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It’s the stupid economy
Following the recent success of a range of economic seminars, DOUG NICHOLLS, general secretary of the GFTU, argues we have to get a popular and rigorous alternative economic strategy embedded throughout the movement

WHEN there is a kerfuffle about a prime minister the Westminster bubble and the trivial media inflate themselves in momentary euphoria, while almost universally misreading the messages.

Actually the Tory Party doesn’t do personality or identity politics. That’s one of the reasons it is the most successful right-wing party in the world — it clings on through thick and thin because it makes a virtue out of pragmatism and abandons every principle except the defence of capital.

They won the last election because they had the bottle to reflect the democratic will of the people in the referendum. Get Brexit Done was a representative, popular and necessary slogan.

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