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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 18h

Gosh, the age of "Believe in Britain you fools! We are going to be better off because of Brexit" didn't last long, Richard...

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 19h

We must emulate the United Arab Emirates, apparently.

Where to even start...?

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 13h

auch

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14h

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 16h

That is unlikely with these polling figures...

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 17h

How is Badenoch's version distinguishable, apart from "l am going to announce a review before making an announcement"?

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 18h

It betrays a desperation to reassert stratified class, racial and gender hierarchies through something like UAE's authoritarian structures in the assumption that Conservative and Reform leaders or voters would always be at the top of such a new order

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 18h

I was on a panel at Conservative conference today where the UAE model was seriously proposed as a direction to take Britain’s immigration system.

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 18h

Or the maid, with the employer with grabby hands and nothing to eat but bread and noodles, no bedroom, and no way to leave.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 18h

Gosh, the age of "Believe in Britain you fools! We are going to be better off because of Brexit" didn't last long, Richard...

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 19h

We must emulate the United Arab Emirates, apparently.

Where to even start...?

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 19h

Shocked to hear that a populist radical right party is threatening judicial independence in the UK.

If only there were a little academic literature on this topic.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Jenrick waves wig at Tory conference and attacks judges as ‘open borders activists’

Robert Jenrick said judges have spent their entire lives fighting to keep illegal migrants in the UK

www.independent.co.uk

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 3d

Meloni weighing in today by claiming that Trump's plan is "a light that pierces the darkness". If a ceasefire can be established this would also make it less likely that massive demonstrations, like the one that has taken place in Rome today, will continue to take place.

Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 4d

[email protected] of the @financialtimes.com on the many protests & strikes in Italy to put pressure on Meloni over Gaza.

As l say in my comments for this article, ultimately l do not think she will shift her position.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 4d

Italy paralysed as Gaza protests mount pressure on Meloni on.ft.com/433zjAJ

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 2d

Spare a thought for Northern Ireland, the hostage of successive Conservative leaders trying to impress their members without a second thought for the consequences of their actions.

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 2d

Much is changing in UK politics, but of this we can still be certain: plenty of people that matter in England would be hard pressed to even find Armagh on a map.

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 2d

Spare a thought for Northern Ireland, the hostage of successive Conservative leaders trying to impress their members without a second thought for the consequences of their actions.

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 2d

I'd love to see the survey data Badenoch and Salvini are basing their strategic communication on, suggesting there is such great appetite in their countries to be "more like Trump's America"...

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 2d

Party leaders looking for quick fixes to impress older party members via references to a gold age of safety, warmth and community that never existed in those terms...

what could go wrong.

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 2d

I'd love to see the survey data Badenoch and Salvini are basing their strategic communication on, suggesting there is such great appetite in their countries to be "more like Trump's America"...

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 2d

And Farage will always retort whenever he is out-Reformed: "you are the parties of government. Why didn't you do this when you could?"

So established parties end up validating his policies, while still lacking credibility.

Lose-lose.

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 3d

British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies.

Reform says something unhinged
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Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
⬇️
Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
⬇️
Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
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And repeat...🔁

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 3d

Meloni weighing in today by claiming that Trump's plan is "a light that pierces the darkness". If a ceasefire can be established this would also make it less likely that massive demonstrations, like the one that has taken place in Rome today, will continue to take place.

Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 4d

[email protected] of the @financialtimes.com on the many protests & strikes in Italy to put pressure on Meloni over Gaza.

As l say in my comments for this article, ultimately l do not think she will shift her position.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 4d

Italy paralysed as Gaza protests mount pressure on Meloni on.ft.com/433zjAJ

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 3d

Many congrats, delighted this research is coming out in such high profile journal...

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 4d

Badenoch's bold plan to relaunch the Conservatives as Reform's tribute act.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Conservatives would take UK out of ECHR, Badenoch confirms

Leader says move is is necessary ‘to protect our borders, our veterans and our citizens’

www.theguardian.com

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 4d

[email protected] of the @financialtimes.com on the many protests & strikes in Italy to put pressure on Meloni over Gaza.

As l say in my comments for this article, ultimately l do not think she will shift her position.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 4d

Italy paralysed as Gaza protests mount pressure on Meloni on.ft.com/433zjAJ

Italy paralysed as Gaza protests mount pressure on Meloni

Italian premier under fire amid strikes and clashes with police in solidarity with Palestinians

on.ft.com

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 4d

Badenoch's bold plan to relaunch the Conservatives as Reform's tribute act.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Conservatives would take UK out of ECHR, Badenoch confirms

Leader says move is is necessary ‘to protect our borders, our veterans and our citizens’

www.theguardian.com

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 4d

The fact that Germany is also holding back on recognising a Palestinian state is a life saver for Meloni right now, since last thing she wants is for Italy to be the odd one out on any major international matter.

She's not Orbán, & Italy is not Hungary. Nor does she wants it to be under her govt.

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 4d

But the strength of feelings in the country over events in Gaza is obvious, and there is widespread sympathy for the plight of Palestinians even on the right. So, this is now a situation that Meloni finds difficult to handle.

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 4d

[email protected] of the @financialtimes.com on the many protests & strikes in Italy to put pressure on Meloni over Gaza.

As l say in my comments for this article, ultimately l do not think she will shift her position.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 4d

Italy paralysed as Gaza protests mount pressure on Meloni on.ft.com/433zjAJ

Italy paralysed as Gaza protests mount pressure on Meloni

Italian premier under fire amid strikes and clashes with police in solidarity with Palestinians

on.ft.com

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 4d

When a party completely vacates its political space to chase the electorate of an opponent, another party may reclaim such space for themselves.

Exhibit n. 1: the UK today.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Migration is Britain’s superpower. Our future depends on embracing that truth, not denying it | Zack Polanski

Labour has lost its nerve. At our party conference this weekend, we’re gathering to set things right, says Green party leader Zack Polanski

www.theguardian.com

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 4d

Polanski does not need to win an election, he needs to break through. Hence focusing exclusively on 100% left wing voters is a perfectly rational strategy.

One which carries huge risks for the Labour party under FPTP...

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