Currently attending a lecture at #UEA by @NorwichChloe. Hoping the students will do a good job with their questions.
Lots of compliments for UEA. Now getting onto work and employment. Keeps thinking that everyone should be helping to grow our economy. Still thinks our problem is people being on benefits not working. But people need jobs to pay enough without benefits.
Sticking plaster on the problem of mental health. Yes sure, add more mental health support? Let's see it. But has Chloe thought about the reason why we have an epidemic of mental health issues keeping people off work? Mental health suffers from poverty, inequality, oppression.
She never mentions that long covid and Brexit are the self inflicted deprivation that leads people to the highest rate of vacancies and shortage of available workers. Long covid because of criminal mismanagement of the pandemic at every stage. #ToryBrexitDisaster
Now a question on her record on climate change. Blaming the algorithm of the sites that tell you the voting record. Silly stuff about being able to take people with you (meaning failing to take leadership and give expert competence as a confident government).
What does she think is the solution for net zero? Renewables? Yes essential of course. Faffing around with securing the energy supply trying to pretend that renewables aren't the easy answer.
She's right to say we need to think about what we use the energy for.
How about government advice on that? How about some insulation projects? She doesn't specify. Makes the usual snide comment about whether other countries are doing enough.
She's trying to say that she wants to force people to work, without saying it. Talk of enabling people to do what the capitalists need them to do (not quite in those terms).

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Oct 16
I wonder whether any Conservative politicians realise that the period of prosperity we experienced during the 20th century resulted not from exploitation and greed but from a workforce with access to excellent health care, free medicines, free school milk & orange juice for kids
And on free education through to 18 and free university with full maintenance grants to enable every intelligent student to get to the most prestigious institutions and collaboration with other scientists across Europe with generous funding for research
And workers' rights including the five day week that allowed families to enjoy leisure time and spend the fair earnings that gave them freedom and the chance to broaden horizons, instead of working 80 hours just to scrape together the cost of the next meal
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Aug 31
A list of some completely lunatic (and unfair) things that the UK govt has done so far in the cost of living crisis, that have made things 1000x worse. Feel free to add more.
1. When an energy distribution company fails due to the rising cost of fossil fuels, they transfer the customers to another private profit company and transfer the cost of the failed company's debts to the energy bills of other citizens, pushing up energy tariffs accordingly.
2. They bailed out Bulb to the tune of £2 billion from govt funds instead of turning it into a publicly owned company and using it as the solution for customers without a surviving for profit company.
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Jan 16
It's clear now, if it wasn't before, why the PM kept prefacing his covid lockdown briefings with apologies and grief for how reluctant he thought we'd be about the no socialising rules. How he said the behavioural advisers thought the British didn't accept rules like that.
He couldn't hear that we were all crying out for rules, complaining that he was acting weeks too late, that the gatherings needed to end long since, that the venues were already deserted and losing money, that no one wanted to party till the virus was under control.
Downing Street was out of touch, a culture where work is fitted between parties, if there's time. The rest of the country is able to buckle down when needs must and put the interests of the country first. Funny that. 🤔
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Dear Mr Johnson, what was needed to protect the integrity of the UK was for you to make sure you had a good withdrawal agreement that served that purpose before you agreed to it. M. Barnier spent a lot of time explaining to the UK negotiators what the issues were with NI.
Theresa May spent a lot of time trying to solve that, and to square the circle, so as to preserve a no border system. We said at the time, only you didn't listen, that your withdrawal agreement was rushed and unwise, and had an impossible internal border.
You could have seen this coming. Indeed unless you are utterly stupid, you did see this coming and you let it happen because you are unfit to be a statesman and you promise things you never intend to keep.
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Truly embarrassing misbehaviour in the European Parliament today from the thugs in the Brexit plc seats. A disgrace to our once respected country.
And now they are all totally absent for the award of the Sakharov Prize to human rights defender Ilham Tohti. How low can a human being sink?
The left of the house is full. The right is more than half empty. The Brexit plc seats are completely empty.
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Dear UK voters, I understand that 48% of you voted to say that you think that the job I have been doing on your behalf, since last May, is a complete waste of money...
the job I have been doing to improve the lives of animals across Europe, to defend human rights in other countries, to promote good practice in farming, fisheries, and energy, to support research opportunities and to improve transport across Europe—including this country...
You, the 48%, think that this job I have been doing is a complete waste of money. You think that it is enough to look after our own people and animals, and play no part in helping others to do the same.
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