Big effort launching tonight by @ukonward to help the Conservatives reach out across generational divides & broaden appeal to ethnic minorities
Meanwhile in Bedfordshire ...https://twitter.com/NadineDorries/status/998442691435401217 …
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Replying to @sundersays @ukonward
After watching social democratic parties around the world commit suicide by adopting minority grievance ID politics, Theresa May wants in!
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Replying to @tomdupresh @ukonward
I might take your arguments about what people want a little bit more seriously if you stood for Parliament on a Generation Identity platform and managed to save a single deposit anywhere.
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Replying to @sundersays @ukonward
You’ve badly misunderstood our strategy
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Replying to @tomdupresh @ukonward
Au contraire. Indifference to the ballot box seems a perfectly rational *tactic* given that a very mutual indifference towards you. The idea that you would shun the ballot box for reasons of "strategy" if your ideas were as popular as you try to spin seems rather risible.
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Replying to @sundersays @ukonward
We’re not a political party, our aim is to shift public opinion and frame debates through our activism. Party politics rarely influences public opinion - maybe UKIP are the only contemporary exception
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Replying to @tomdupresh @ukonward
V.unconvincing claim indeed about party politics. So many counter-examples. SNP. Thatcher. Trump. Some social issues, eg transformation of attitudes to gay rights about govts, parties & civil society.
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Replying to @sundersays @ukonward
I would argue gay rights was driven by activism especially in the early years, the final stage was party politics
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Replying to @tomdupresh @ukonward
An enormous generation shift on gay rights in the UK. I don't know if you seek to reverse that or not, but its one case where your scepticism about generational attitudinal shifts simply has no credible ground to stand on.
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But why do those things happen... what I’m getting at you use this language that assumes a kind of inevitable progress towards your ideas. Hence the obsession with generation gaps and so on. I’m reminding you those shifts happen because of hard work, not by magic
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