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Claire Jones

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Politics writer for West England Bylines and co-ordinator for the democracy campaign group, Compass Oxfordshire. Topics: democracy, electoral reform, far right ideologies, disinformation, Labour, etc. https://westenglandbylines.co.uk/author/clairejones/

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Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 1d

Claire Jones on authoritarianism. Article in link:

"Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism & won’t stand or fall with Trump. It's also naive to think Reform's survival depends on Farage, given its place in the global authoritarian ecosystem".
westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/eme...

Emergency alert: Trump, Farage and the authoritarian web

It would be a mistake to assume democracy is our default state, or to underestimate the gladiatorial power of its modern enemies Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism and won’t stand or...

westenglandbylines.co.uk

Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 1d

Claire Jones on authoritarianism. Article in link:

"Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism & won’t stand or fall with Trump. It's also naive to think Reform's survival depends on Farage, given its place in the global authoritarian ecosystem".
westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/eme...

Emergency alert: Trump, Farage and the authoritarian web

It would be a mistake to assume democracy is our default state, or to underestimate the gladiatorial power of its modern enemies Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism and won’t stand or...

westenglandbylines.co.uk

Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 1d

Claire Jones on authoritarianism. Article in link:

"Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism & won’t stand or fall with Trump. It's also naive to think Reform's survival depends on Farage, given its place in the global authoritarian ecosystem".
westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/eme...

Emergency alert: Trump, Farage and the authoritarian web

It would be a mistake to assume democracy is our default state, or to underestimate the gladiatorial power of its modern enemies Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism and won’t stand or...

westenglandbylines.co.uk

Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 1d

Claire Jones on authoritarianism. Article in link:

"Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism & won’t stand or fall with Trump. It's also naive to think Reform's survival depends on Farage, given its place in the global authoritarian ecosystem".
westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/eme...

Emergency alert: Trump, Farage and the authoritarian web

It would be a mistake to assume democracy is our default state, or to underestimate the gladiatorial power of its modern enemies Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism and won’t stand or...

westenglandbylines.co.uk

Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 1d

Claire Jones on authoritarianism. Article in link:

"Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism & won’t stand or fall with Trump. It's also naive to think Reform's survival depends on Farage, given its place in the global authoritarian ecosystem".
westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/eme...

Emergency alert: Trump, Farage and the authoritarian web

It would be a mistake to assume democracy is our default state, or to underestimate the gladiatorial power of its modern enemies Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism and won’t stand or...

westenglandbylines.co.uk

Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 1d

Claire Jones on authoritarianism. Article in link:

"Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism & won’t stand or fall with Trump. It's also naive to think Reform's survival depends on Farage, given its place in the global authoritarian ecosystem".
westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/eme...

Emergency alert: Trump, Farage and the authoritarian web

It would be a mistake to assume democracy is our default state, or to underestimate the gladiatorial power of its modern enemies Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism and won’t stand or...

westenglandbylines.co.uk

Reposted by Claire Jones

Red and green-ish @redandgreenish.bsky.social · 5d

I wish we'd stop referring to men such as Trump, Farage and Stephen Yaxley-Lennon as strong men. They're bullies, and all bullies are cowards. There's nothing remotely strong about these men, except their need to control.

Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 1d

Claire Jones on authoritarianism. Article in link:

"Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism & won’t stand or fall with Trump. It's also naive to think Reform's survival depends on Farage, given its place in the global authoritarian ecosystem".
westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/eme...

Emergency alert: Trump, Farage and the authoritarian web

It would be a mistake to assume democracy is our default state, or to underestimate the gladiatorial power of its modern enemies Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism and won’t stand or...

westenglandbylines.co.uk

Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 1d

Claire Jones on authoritarianism. Article in link:

"Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism & won’t stand or fall with Trump. It's also naive to think Reform's survival depends on Farage, given its place in the global authoritarian ecosystem".
westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/eme...

Emergency alert: Trump, Farage and the authoritarian web

It would be a mistake to assume democracy is our default state, or to underestimate the gladiatorial power of its modern enemies Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism and won’t stand or...

westenglandbylines.co.uk

Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 1d

Claire Jones on authoritarianism. Article in link:

"Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism & won’t stand or fall with Trump. It's also naive to think Reform's survival depends on Farage, given its place in the global authoritarian ecosystem".
westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/eme...

Emergency alert: Trump, Farage and the authoritarian web

It would be a mistake to assume democracy is our default state, or to underestimate the gladiatorial power of its modern enemies Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism and won’t stand or...

westenglandbylines.co.uk

Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 1d

Claire Jones on authoritarianism. Article in link:

"Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism & won’t stand or fall with Trump. It's also naive to think Reform's survival depends on Farage, given its place in the global authoritarian ecosystem".
westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/eme...

Emergency alert: Trump, Farage and the authoritarian web

It would be a mistake to assume democracy is our default state, or to underestimate the gladiatorial power of its modern enemies Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism and won’t stand or...

westenglandbylines.co.uk

Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 1d

Claire Jones on authoritarianism. Article in link:

"Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism & won’t stand or fall with Trump. It's also naive to think Reform's survival depends on Farage, given its place in the global authoritarian ecosystem".
westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/eme...

Emergency alert: Trump, Farage and the authoritarian web

It would be a mistake to assume democracy is our default state, or to underestimate the gladiatorial power of its modern enemies Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism and won’t stand or...

westenglandbylines.co.uk

Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 1d

Claire Jones on authoritarianism. Article in link:

"Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism & won’t stand or fall with Trump. It's also naive to think Reform's survival depends on Farage, given its place in the global authoritarian ecosystem".
westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/eme...

