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Paul Mason@paulmasonnews · Nov 6, 2024

Trump's apparent victory has 5 big implications for the UK: 🧵 1️⃣ It can happen here. He will back Farage, the Musk…

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Trump's UK victory has five major implications: far-right populism could spread to Britain, the UK must lead NATO as America becomes unreliable, mainstream misogyny will normalize, Labour must deliver real economic security to prevent voters turning to the far right, and the left must support Starmer's tough liberal approach to resist fascism rather than hamper it.

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    Trump's apparent victory has 5 big implications for the UK: 🧵 1️⃣ It can happen here. He will back Farage, the Musk propaganda machine will crank up against Labour; the Tories will remould themselves into Trump-lite Islamophobes ...

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    2️⃣ The UK needs to become the European leader of NATO, and all European countries need to hike spending on defence and democratic resilience. America is a permanently unreliable ally in this century

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    3️⃣ Misogyny will enter mainstream politics - and the whole anti-woke cocktail will be normalised by the BBC and alt media - that's proved successful in America. We need to stand up for women's rights across the board

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    4️⃣ Labour needs to redefine economic delivery: if we don't enhance people's economic security, real wages, personal security and the prospects of their kids - they will turn to the chimeric solutions of the far right....

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    5️⃣ What good is a performative left? Our job is to fight fascism in the communities it's taking hold of. That means a principled, tough liberalism on crime, migration and national pride - the American left's obsessions and actions just handed ammo to Trump in his battlegrounds. The Starmer project is the only project in town - the left is either part of it or an obstacle to resisting what is coming.