Unpopular, but I think encouraging people to take small actions each day to limit their climate impact is good, actually, cos if you are forced to act on something even in a minor way every day you will start thinking about it & maybe start thinking politicians should act more🤷♀️
Like I think the clapping for carers was good too for all it’s patronising twee side.
People generally hold values completely in the abstract. If they’re forced to think about them actively for a bit regularly I think it reinforces commitment a great deal. Makes it more real.
How often do average people really take time out of their day to think about the climate crisis? Not much. Maybe if they thought about it every time they load the dishwasher, even if fleetingly, they’d gradually invest more of their conception of self in wanting change.
Or maybe, you know, I’m raving meaninglessly. Currently unable to string a coherent sentence together out loud but for some reason I reckon I can type?
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It's a week old, but I've been recovering from the vaccine for the last couple of days, so forgive me, but...
We need to talk about the Times view on Channel Crossings. 🧵🧵👇👇 thetimes.co.uk/article/the-ti…
First para, of course we hear of "Britain's overstretched asylum and immigration services" but by what measure are they over stretched?
As my followers will be bored of hearing, numbers of asylum seekers dropped dramatically in the last year. They were stable & low before that.
If our asylum system is indeed overstretched, while France, Germany, Italy, etc all receive many more asylum seekers than we do, why is that?
The Times is not curious to ask. The blame is clearly allocated already, no need to inquire.
The Greek state so weak, so scared and so fascistic as to chicken out of recognising & awarding the work of @Iasonas_Apost rescuing refugees in distress in the Mediterranean.
Knowing Jason, I’m sure he’ll laugh off the award, but not the corrupt, wheedling far-right politicians.
Second reading of the Nationality & Borders Bill happening now.
Priti Patel claiming that you and I have "had enough of open borders" so... I'm obviously going to really enjoy this. 😑😑😑😒😒😒 bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/b…
LMAO Theresa May intervenes to say 'ang on a moment mate, I designed a whole hostile environment aimed at kicking out and cruelly excluding as many migrants as possible, can Patel not make out like no one's been trying to be awful to immigrants in the last decade?!
Doesn't this just tell you everything though. I might as well switch it off right now (oh how I wish I would take my own advice and do that)
Patel's approach is more of the same failed and evil rubbish that has come from the Tories for years.
Today is deadline day for EU citizens to apply to stay in their homes in the UK.
An incredible self-inflicted disaster. Starting tomorrow & over the next years, tens or even hundreds of thousands more people are going to lose rights & be forced into the hands of criminals.
Those people's landlords, employers and GPs are going to become gatekeepers for what essential services they can access.
We've already seen people wrongful turned away, there will be many, many more.
IPPR has found out over 100,000 of our EU citizen neighbours are still waiting in limbo. This settled status system was never going to work.
Add to that the Home Office's track record of incompetence and cruelty and this is a disaster waiting to happen.
Simply no justification whatsoever based on the idea of "safe first country" to send people to Rwanda.
Makes a complete mockery of their own flawed logic.
That was well explained by a @UNHCRUK rep on #r4today just now - UN being unusually vocal in its criticism of Patel's plans.
To be absolutely clear, though, this is not going to happen. This country won't stand for it and, frankly, nor will the likes of Rwanda. Patel and Johnson have misread the public again if they think there is widespread support for this level of abject, insensate cruelty #r4today
These are pathetic, re-hashed-from-the-90s, failed approaches of the past that our clueless Home Secretary will lay before Parliament in her new Bill come this week or next.
We must demand MPs throw them out with the contempt they deserve & introduce a real new approach #r4today