshire - the 'blue' was fully drained from the county and it's political landscape turned on its head https://t.co/hg8fmfMcxh
westenglandbylines.co.uk
After victory as a result of tactical voting, new Oxfordshire MPs should waste no time in pressing for electoral reform.
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The public reaction to Starmer's majority is less negative than they felt about an impending Johnson majority in 2019 Starmer and Labour majority, 2024 Delighted/Pleased: 39% Don't mind: 18% Disappointed/Dismayed: 35% Johnson and Tory majority, 2019 Delighted/Pleased: 35% Don't
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Masterful summary.
Looking back on 14 years of the Tories is like looking back at the traumatising post-vindaloo shit you just did in the toilet.
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