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8 Jul, 17 tweets, 17 min read
Incredibly important discussion. Govt's failing mass infection strategy is based on libertarian ideology, not a prudent plan. @TheLancet @allthecitizens #JohnsonVariant #LongCovidKids
#NHS #COVID19
Hospitals already struggling. Record breaking attendances. Cancer operations being cancelled. ICUs filled with #COVID19 patients.
100 000 cases per day putting #NHS under incredible pressures. Vulnerable patients not being heard. @sajidjavid does not mention them. As if they don't exist. Abhorrent @doctor_oxford @Conservatives - is this the legacy you want to leave the future? #LongCovidKids @chilterns4
Masking is an expression of freedom. Supports economic confidence. By looking after each other, we spread freedom (rather than hoarding freedom for ourselves) @trishgreenhalgh
MPs - please don't leave us alone with this over summer recess. Come together cross-party. Maintain collective oversight & holding govt to account @CarolineLucas @Keir_Starmer @EdwardJDavey @sianberry @NicolaSturgeon @MarkDrakeford @Conservatives #LongCovid #COVID19 @chilterns4
Reckless unrepresentative illegitimate government. Out of step with public opinion. Extreme ideology controlling their thinking. Failure to protect. They must go. @chilterns4 #ProgressiveAlliance @SusanMichie
@richardhorton1 - there not a testable experiment taking place. No new knowledge being created. Instead, ideology from libertarian right forcing a cruel, appalling political decision upon us and our children. Totally unacceptable. We must hold govt to account. @chilterns4
@Debbie_abrahams - we need #ProgressiveAlliance. @UKLabour must get its act together. Urgently. @chilterns4
@Dr_PhilippaW - we need SNP to help form emergency #ProgressiveAlliance #DemocraticAlliance. Yes - go for independence later. But we need all political forces to join together now. @NicolaSturgeon @MarkDrakeford @Keir_Starmer @EdwardJDavey @sianberry @chilterns4
@KeeleyMP - @uklabour must join forces with all opposition party leaders including @theSNP and left behind @conservatives. We need emergency #ProgressiveAlliance @chilterns4
@KeeleyMP - yes. What is happening to our vaccine supply? Other countries catching up. Why no over 12's vaccination programme? (US and some EU have one)
@clivecookson - pointing out @sajidjavid's ideological commitments is something we must do. Because he sees this pandemic and people through the lens of these commitments. Because these put our kids at risk. Govt got this wrong at start of pandemic. They have got it wrong now.
@whippletom - not restrictions but precautions. A complete #COVID19 infrastructure that helps us fulfil our responsibilities to look after each other. Our govt is not protecting us. @allthecitizens
@Sir_David_King - test, track, trace still way out of #COVID19. Govt failed to use advantage last August of reduced 100's cases per day. Passing service to newly formed private company in May did not help. Refocus on #COVID19 protective infrastructure @chilterns4 #LongCovid
They are done. Thank you @TheLancet @allthecitizens. Ball is back in our court. @labourlewis @LaylaMoran @CarolineLucas @NicolaSturgeon @MarkDrakeford. We need emergency #ProgressiveAlliance. Right now. @chilterns4
A note on this thread. Written live during the discussion. A summary of presentations and comments. Plus some thoughts of my own. @TheLancet @allthecitizens
Video of emergency summit discussion
@TheLancet
@allthecitizens
@chilterns4
pscp.tv/w/c7XFBXR3LTEw…

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I think we must understand it is worse than we thought. Our govt is deliberately fuelling the pandemic. Goal of hybrid immunity policy is to expose our unvaccinated children to #COVID19. To 60% more transmissive Delta variant
#LongCovidKids @chilterns4 theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
A conscious policy design to accelerate the virus through the bodies of our children. No isolation for kids, no free lateral flow tests, forced back to work, no mandatory masks, no payment support. Scandalous generational burden of permanent scarring. @Conservatives @sajidjavid
Why? Because they have failed to keep us safe with proper #COVID19 infrastructure. Because #JohnsonVariant could not resist strongman Modi. Because ideology must come first: people last. Hallmarks of a degenerate regime #LongCovidKids
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6 Jul
If the message has not got through, then here it is again. Our govt has abandoned us. It has deliberately smashed social solidarity. Set us one against another. By foregoing its responsibility to protect, it has become an illegitimate, failing regime @Conservatives @sajidjavid
We are on our own. As we were at pandemic start. Stitching together mutual aid & joint action. Organised society & communities can respond:
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Civil Society - come together as whole services. Pool your people & resources. Maintain Covid-19 infrastructure (ignore govt advice post July 19)
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As Covid cases rise, this New Scientist item is good reminder of the importance of combining vaccination programme with social measures to suppress virus. We continue to lack a proper infrastructure for doing so. What little we have is about to be removed
newscientist.com/article/225725…
@sajidjavid using virus to cast himself as the new strong man is a disgrace. He made catastrophic error in his first statement as Health Secretary. And now he expects us to follow him into a very dark place. Johnson seems to be nowhere. We must try to help each other #NHS
@sajidjavid's admiration of Ayn Rand's hyper-individualism is the lens through which he views the virus. He does not see that we must hold together or fall together. He just sees his own individual desire to be free of interference. Your freedom to be safe & well does not count.
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4 Jul
What is a British firm? @UKLabour

theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
MINI Cooper - German owned by BMW
British Airways - Spanish owned by IAG
British Steel - Chinese owned by Jingye Group
Cadburys - US owned by Mondelez
And most notoriously, key British technology company ARM sold to Japan's SoftBank & now US's Nvidia
Buying British - strategy based on economic nationalism - will do us no good if we keep selling off the family silver. We need to grow globally relevant businesses in key industries. That means integration into core markets. That means EU
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Dr. Ruth Yeoman #FBPE #DemocraticAlliance Profile picture
29 May
Giving this more thought. Since the opposing parties lack a parliamentary majority, how will they secure PR? Whilst debates on PR go back & forth, we get closer to a 2022/3 General Election
#ProgressiveAlliance
#DemocraticAlliance
#FBPPR
#FBPE
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In the next GE, we must remove from power the people who have stolen the #conservative party. We will likely not have PR to help us. So we need to start building now a #ProgressiveAlliance. Goes beyond tactical voting. Makes choice easier for the voter
#DemocraticAlliance
#FBPPR
So, parties must resist temptation to channel demand for #ProgressiveAlliance into debates about PR & tactical voting. We need something more inventive. A platform for #DemocraticAlliance . A natural home for our votes
#FBPE
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@LaylaMoran
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What is a #ProgressiveAlliance ? It is the strategic answer to the meta-threat the people who have stolen the #Conservative party present to our democracy. To the freedom, power and solidarity we need to pursue all other progressive policy objectives.
@chilterns4
#FBPPR
#FBPE
There may be other strategies - such as tactical voting. But these put too great a burden on the voter. And gets the parties off the hook - they don't need to do anything. The parties must take back responsibility. They must serve their core public purpose of giving us voice.
It is not fair to keep asking the voter to shoulder the risks of perpetually losing parties. The task of the voter (especially under #FPTP) needs to be made easier with a binary choice - and it is the job of the opposing parties to provide one.
#FBPPR
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