George Monbiot
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30°C above normal in the Arctic today.
40°C above normal in the Antarctic today.
It would be unbelievable if it were not true.
And it is terrifying beyond words.
The war we have waged against the natural world has, in climatic terms, just gone nuclear.
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She was groomed by dark-money lobby groups working for Big Tobacco, Big Oil and foreign oligarchs. Now Liz Truss is in office and trashing this country on their behalf.
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Sorry to repeat myself, but you *really* need to know this.
Under the government's Public Order Bill, anyone who has protested in the previous 5 years can be forced to "submit to ... being fitted with, or the installation of, any necessary apparatus" to monitor your movements.
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A simultaneous 30°C anomaly in the Arctic and 40°C anomaly in the Antarctic, among the most terrifying events scientists have recorded, was a footnote in the bulletins.
One celeb slapping another: headlines everywhere.
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a bant.
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We should never underestimate the extent to which the BBC changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage, other far right extremists and the Tufton Street junktanks, while shutting out progressive voices. 🧵
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A source at the
@metpoliceuk
says the reason why junior Downing Street staff got fined, while senior figures didn't is that the senior people failed to answer the questionnaire.
So non-cooperation gets you off.
I'll remember that next time I'm arrested for protesting.
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If you are middle class, they call you a champagne socialist
If you are working class, they say it's the politics of envy
If you wear leather shoes, they call you a hypocrite
If you don't, they call you a hippy.
Everyone, apparently, is disqualified from challenging the system.
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Next month, the Conservatives will have been in office for 12 years. I can think of dozens of ways in which they have made life in this country worse. I cannot think of one way in which they have made life in this country better.
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Toby Young was admitted to Oxford University despite failing to make the required grades, after his father, Lord Young, made a discreet phone call to a well-placed friend. You were saying something about privileged children, Toby?
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To my friends in the media:
This is a time of high drama, I agree. But while you gossip endlesly about who's in and who's out, you have almost entirely ignored the Public Order Bill that was passed in the Commons this week: the most draconian legislation of the modern era.
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Everything wrong with our politics, in one story:
Hedge fund manager buys large estate on Dartmoor.
Uses vast fortune to challenge the right to camp there. Wins.
Local people call on their MP to amend the legislation.
Discover he's been funded by the hedge fund manager.
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I'm on my way home from
#COP26
, full of frustration and fury after reading the draft declaration. The world's powerful governments propose to do more to defend the fossil fuel industry than to defend life on Earth.
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There was no Conservative Party on my ballot paper today. Instead there was something called Local Conservatives. They're so desperate to distance themselves from Boris Johnson that they've gone and changed the name of the party.
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Last night I watched
#DontLookUp
. It was like seeing my adult life flash past me.
Even down to the morning TV show where I totally lost it while trying, for the 1000th time, to explain what climate breakdown would do.
All the anger, the frustration, the desperation: I feel it.
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Last night I checked into the emergency department at my local hospital*. I saw firsthand what has happened to the NHS. However much you read, it doesn't prepare you for the terrible reality. This thread tells a now-ordinary but - in this rich nation - almost unbelievable story.
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Last night I ate my first 3-D constructed steak, made entirely from plants, at the great Chouchou restaurant in Stockholm. It's astonishing. The texture's exactly right and the taste is excellent.
This is *before* we have precision fermented proteins, encapsulated fats and heme.
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No democracy can survive without annoying and disruptive protest.
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OMFG. Coffey as Environment Secretary.
Goodbye to all we hold dear.
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To all the people saying "they should have locked the Just Stop Oil protesters up for longer", enjoy your weekend.
But please remember that you wouldn't have a weekend, or any other fundamental right, were it not for protesters who were reviled by people like you.🧵
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To stay on X or to go, now that Musk has turned this platform into an incubator for fascism?
I don't blame anyone for leaving. But I'm staying. Why? Because of this solid political principle:
*Never let the far right drive you out of any space.*
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There is a word for people who take pleasure in the suffering of others.
And they shouldn't be allowed anywhere near government.
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This should be all over the front pages. The government's terminating our right to protest, through amendments sneaked into the Police Bill at the last minute.
It's the biggest assault on democracy in 70+ years, and hardly anyone seems to know.
My column
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I’ve seen some disturbing things in my time, but the howling silence in most of the UK media about the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, whose measures include stifling protest and legislative cleansing of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers, is close to the top of the list.
