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Maybe John Milbank the godfather of #RadicalOrthodoxy + #BlueLabour is still be angry about this article from 2020? #PostLiberal #Hungary opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-… 
Latest turnout figure for 30 mins before polls 67.80% - closing in on 2018’s 69.73%. There are no exit polls in #Hungary so turnout figure will be most exciting stat until results start coming in round 10pm CET.
Preliminary results favour #Fidesz but we are at some distance Still from full picture. Press pen for Fidesz Election night event dull: no spokes people. No across to main event and no free buffet (Humph!). I am off to some where jollier.
My brother (Maurice Glasman) the Labour Peer, is back in the spotlight-on Newsnight tonight. Which is unsurprising-I’ll explain why: he evolved an entire political philosophy, #BlueLabour. I’m not going to expound or advocate for it here, but explain the relevance to Labour now/1
His thinking was based on earlier ideas which informed the reconstruction of post-war Germany, based on what skills people contribute to society, rather than their market price. That’s why vocational quals are prized in Germany; Workers sit on company boards;.../2
...regional banks fund local businesses etc. Critically, it led to a rejection of EU ‘Free movement’ as that allowed swathes of communities established that way to be undercut. Labour, at the fag-end of the Brown era, loved it. It was neither New nor Old Labour, but-Ta-Dah! .../3
