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Apr 2, 2019 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
I just want to make this thread, because you've seen the "who funds you" trolling on all my tweets and I know it will continue into the People's Vote campaign when it happens. The whole point of it is to suggest that my words are motivated by financial interest, not civic duty.
It's really important for them to question our motives at @OFOCBrexit, because they know why we're dangerous:
The UK has a crisis of faith in politicians and business experts because people don't trust their motives. Whereas young people fighting for their own futures is pure.
The best way to be sure whether I do this for financial reasons or because I feel morally obligated to, is to look at what I did before we started getting support from all of you.
i.e. Which came first: The campaigning or the funding?
So...
Who was funding me when I started Twittering about Brexit in February 2016 and made this video in March 2016?
Answer: I was working for @ECDHRbxl in Brussels in Sep 2015 - Mar 2016.
(No Funding)
Who was funding me when I was campaigning in the street in June 2016?
irishtimes.com/news/world/uk/…
Or produced this video on June 7 2016?
Answer: I was delivering pizzas for @Dominos_UK from March to August 2016 So I could pay for food while living in my parents' house and campaigning in the lead up to the referendum.
(No Funding)
Who was funding me when I made this video in October 2016?
I was working for @AlterEU, an NGO that spends most of its time CRITICISING THE EU and helping the reform process. [So the exact OPPOSITE of what any Pro-EU funder would want me to be doing)
(Still no campaign funding)
Yep that's me on the right 😉
Who was funding me when I started to calling up my old pal Nigel?
I was working for @EURightsAgency, which yes, to be fair, technically means I was working for the EU. But my background is EU law, my passion is human rights, and my skill is advocacy. OF COURSE I'd end up working in EU Human Rights advocacy at some point.
But I quit my 12-month traineeship 2 months early to deal with Brexit, with "the bank of mum and dad" as my only safety net.
But I launched a crowdfunder on 7 January 2018. And your generosity helped OFOC take its first steps.
crowdfunder.co.uk/o-f-o-c-our-fu…
Since then, we've survived off of a combination of your donations to our crowdfunders and (once we'd got on Sky News and people realised we could actually get stuff done) the groups mentioned below helping as well.
And you're continuing to keep us afloat to this day. So all I can say is thank you!
crowdfunder.co.uk/ofoc

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If you or a family member are one of the 6 million people waiting for NHS treatment... but you've decided the pandemic is over so you've stopped wearing masks in public transport and other unventilated spaces with strangers...

Blame yourself for adding to those NHS wait times.
As this tweet has triggered the Anti-lockdowners, I'll remind them the science backs it completely.

Higher numbers of covid patients = less capacity to treat other illnesses.
So even if Covid wasn't itself a major threat, allowing an uncontrolled spread increases other threats.
Oh and the British Medical Association is saying exactly that.
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Nadhim Zahawi defending letting Eton avoid paying tax.
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Let's do this seriously for a sec...

Private schools protect inequality. They ensure some kids have a better shot than others based on their parents' money, which in turn, means THEIR kids are also more likely to have a better shot...etc

No charity should cement inequality.
That's why the argument that private schools take pressure off state schools is bullsh**.

The money exists in the UK to give everyone a great education. The fact that the money is concentrated among the rich IS THE PROBLEM. It should NOT be the basis of our education system!
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Feb 9
The main flaw in Brexit was not knowing what the Single Market was.

It exists so supply chains don't have 28 DIFFERENT sets of rules to follow: less red tape.

Most people thought it just meant 'free trade'.

So Leavers thought "taking back control" of our laws wouldn't cost us.
But it's not their fault.

The BBC was still telling people the Single Market was a mere free trade area until I got them to change it in late 2018. But it was a little too late at that point.😬
That's why a Single Market explainer was the first long video I made, back in May 2016.

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Feb 9
If I'm in crutches tomorrow or seriously injured, it will be my own fault for trying to visually illustrate the stupidity of what I just I just heard in PMQs.
Wish me luck. 😅
This video is why i'm going to bed early tonight. 🤕

I did this THREE TIMES!
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Here we go... A thread about that Jimmy Carr joke.

Summary: No topic is off-limits for comedy, but that joke crossed the line, because even the reason he INTENDED it to be funny isn't actually OK. But I am worried it's being used to justify censorship in upcoming legislation.
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If you go to a Comedy show called "His Dark Materials", you can't complain the subject matter is too dark.
BUT good comics handle dark topics in neutral or even progressive ways. e.g. Using it to attack bigotry/ ridicule bigots.
Carr is usually a 'good comic'. But not here.
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Why did the Jimmy Carr joke cross the line?

He would never have said "Nobody mentions blacks being killed because nobody wants to talk about the positives." He chose "Gypsies". Because anti-black racism is too unpopular.
Romani people & Travellers don't have that protection.
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The reason I always say morality should be based more on logic than on emotion is:

A) People feel more empathy for people they identify with.
That's what lets people prioritise the needs of their race/class/sex/religion at the expense of others and still feel like a good person.
Tory MPs don't think they're bad people when they raise national insurance on people who can't heat their homes.
They just have more empathy with the bankers they grew up with.
So they find it easier to justify working people's suffering to themselves as 'protecting the economy'.
Racists don't think they're bad people.
They just don't feel as much empathy for people who don't look like them as they do for people they identify with.
So when they hear anything that sounds like it may balance things for minorities, all they feel is an attack on white people.
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