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Last night, for the first time in over 20 years, I was on
#bbcqt
. Someone dropped out the day before and they urgently needed to fill the seat. Though I was losing my voice, I wasn't going to wait another 20 years. You can watch the programme here:
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Rishi Sunak has presided over some of this government's cruellest decisions. Don't let them persuade you that he's the saviour who will rescue us from this mess.
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4 months after my mother passed away,
@VodafoneUK
still won't cancel her account. Our calls, when we finally get through, have been met with extreme rudeness and aggression, and demands that my frail, confused father answers impossible, irrelevant questions. But it gets worse ...
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1. I’m very grateful for the response to my appearance on Question Time, but also puzzled. I felt that in all cases I was simply stating the bleeding obvious.
Is this now so rare in public life that it becomes an event when someone does it?
The grim truth seems to be: yes. 🧵
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The longest sentence handed down to a violent racist rioter this week is shorter than the sentences imposed on entirely peaceful environmental protesters last month.
Labour must repeal the Tory laws that treat peaceful protest more severely than violent disorder and assault.
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This is a massive scandal, perhaps the biggest so far under this government.
The secret, under-the-counter contracts given to really weird companies to deliver PPE and other pandemic services.
It needs more exposure.
Please RT and circulate. Thanks.
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Every fascist movement in history has been backed by plutocrats. But until recently, they tended to keep quiet about it.
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It's not just a general election we need. It's a complete democratic makeover. It should begin with getting the money out of politics, and full financial transparency for everyone in public life.
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Remember: the reason we are locking down for a 3rd time is because of the government’s failure to contain the virus. Containment means an effective test, trace, isolate and support system. Our system was handed to cronies and profiteers, and the £12bn spent on it was wasted.
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Keyworker (noun), definition: A person whose work is overlooked and undervalued, until the shit hits the fan.
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How many of you know what Cruella Braverman's Public Order Bill contains?
It's frankly unbelievable: legislation you might expect in Russia, Iran or Egypt. Here's a summary from my column today:
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A Chancellor who knows nothing of economics.
A Justice Secretary who knows nothing of justice.
An Environment Secretary who knows nothing of the natural world.
A Prime Minister who knows nothing of the national interest.
People in this country have had enough of non-experts.
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I would put this cartoon in the atrium of every economics department and finance ministry.
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What a total waste of time, life and possibility the past 12 years of government in this country have been.
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Lula's victory is the best news we've had all year. Bolsonaro was a threat not only to the lives of Brazilians, but to life on Earth. Some of the harm he did can be reversed. Some is irreparable. But at least he's out.
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We warned and we warned and we warned.
We were ignored, mocked and vilified.
But we were right.
And there is precisely zero satisfaction in saying so.
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To my astonishment, I’m 60 today. I didn't expect to make 30: it was nearly curtains so many times. I owe my life to remarkable luck, friends, family, the NHS and, on one occasion, a total stranger on the road.
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I woke up thinking of all the public services we've been told by the Tories we can no longer afford.
Miraculously, in these straitened times, it turns out we can afford a massive bonus for the very rich AND a massive gift to the fossil fuel companies.
Austerity was a con.
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My friend and hero
@GretaThunberg
came round to ours today, and we had a wonderful and inspiring three hours talking about every aspect of the climate emergency and how to confront it. I feel even more determined than I was before.
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Remember when
Energy privatisation would bring down prices
Rail privatisation would boost investment
Water privatisation would lead to better management of sewers, droughts and floods?
Remember the promised land. And remember where we are today.
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While Boris Johnson is a blight on this country, and it is high time he fell, remember that he is also a proxy for other powers: Rupert Murdoch, Frederick Barclay, the property developers and financiers who fund the Tory Party. It's not just a new PM we need. It's a new system.
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Remember:
NO ONE VOTED for any of the major policies Truss is putting forward.
How can we call this a democracy when the Prime Minister can govern without the people's consent?
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Blocking the roads like this is completely unacceptable. They should lock up the people who did this and throw away the key.
#JustStopOil
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“We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective.”
Kurt Vonnegut
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I'm really sick of being told I must be mentally ill because I cried. Knowing what we face, there would be something wrong if I didn't.
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A Parliament that expels MPs for explaining that a pathological liar has lied becomes party to the lies.
