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Jul 21 • 5 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Catastrophic response from Starmer. He is literally handing the Tories their GE election lifeline on a golden platter while casting doubt on the kind of measures we need to save our planet (and hence us). Expect more of this: climate emergency responses have become the new … 🧵
… focus of far right and right-wing populists which means others will seek to pander to what they demand. The rise of the AfD in Germany can partly be attributed to this, but instead of standing up to that, the CDU keeps drawing on the same anti-climate populism to try …
… and gain votes—tragically, successfully so, eg in Berlin. Germany should be a big warning to us all on this. If the power of this populism is so significant that it can normalise the far right, incl Holocaust deniers etc, to this extent there, I have little hope for …
… other places. The thing is of course that this is an extremely vicious—potentially life-destroying—cycle: the longer some politicians do this, the more extreme measures will eventually have to be taken to save the one planet we have. /end
PS: @IanDunt’s points here + the following tweets are the critical point:

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Jul 7
The removal of these cartoon murals may seem trivial to some, but it really isn’t. It constitutes another—and in my view very significant given this relates to children—escalation in the complete dehumanisation of refugees. Shameful but also dangerous. 1/3 theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/j…
But there’s a bigger picture issue too: this continues the opening of what truly is Pandora’s box: the dehumanisation of vulnerable groups is only ever the beginning. Someone else will always be next. And then there are of course the basic questions of compassion and humanity.2/3
How anyone can choose to do this sort of thing to children is beyond my comprehension. No removed mural will stop boats. The only thing that can are safe and legal routes. Which is also the one thing this Govt keeps choosing to prevent. 3/3
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Jun 10
When Boris Johnson indicated in June last year that he’d step down as Prime Minister I wrote a thread on why I think we can already say that he is the worst PM the UK has ever had. That thread is even more fitting today. pingthread.com/thread/1533789…
The way in which he stepped down yesterday is entirely in keeping with who he is. He is still serving himself and himself only. The only question remains the same I posed last time: whether this ends today, or whether he will wreak even more havoc. I think it will be the latter.
The best we can hope for—obviously apart from the hope for a change of Govt next year at the very latest—is that he will split the Conservatives in the process. If he chooses to run at the next GE as an independent / new party of ‘patriotic Conservatives’, he might just do that.
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May 26
There are four basic facts:

1) Migration is life.

2) The UK needs immigrants; it needs more, of us, in fact.

3) Immigrants contribute more than they take out.*

4) Immigration is not the root cause of any of the UK’s problems—it’s part of the solution to them.

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Until the point at which politicians recognise those basic facts, they will:

- Forever provide the wrong ‘solution’ to what is a non-problem.

- Not address what really are the problems (underfunding; structural neglect of regions; Brexit etc).

- Fuel xenophobia and hate.
That is how simple this is.

And yet: Labour and Tories — ultimately, both continue to blow the dog whistle.

Prepare for more failure to address the UK’s actual problems.

It’s a vicious circle we’ve been stuck in for years. And unless we break it, things won’t really improve.
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May 16
79 years ago today, the Nazis began the main phase of extermination of Hungarian Jews. Three trains arrived in Auschwitz that day in 1944, with 9,000 deportees murdered in gas chambers.

79 years later, NatCon speaker Douglas Murray refers to Nazism as a ‘mucking up’. 🧵
Minimising the Holocaust in this way and conflating Nazism with feeling pride in one’s country—it is as ahistorical as it is shameful.

The *deliberate* Nazi policy of exterminating those deemed unworthy is not a ‘mucking up’.

It is genocide.
One that was carried out through the development of an industrial-scale and systematic machinery of mass murder.

In fact, 79 years ago at Auschwitz, that machinery wasn’t deemed systematic enough to achieve Hitler’s Final Solution.
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Apr 1
Wishing all actually verified accounts a happy blue de-ticking day … I won’t be paying for Twitter Blue, so might well disappear from feeds depending on what the algorithm does.
The old verified system was problematic in some ways, but what a mess M*sk is about to create. I, btw, never applied for a tick: I just got it one day. I suspect that this happened partly because I had pestered Twitter for a long time to verify more women—I had hoped this …
… might help with some of the problems women in particular face on this platform. This is another aspect where there might now be big impacts too. Ultimately, the bottom line is this:
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Mar 9
Dear journalists and other media,

Thanks for getting in touch with me about my thread, I appreciate it. But if you want to talk to me about that, you want to talk to the wrong person.

You need to talk to the UK Government.

When you do, I suggest you ask these questions: 🧵
❓Why are they still using the language they’re using even though we’ve already had an attempted bomb attack on a processing centre for people seeking sanctuary? telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/11/0…
❓Why are they still using the language they’re using even though we’ve already had a far right riot? independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…
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