Emergency alert: Trump, Farage and the authoritarian web

It would be a mistake to assume democracy is our default state, or to underestimate the gladiatorial power of its modern enemies Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism and won’t stand or...

westenglandbylines.co.uk

Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 1d

Claire Jones on authoritarianism. Article in link:

"Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism & won’t stand or fall with Trump. It's also naive to think Reform's survival depends on Farage, given its place in the global authoritarian ecosystem".
westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/eme...

Emergency alert: Trump, Farage and the authoritarian web

It would be a mistake to assume democracy is our default state, or to underestimate the gladiatorial power of its modern enemies Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism and won’t stand or...

westenglandbylines.co.uk

Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 1d

Claire Jones on authoritarianism. Article in link:

"Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism & won’t stand or fall with Trump. It's also naive to think Reform's survival depends on Farage, given its place in the global authoritarian ecosystem".
westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/eme...

Emergency alert: Trump, Farage and the authoritarian web

It would be a mistake to assume democracy is our default state, or to underestimate the gladiatorial power of its modern enemies Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism and won’t stand or...

westenglandbylines.co.uk

Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 1d

Dunt spot on

Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

The only descriptions of Jenrick and the Tory party you’ll ever need….
What a dismal way for a party to die.

Jenrick is a far more pernicious figure than Nigel Farage. For a start, Farage does not go as far as Jenrick. He remembers - from the old days, when fascism was frowned on rather than celebrated - how dangerous explicit talk of race is. More importantly, Farage is seen by the public as someone operating on the edge of the political spectrum. But Jenrick has none of these restraints. He is perfectly happy racialising our discourse. And he operates in the mainstream right, contaminating British society from the height of the orthodoxy.

This is the underlying issue, the substrata underneath Badenoch and Jenrick. It's not
just that they are pathetic and empty and cowardly and immoral and petty and useless and inept. It's actually somehow worse than that. It is that the entire British conservative project is dying. It is hollow. It has no ideas and those it does have are undermined by the very policies it puts forward. It has no principles and those it retains are made into a mockery by the statements it allows to go unchallenged. It has nothing to offer, but a haunted terror at the sight of Farage and an unrequited love-song at the sight of Trump.

Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 1d

Claire Jones on authoritarianism. Article in link:

"Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism & won’t stand or fall with Trump. It's also naive to think Reform's survival depends on Farage, given its place in the global authoritarian ecosystem".
westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/eme...

Emergency alert: Trump, Farage and the authoritarian web

It would be a mistake to assume democracy is our default state, or to underestimate the gladiatorial power of its modern enemies Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism and won’t stand or...

westenglandbylines.co.uk

Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 1d

Claire Jones on authoritarianism. Article in link:

"Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism & won’t stand or fall with Trump. It's also naive to think Reform's survival depends on Farage, given its place in the global authoritarian ecosystem".
westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/eme...

Emergency alert: Trump, Farage and the authoritarian web

It would be a mistake to assume democracy is our default state, or to underestimate the gladiatorial power of its modern enemies Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism and won’t stand or...

westenglandbylines.co.uk

Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 1d

Claire Jones on authoritarianism. Article in link:

"Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism & won’t stand or fall with Trump. It's also naive to think Reform's survival depends on Farage, given its place in the global authoritarian ecosystem".
westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/eme...

Emergency alert: Trump, Farage and the authoritarian web

It would be a mistake to assume democracy is our default state, or to underestimate the gladiatorial power of its modern enemies Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism and won’t stand or...

westenglandbylines.co.uk

Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 1d

Claire Jones on authoritarianism. Article in link:

"Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism & won’t stand or fall with Trump. It's also naive to think Reform's survival depends on Farage, given its place in the global authoritarian ecosystem".
westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/eme...

Emergency alert: Trump, Farage and the authoritarian web

It would be a mistake to assume democracy is our default state, or to underestimate the gladiatorial power of its modern enemies Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism and won’t stand or...

westenglandbylines.co.uk

Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 1d

Claire Jones on authoritarianism. Article in link:

"Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism & won’t stand or fall with Trump. It's also naive to think Reform's survival depends on Farage, given its place in the global authoritarian ecosystem".
westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/eme...

Emergency alert: Trump, Farage and the authoritarian web

It would be a mistake to assume democracy is our default state, or to underestimate the gladiatorial power of its modern enemies Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism and won’t stand or...

westenglandbylines.co.uk

Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 3d

But will you be able to? Rigged elections means the results are controlled by Trump.

Reposted by Claire Jones

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 3d

I continue to just respect the hell out of this guy

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 5d

Essential reading. The infrastructure for P25 is already being built in Millbank Tower, London -

"Americans were warned about Project 2025. The question now is whether the UK will pay attention this time around, or keep believing polite but forceful denials."

open.substack.com/pub/iratusur...

Project 2025: The UK Edition (Part 2)

A Cambridge academic, a YouTube influencer, and Reform UK’s old HQ - the ingredients for our own Project 2025 are already mixed.

open.substack.com

Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 5d

Claire Jones on authoritarianism. Article in link:

"Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism & won’t stand or fall with Trump. It's also naive to think Reform's survival depends on Farage, given its place in the global authoritarian ecosystem".
westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/eme...

Emergency alert: Trump, Farage and the authoritarian web

It would be a mistake to assume democracy is our default state, or to underestimate the gladiatorial power of its modern enemies Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism and won’t stand or...

westenglandbylines.co.uk