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We've wasted five years in this country, and will waste many more, on Brexit, whose sole purpose was to resolve an internal dispute in the Conservative Party.
Years we could have spent addressing our real, existential crisis, the threat to the living systems that keep us alive.
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Look, it's really simple. Fuel bills are so high because fossil gas companies are coining it.
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The sentences handed to the five
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campaigners are utterly disproportionate. Four and five years in prison for peaceful protest? This is what you might expect in Russia or Egypt, not in a supposed democracy.
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As always, the media are clustering around
#VichyNige
like flies on sh1t. But the Green result is far more remarkable, as it happened without the massive publicity Reform was given.
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Please:
Ignore the Prime Minister
Listen to the scientists
Stay close to home if you can this weekend
Don’t go to the pub
Stay 2m from other people
Flatten the second peak
The government is ending lockdown before the pandemic is under control.
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Our country is now held together with goodwill and sticky tape. As successive Conservative governments have ripped up society with austerity, privatisation, Brexit and disaster capitalism, we survive because
frontline workers and volunteers go way beyond the call of duty.
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To my dear trolls:
During my investigative work in West Papua, Brazil and East Africa, I was shot at, beaten up, shipwrecked, stung into a coma by hornets and pronounced clinically dead from cerebral malaria. If you think a few rude words will deter me, you are mistaken.
Thanks
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Johnson’s government was casually corrupt. Truss’s is systematically corrupt. She has chosen a cabinet that listens to the money, not the people. Her advisers come from dark money thinktanks: covertly-funded lobby groups, promoting the interests of oligarchs and corporations.🧵
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In Brazil, the bald uakari is rather rudely known as o macaco inglês. It means the English monkey.
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Thanks everyone for your support. My voice just held out to the end of the show, but now it has almost completely gone. I'm not actually ill: the cold has passed. But I'm looking forward to getting to bed. Let's hope it's not another 23 years until I'm back on
#QuestionTime
.
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Water privatisation was a predictable disaster. No psychic powers were needed to foresee that, rather than making long-term investments in sewage treatment, leak prevention and drought preparedness, shareholders would choose to channel dividends into their own pockets.
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Jacinda Ardern is the opposite of the power-mad zombies who misgovern the UK. Bereft of ideas, they cling onto power for power's sake, and are prepared to destroy anything and anyone standing in their way, in an effort to retain it.
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£37bn for a private sector Test and Trace programme that made "no measurable difference" to the pandemic.
£12.5bn for private hospitals to "stand by" ... and do nothing.
£10bn in overpayments for PPE.
And the government tells us there's no more money for the NHS.
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OK, so this is what we're going to do.
We double down on support/giving networks for the people this government is going to dump on. It won't make up for the failures of the state, but we'll do our best.
We support each other with love and strength through the dark times
Thread/
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If you are middle class, they call you a champagne socialist
If you are working class, they say it's the politics of envy
If you wear leather shoes, they call you a hypocrite
If you don't, they call you a hippy
Everyone, apparently, is disqualified from challenging the system
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Solidarity with
@GaryLineker
. He has retained his humanity, despite the repeated demands of the billionaire press that it be shut down.
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For 20 years, the billionaire press told us "we can easily adapt to a warmer world".
Try telling that to people in Germany, Belgium and the western seaboard of North America.
And this is just one degree of heating.
The media did this, as surely as the fossil fuel companies.
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From some dear trolls on Twitter, I'm getting: "Haha, you lost 😂😂😂"
As if the only people who will be affected by the possible collapse of our life support systems are environmentalists.
No. Everyone on the planet lost. Including the trolls.
#GlasgowDisaster
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Those who claim the Nazis were socialists, on the grounds that "Nazi" is a compression of National Socialist, doubtless also believe that shepherd's pie is made of shepherds, and cottage pie is made of cottages.
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Forgive my scepticism, but I'm beginning to get an inkling of suspicion that Elon Musk hasn't the faintest idea what he's doing.
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No, those problems are not caused by immigration.
They are caused by AUSTERITY.
Immigrants are the scapegoats the government uses to shift the blame for the impacts of austerity.
@GeorgeMonbiot
I can’t get a doctors appointment because of immigration
My kids education is suffering because of overcrowded classes
More demand on housing means less availability and higher prices
Pretty basic really,even for a fruitloop like George
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It's awful to see people responding to this thread by blaming either staff or patients for what is happening to the NHS. In other words, repeating the falsehoods spread by the government and the billionaire press. Don't you realise what they are doing? They *want* it to fail.
