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Mar 4 10 tweets 3 min read Read on X
A huge thanks to @ZackPolanski and the rest of the @TheGreenParty for restoring sanity and humanity, to British politics, and ignoring the received wisdom, that no politician or party can say positive things, or it is political suicide.
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As we can see now, and @ZackPolanski has exposed Keir Starmer for the fraud he is, in claiming that his nasty authoritarian, anti-people policy, was a political necessity. No it was a choice of Starmer, and the regressive forces he represents.
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@ZackPolanski has done a marvellous job in interviews on mainstream TV of being level-headed, in answering the attempts to trip him up, in an intelligent and persuasive way. I think the attacks and smears are backfiring, because people do not see what they are being told.
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It raises huge questions about the uni-parties, and their neoliberal doctrine, over the last 45 years, and Reform is another one of them, not an alternative as it falsely claims. The neoliberal uni-parties have worked hand in glove, with the mainstream media, to gaslight people.
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The media have gaslighted people into believing that neoliberal doctrine and austerity, low taxes on the very rich, was a necessity, and there was no other way. That only economic growth mattered, and addressing the climate and ecological emergency, was a costly burden.
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No, uni-party neoliberalism, was the choice of the very rich, to make themselves even richer, at the cost of everyone else. In the last several decades, there has been a skyrocketing divide between the rich and ordinary people.

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This is not left wing ideology, because the only way we can survive the challenges of the climate and ecological emergency, which threatens our societies with catastrophe in the near future, a far more equal distribution of wealth.

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By far the biggest carbon emissions in the world, are from the top 1%, who use their growing wealth and power, to subvert our governments and political establishment, to work in their favour, against the public interest.

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The very rich, are literally killing us, and they must be taxed far more to limit their power, and to stop the clique of the very rich, in subverting our political system, in favour of the very rich. Reform are a fake grass roots party, funded by the very rich.
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Mar 1
I am hoping @ChrisGPackham will understand this as a naturalist, and he has some understanding of ecology and biodiversity, because my important points about this assessment are being ignored.

My central point is these redacted parts are of little use to us.
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I completely agree with @GreenRupertRead that these parts should never have been redacted. However, the idea that the full unredacted report, would help us better understand these threats, is profoundly mistaken, and the ITN report is misleading.
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I have been making the same warnings for decades, and they were actually based on the same science and references, as this assessment used.

My point, is we don't know enough about the way our human systems rely on natural systems, to confidently make such projections.
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Read 21 tweets
Mar 1
I will have to make a subsidiary thread, because the general knowledge of biodiversity and ecology is so poor, that the vast majority of people don't realize I am making profound, expert points.
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I'll start with my point about species. Most are not familiar with this, as they have zero education about it, so they probably think I'm just trying to be controversial. There is no single definition of a species, and all break down at some point.

2/nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-…
"There’s no exact figure for how many species live on Earth. As of 2024, more than 2.1 million species have been scientifically described and named, but this is likely to be nowhere near the true number living on the planet."

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Read 7 tweets
Mar 1
I want to explain, why hardly anyone understands what biodiversity is.

1) The number of species on Earth, is completely unknown. Their ecological interactions, even more unknown.

2) There is no satisfactory definition of what a species is.
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In other words, it is almost impossible for a layperson to understand biodiversity intellectually, when they have fundamental misconceptions about the core concepts of biodiversity. Ecology, the interactions of these species, is even less understood.
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What is known about the most complex field of knowledge known to humanity, is a tiny fraction of what could be known, and most of it is probably unknowable on a level of complexity, impossible for us to comprehend.
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Read 21 tweets
Mar 1
A long time ago, and repeatedly over many decades, I said if @TheGreenParty had an electoral breakthrough, the establishment, the media and political mainstream, would viciously turn on them. It was not hard to foresee, when you know the tawdry reality of the establishment.
1/3
The established order, isn't a group of people working together for the public good and the country. It is a tawdry, corrupt, powerful and wealth clique, in which the powerful and rich, cooperate to make themselves even richer and more powerful, at the cost of everyone else.
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The first and most important rule of Rich and Power Club is that it exists only to further the aims of those in this clique. The second rule is that it doesn't exist, and the third is, if anyone breaks ranks or threatens the aims of this clique, then they must be crushed.
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Feb 27
"Keir Starmer has probably made his standing in the Labour party worse with the response to the byelection defeat he gave in a short broadcast interview this morning."

Let's talk about Keir Starmer, and what he is and who he really represents.

1/🧵theguardian.com/politics/live/…
It is very clear that Keir Starmer is utterly disingenuous, and what he falsely claims he stands for, is not what he is really about, at all. Whilst Starmer is acting very stupidly, he cannot be as stupid, as he makes out.

Nothing you see about Starmer is genuine or real.
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I will qualify what I say, by pointing to the most salient features of his disingenuity first. Starmer claims to be acting in the interests of Labour, clearly he isn't, he's utterly destroying the Labour Party, and aiding Reform.
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Read 22 tweets
Feb 27
I should make it clear that I wasn't justifying family or coercive voting.

1) I was questioning the degree of certainty, that this is what had taken place.

2) How and why Democracy Volunteers and Lord Hayward, had gone to the press, immediately after polls had closed.
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You'd have thought if this illegal behaviour, had been certainly observed, the volunteers would have alerted election officials at the time to what was happening.

Second, more care and time would have been taken to collate these observations, before contacting the media.
2/11
On the face of it, it seems odd that no attempt was made to report this to election officials as it was happening, and why it was immediately reported to the press as soon as the polls closed, when there were 22 polling stations.
3/11
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