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May I inject a note of hope into Polly Toynbee’s untrammeled gloom? Many people of all political colours are moved into action now by distress of individuals and families who are suffering under the cosh of lawful oppression and unrestrained discrimination theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Psychologists have written about people being overcome by feelings of humiliation or shame, fear or distrust, insecurity or loneliness, or by a sense of being trapped and powerless under the abuses of power by the state.
George Lakoff, in his book The Political Mind, calls for “empathy, responsibility and courage” in standing up to such abuses. There is plenty of all that in #Tottenham , and I guess in all the UK.
Thread is from my letter published by The Guardian. It is not for or against the EU. It is profoundly against the laws made by the #UKParliament which have created the #housingcrisis and shredded #SocialSecurity. Those laws can be changed in or out of EU, gu.com/p/b7p8p/stw 
