How the right wing owns opposition in the UK. A manual.

1) Keep them divided. Libdems, Labour, Greens. Keep the factions at each other's throats.

A divided opposition is a defeated opposition under #FPTP.

2) Make them eat your sick.

Only an enemy wants to work with our friends and allies.

You can spot enemies because they're not festooned with union jacks.

Make them bow before Brexit, the "will of the people" - the blank cheque of the far right and disaster capital.

3) Fight a culture war. It steals millions of votes of those whose lives are most blighted. Blame the blacks. The migrants. The foreigners. The woke.

You know that some in opposition will ditch their principles to appeal to those lost to populism.

It's a win win.

4) Drown the truth in an endless rain of lies. Soak the population in the words they want to hear: jobs! victory! growth! BRITISH! FREE!

Use absolute power and wealth to destroy, buy or infiltrate all the organisations, mechanisms that might hold you to account for your lies.

This is not "politics as normal", but @UKLabour is still chasing dreams of winning #FPTP in a country fallen to populism.

If you pay someone to tell you how to win an election, they're not going to say "Work with other parties".

But that's the answer. https://leftfootforward.org/2021/01/mega-poll-labour-could-secure-landslide-in-2024-by-working-with-other-progressive-parties/

If you're still asking how this can be, you're still in denial about populism. Look what happened in the US. It's happened here too.

Government support WILL NOT COLLAPSE. The culture war has arrived. This is politics now.

So we must #WorkTogether. https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1356994025019105281?s=20