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Jan 23 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
@peterwalker99 The Mail is running a dishonest propaganda campaign against cyclists. It's trying to tell people the new Highway Code overhauls are introducing new rules. This is a total lie, this is how it was when I took my driving test in 1977.
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 dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
Everyone of these so called knew rules were as taught to me in my driving lessons, and I was clearly told failure to adhere to them, or failing to explain this to the examiner in your driving test, would result in you failing your driving test.
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It's deliberately trying to whip up hatred against cyclists. Just look at the comments under the article.
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4/ They've got this as the top article on the Mail Online. I specifically thing this is designed to for Boris Johnson into a reversal, when he is in a weakened position, and needs the support of every faction in the Conservative Party to survive.

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Jan 24
I am putting my thread written spontaneously underneath @GeorgeMonbiot's tweet, which is focused fury, in a proper thread. This is so it can be read like thread. Although I won't be able to number it, so look for unroll at the end. There's a few additional tweets.
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Jan 23
@BootstrapCook, is to my knowledge the only person to ever highlight this phenomena.

"The Smart Price, Basics and Value range products offered as lower-cost alternatives are stealthily being extinguished from the shelves"
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I can not only confirm this phenomenon, but can confirm it happened before, in I think 2008-9. After the financial crash, there was a sudden rise in food prices. All the supermarkets immediately removed the "value" ranges from the shelves.
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This appeared to be to stop shoppers buying the "value" ranged products, instead of the standard range of products, which had just shot up in price. It was definitely not that they ran out. One day the shelves were full of these products, the next day they were gone.
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Jan 23
Historical precedent is probably the most important indicator of what is possible and what isn't. The only historical precedent in fairly modern times of economies being suspended for the common good is WW2. I'm not a fan of war analogies, but that is all we've got to go on.
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As I say war analogies aren't ideal. The objectives and implementation were different. But it is an example of how the economic model can be put on hold, and the public actually come together to work for the common good.
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Most of the technology we take for granted, arose out of WW2. Jets, electronic computers, antibiotics, radar, sonar, even rockets etc, if you count the German side. Many had origins before, but they were never put into full scale use, until necessity produced them.
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Jan 22
@DoctorVive has hit the nail on the head, because it is essential all of us understand this. The present system, which arose out of the industrial revolution, which was designed on purpose, was a profound mistake, based on entirely false assumptions about our world.
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Any full acknowledgement of the climate and ecological emergency, not just the science, but how the system, which caused it started, is profoundly subversive. It totally undermines the powerful and wealthy who rule over us. It says that full system change is essential.
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The present system, which as I say, arose out of the industrial revolution, is entirely based on one false assumption - eternal economic growth.

You cannot have eternal growth on a finite planet. But the false assumption is you can!
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Jan 21
I'd like to use this point to illustrate why the claim that all people are responsible for the climate and ecological emergency, through their consumption, behaviour and the governments they elect, is a monstrous false argument and misrepresentation of the facts.
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As rightly noted, those without a sympathetic employer (and most aren't) or wealth i.e. most of the population, have to keep in the rat race driving the crisis, just to keep their heads above water. This includes voting for a government most likely to keep them in work.
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This is not just about time off to protest. It's about the ability to make alterations to your lifestyle, or the government you vote for, because most are just trying to keep their head above water.
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Jan 20
Once more I ask why aren't Boris Johnson and others being investigation for perverting the course of justice by the @metpoliceuk, for lying about these social gatherings in Downing Street?
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Former cabinet minister Chris Huhne was convicted of perverting the course of justice, and given an 8 month prison sentence for simply lying to avoid a speeding ticket, and getting his then wife to say she was driving at the time, 10 years earlier.
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 independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…
This proves no matter how trivial the original offence is, if you lie to avoid conviction you are guilty of perverting the course of justice, which carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, and nearly always results in a prison sentence.
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