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TheBossRoss 🇪🇺 🧶 ❄ 📷 💉💉💉

@BettinaSRoss1

Apr 3

🧵 Civilisation is fragile. Brexit, Trump, the pandemic, now the war. Are people really so easily rallied, manipulated, brutalised? It seems so. It seems hopeless. Until we realise that those who have lost their morality are still the minority.

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A minority that rules us, directly or indirectly, as leaders or loud opposition, assailing the very fabric of our society, aided & abetted by media outlets that shape (or rather: distort) people's view of the world, of what's right.

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There's a German word for it: Mitläufer. People who don't stop to think, but just follow, even if they're led into the gutter, even if (deep down) they know better. However many they seem, we are more.

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TheBossRoss 🇪🇺 🧶 ❄ 📷 💉💉💉

@BettinaSRoss1

Mar 27

🧵 Taking back control stems from that (very English) belief that all compromise is weak. On a national level this sustains FPTP (first-past-the-post) which leads to a parliament/government not truly representative of the people. On an international level, it led to #Brexit.

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A look at the world shows that (political) compromise is by no means ineffective or weak. It takes a broader view & into consideration the needs & interests of more, preventing extreme decisions. It fosters dialogue & cooperation, & produces moderate, sustainable decisions.

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It's a very persistent myth that cooperations & coalitions are incapable of making (quick) decisions. (A prejudice deliberately exploited & cemented every time the UK govt tries to make a point vis-a-vis the EU.) They're more effort, but do not necessarily take more time.

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TheBossRoss 🇪🇺 🧶 ❄ 📷 💉💉💉

@BettinaSRoss1

Mar 21

Looking at Priti Patel's upbringing, I see many (if not most) sources online say her parents fled Uganda ahead of (or due to) Idi Amin's expulsion of all Asian immigrants.

This does not seem to be accurate.

Let me explain:

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Ms Patel's father was born in Kampala, Uganda in 1951 to Indian parents. Migrants from Asia had been invited to Uganda & became the backbone of its economy.

Most sources say he left Uganda for Britain in the 1960s & married a Ugandan Asian.

Patel was born on 29 March 1972.

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Idi Amin became Uganda's president in 1971 following a military coup. He ordered the expulsion of all Asian immigrants in August 1972. They were given 90 days to pack up and leave. Many were British passport holders & 28,000 of them fled to the UK.

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