1/ I cannot believe it! Sir Day-Late-And-A-Dollar-Short does it again! Conspicuous by his absence throughout #COP26 , he pops up after the ball is over to say this? Just checked his timeline and not a single tweet about climate in the past 10 days! Where is the opposition?!
2/ We are facing literally the biggest existential crisis humankind has ever known. The Paris Accords have gone, and we now have an even bigger mountain to climb than we did 6 years ago due to inaction and broken promises. (Don't suppose Keith can say much about those, tho)
3/ I, for one, am with @GeorgeMonbiot when he says the only option now is civil disobedience. Leaders in the Global North are wedded to protecting the neoliberal status quo, and their corporate sponsors in the fossil fuel and related industries. They won't make the changes needed
4/ Green Party policies are all very cuddly. But they don't go nearly far enough, and try to operate within a political framework that has failed humanity. LibDems on bikes won't do it. Climate justice requires a radical recalibration on a global scale. #GlasgowDisaster
5/ If you think you can sit back and wait for world "leaders" or industry to come up with a solution, you are deluding yourselves. Get involved in your community. Take action NOW. #GlasgowDisastertakeclimateaction.uk/join?_ga=2.219…
6/ If you are into politics, join a party like @BThroughParty that has proper policies to fight climate catastrophe.
1. The thing is, everyone falls into the same pattern time and time again:
a) Outrage on Twitter 2) Sign petitions 3) Email our MPs 4) Rinse and repeat ad nauseam.
2. (You know I'm pee'd off if my come in paragraphs with sub-paragraphs, btw)
3. Then tomorrow or the next day it will be overtaken by some new scandal, and nobody will even remember, or if they do, will barely care.
Round and round and round it goes. Where it stops, nobody knows.
1. The Tory govt. - ably assisted by Labour, who imo under Blair were one of the worst govt's in terms of civil liberties - are seeking to push through social media legislation in the name of "safety" that, effectively, amounts to a new sedition law: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition
2. Free speech is not the freedom to incite hatred, criminal acts, or put people in fear of their lives. Freedom of expression is defined in Art. 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, in the following terms:
1. Raab may be right to say that it's ridiculous for someone convicted of domestic violence to claim right to family life with his victim to stop his deportation. If (unlike Theresa May's cat story) this genuinely happened, you can bet your bottom dollar the courts rejected it.
2. But what Raab is seeking to do is take that right away from everyone - however sustainable their claim may be - on the basis of a few that might push their luck.
3. To put it in context: the right of appeal against a Deportation Order per se was taken away by this govt. in 2014. You can only appeal on the basis that it is either a breach of your Human Rights or a breach of the Refugee Convention.
1. This is my Scottish Papa, Joseph Nicol Bell - 2nd from the right in the back row. He lied about his age to sign up to fight in WW1. He was injured in the Somme.
2. He was a Labour man all his life, and worked as a forester after the war. He was in the Home Guard during WW2.
Keir Starmer was DPP between 2008 and 2013.
Some of these spy cops are likely to have infiltrated protest and opposition movements during that period.
No wonder he wanted to abstain on the Spy Cops bill.
Congratulations to @fruitbatmania
Don't support her persecutors!
1. At the time of the #ChickenCoup, on the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne in an area of Liverpool known for one or two rough pubs, a window was smashed at the side of a building that just so happened to have Angela Eagle's constituency office at the back of it.
2. I'm sure you all remember the claims that a brick (it wasn't) had been thrown through her window (it wasn't) by Corbyn supporters to threaten Eagle. In fact, the police later confirmed it was a bit of masonry, but never found out who did it.
3. Then there was the "cancelled meeting in Luton" due to the "hotel receiving threats". Except there was no evidence of any threats being made. The reason given by the hotel was that they became aware of the nature of the meeting (maybe they were Tory supporters)