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Tory ministers and the billionaire press have today made it crystal clear, with their scare stories, that what they fear most is a progressive alliance.
So let's give them a progressive alliance.
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I argue that the BBC, as much as any other body, caused the disaster that has befallen the UK. Almost every day, it breaks its own rules to give dark-money thinktanks a massive platform, without revealing who funds them and on whose behalf they speak.
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I won't apologise for supporting Jeremy Corbyn. While he got some things wrong (as we all do), his policies offered us the best chance we've had in decades of escaping from the cage of neoliberalism.
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The biggest and worst news humanity has ever received - the collapse of life on Earth - was revealed by the
#IPBES
report yesterday. Only two UK newspapers (Guardian and Independent) carried it on their front pages. As for the rest ... you've guessed it. Thread/
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With his reinstatement of Cruella Braverman as Home Secretary, we see what Sunak really stands for:
Crushing civil liberties, persecuting refugees, sacrificing lives to the billionaire press.
The Nasty Party never went away.
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I was in hospital for tests this morning. A nurse asked me “How come so many people are wearing masks? Is there something I don’t know?” I almost lost the power of speech.
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I believe most people, if they read Labour's manifesto, would think "this is the kind of country I want". The problem is that most people have not read it, and instead get a completely twisted version, accompanied by extravagant smears and lies, from the media.
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Me: Stop correcting everyone, it's really annoying.
My 9-year-old: It's not my fault, I get my pedantness from you.
Me (before I can stop myself): It's pedantry, not pedantness.
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Here's why they haven't let me loose on
@bbcquestiontime
for 20 years.
From Politics Live yesterday.
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The BBC commits grave breaches of its own impartiality rules every day, letting dark-money junktanks pose as objective sources, rather than the corporate lobbyists they are. This bias doesn't favour the left. It favours the right. "BBC leftwing bias" is a complete invention.
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Racism became prevalent because it was required to justify slavery, and the theft of land, labour and resources by colonialism.
Today it assists voter suppression, economic and civic exclusion, real estate grabs and mass incarceration.
It has always driven by power and greed.
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This is an extraordinary result, suggesting people are ready for a massive change in the way we measure and achieve well-being. It's the best news I've seen for a long time.
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We appear to have normalised the collapse of the Great Barrier Reef, 90% of whose parts have bleached this year. Or so the lack of horror and fury suggests. What else are we prepared to overlook, so that fossil fuel companies can keep making their billions?
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Horrific crimes against civilians are not redeemed by horrific crimes against civilians.
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The popular revolt against river pollution is one of the most inspiring things I've seen all year.
Keep raising a stink against the stink.
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If the government can suddenly decide to spend another £100bn on containing Covid-19, it shows that state failures to address our climate and ecological emergencies have nothing to do with a lack of money and everything to do with a lack of will.
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Here's my article about who we are, why we're trapped, why we are heading for planetary collapse, and what we must do to prevent it. It might not be saying much, but I think this is the best thing I've written.
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Utter brilliance. And truth.
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The billionaire press is throwing anything and everything at Corbyn now. Please ask yourself why it might be doing this.
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1. This is the only radiator in our house. We haven't turned it on yet, or used any other heating source. Yet we are always warm. Why? Because this house (which we rent) was built almost to passive house standards. Our bodies/cooking/appliances are sufficient to heat it. 🧵
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While I'm delighted to see the back of the Tories, this election should remind us that our electoral system is not fit for purpose. It should not be possible to achieve a massive majority on a minority of the vote.
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If a majority of the people of Scotland wish to leave the United Kingdom, Westminster has no moral right to stop them from making this decision. This is supposed to be a union, not an empire.
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Please, do NOT shop for Britain.
Consumerism drives us towards an even greater crisis than the pandemic: the collapse of our life support systems.
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How do you make voters feel better about their circumstances, without actually improving their lives? You performatively mistreat other people, who have no vote, to show your voters that someone sits below them in the pecking order.
That's what Manston, and Braverman, are about.
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Every day, I see people claim that protests and civil disobedience are “undemocratic”.
How do you think you got the vote?
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Let's not bail out the airlines.
Let's not bail out the oil companies.
Let's emerge from the pandemic into a new, green economy.
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Could we please stop describing this nightmare as “a high quality of life”.
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