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New substack: why so many people are content with economic stagnation: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/wallowing-...
Wallowing in poverty
Why we're not bothered about economic growth.
chrisdillow.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:39 AM
New substack: why so many people are content with economic stagnation: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/wallowing-...
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Heartening evidence - this time from @stellacreasy.bsky.social in the Guardian - that the blockage towards better relations with Europe is the exceptionalists at the heart of UKG and the pro-European movement as much as Brexiters.
The UK has to stop ignoring Europe and the 27.
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The UK has to stop ignoring Europe and the 27.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Heartening evidence - this time from @stellacreasy.bsky.social in the Guardian - that the blockage towards better relations with Europe is the exceptionalists at the heart of UKG and the pro-European movement as much as Brexiters.
The UK has to stop ignoring Europe and the 27.
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The UK has to stop ignoring Europe and the 27.
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New substack: why governments cannot offer competence alone: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/on-compete...
On competenciness
Centrists don't offer actual competence, but merely a false illusion of it.
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November 6, 2025 at 12:26 PM
New substack: why governments cannot offer competence alone: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/on-compete...
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À tale of two cities.
The Macron presidency in Paris, which ends in 2027,will have coincided, broadly with the Brexit period in London.
There is a interesting comparison which tells us something about the UK, about France, and maybe even Brexit.
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The Macron presidency in Paris, which ends in 2027,will have coincided, broadly with the Brexit period in London.
There is a interesting comparison which tells us something about the UK, about France, and maybe even Brexit.
A 🧵
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
À tale of two cities.
The Macron presidency in Paris, which ends in 2027,will have coincided, broadly with the Brexit period in London.
There is a interesting comparison which tells us something about the UK, about France, and maybe even Brexit.
A 🧵
The Macron presidency in Paris, which ends in 2027,will have coincided, broadly with the Brexit period in London.
There is a interesting comparison which tells us something about the UK, about France, and maybe even Brexit.
A 🧵
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The mistake many in Labour are making is to think in tribal terms. What matters is a question of fact: can it fix the economy & public services? It should do whatever it takes to achieve these, & worry about factionalism later. Whether it can do this is another issue.
“There is a progressive majority available that can defeat Reform and Farage ... But I think the moral of the story is that until people feel change, and feel that we are delivering change with Labour values, [they] will not turn out and support us” - Health Secretary Wes Streeting, Sunday Times
![Last week’s result in Caerphilly brought its own grim record for Labour: a vote share of just 11 per cent, lower than even the most downbeat prediction. Streeting said the “stark message and warning” from the voters was to be bolder, and the worst thing the party could do would be to disrespect them by dismissing it.
“There is a progressive majority available that can defeat Reform and Farage,” he said. “The Labour Party needs to show, through our actions, not just through our words, that we are going to deliver the change people voted for. There are many examples of things moving in the right direction. But I think the moral of the story is that until people feel change, and feel that we are delivering change with Labour values, [they] will not turn out and support us.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:refbwihhzcqqfulwhcou44sr/bafkreieuliucwc6dyxmfuygoxgurxeclrmkjcve2fi7qdbkn2us6fbzqg4@jpeg)
October 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The mistake many in Labour are making is to think in tribal terms. What matters is a question of fact: can it fix the economy & public services? It should do whatever it takes to achieve these, & worry about factionalism later. Whether it can do this is another issue.
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We had to protect ourselves. We did. And since then on areas like issuing debt, defence commissioner Ukraine funding, vaccine procurement and covid recovery we've been able to respond in a way that would have been impossible with UK at the table.
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February 2, 2025 at 8:55 AM
We had to protect ourselves. We did. And since then on areas like issuing debt, defence commissioner Ukraine funding, vaccine procurement and covid recovery we've been able to respond in a way that would have been impossible with UK at the table.
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