@paddydocherty's Threads
In this #COVID19 crisis, some worry about having a eugenics nutjob like Cummings in charge... Before rubbishing this as alarmist, please consider Charles Trevelyan, the Treasury official placed in charge of relief during the Irish famine in the1840s. ⬇️😠✊🦠 #ToriesOut 🇪🇺🇮🇪 
We tend to assume that our government would *never* consciously do anything to damage its own people... Trevelyan, however, took the psychopathic view that the famine was divine intervention on the feckless poor... ⬇️ 😖✊🇪🇺🇮🇪 #history #famine #Ireland #capitalism
This was at a time when - even during the years of famine - Ireland was exporting around 300,000 tons of grain to England per annum. Fully *one million* Irish people are believed to have died due to the famine, and around two million emigrated. 😠✊🇪🇺🇮🇪 #resist #ToriesOut
A scary story in three acts, plus a coda.
Act 1 - “That’s ridiculous, they can’t be serious”
🤪 #resist #ToriesOut #StopTheCoup
@ExtinctionR #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🌳🐺
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Act 1 - “That’s ridiculous, they can’t be serious”
🤪 #resist #ToriesOut #StopTheCoup
@ExtinctionR #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🌳🐺
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Act 2 - “Oh cripes, I get it now...”
😦 #resist #ToriesOut #StopTheCoup #RuleOfLaw #LiarJohnson 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺
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😦 #resist #ToriesOut #StopTheCoup #RuleOfLaw #LiarJohnson 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺
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Act 3 - “Erm, guys... everyone can see where this is going, right..?!”
😳 #resist #ToriesOut #RuleOfLaw #StopTheCoup @GeorgeMonbiot 🇪🇺
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😳 #resist #ToriesOut #RuleOfLaw #StopTheCoup @GeorgeMonbiot 🇪🇺
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This is a hungover #BorisJohnson, then Foreign Secretary, staggering back to London after a party at a Russian billionaire’s castle in Italy, April 2018. He had abandoned his security detail and appeared still drunk. 😠 #ToriesOut #Corruption #ReleaseTheRussiaReport
Does anyone really think that this disgraceful, unprincipled boor *hasn’t* left a thick trail of #kompromat in his wake? He looks compromised to me... 😠 #ToriesOut #Corruption #Russia #ReleaseTheRussiaReport 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺
This is the Guardian article. Why did #BorisJohnson shed his security detail? What did he get up to that night? We know that MI6 don’t trust him - how compromised is he? 😠 #Corruption #ToriesOut #Russia #JohnsonMustGo
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Miller vs Odey: the Brexit crisis explained through the medium of fund managers, with a bonus survey… 🤓✊ (thread) #RuleOfLaw #StopTheCoup #StopBrexit 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺
Compare and contrast Gina Miller and Crispin Odey… Both are British fund managers, and both are wealthy, but their very different responses to Brexit are most illuminating. 🧐 #Brexit #StopBrexit 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺
Odey was born into a wealthy family of industrialists, and was educated at Harrow & Oxford. He set up Odey Asset Management in 1991, and it now has several billion pounds under management. He was briefly married to Rupert Murdoch’s daughter. His net worth is c£775m. #StopBrexit
MORALE BOOST There is quite a bit of Remain despair on my timeline today… Don’t be down: the cabal is on the ropes, and we’re winning this. (short thread) #RuleOfLaw #JohnsonMustGo #JohnsonOut 😠✊🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺
There is no room for complacency: we must focus and redouble the fight, but we’re now in the endgame of the disgraceful Johnson regime. They will try all the nasty tricks they can, but they are losing and they know it. #RuleOfLaw #JohnsonMustGo 🤓 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺
Consider: does a triumphant Prime Minister, in command of the agenda and masterfully executing his diabolical plans, have an angry meltdown in the voting lobby in Parliament..? 😃 #meltdown #JohnsonMustGo 🇪🇺
Quick thought on the short Yellowhammer doc just released. It is of course extremely alarming, and exposes the sheer madness of Brexit... I think we also need to remember... [cont]
😠✊🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺 #StopTheCoup #YellowHammer
😠✊🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺 #StopTheCoup #YellowHammer
...that this document will have been compiled by earnest and professional civil servants, striving to choose their words carefully and to be measured in their tone. That means that there could be a great deal of BATSHIT CRAZINESS contained in some of the assessments. [cont]
For example, “significant electricity price increases” - already alarming, but is “significant” 10%? 20%? For anyone on a modest income, even a 5% increase in an electricity bill might be unmanageable. [cont]
😠✊ #StopTheCoup 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺
😠✊ #StopTheCoup 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺
Calling all Conservatives... Lord Patten says this is no longer a Conservative government but is now English nationalist... You are therefore relieved of your obligations to support it...
😠✊🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺 #StopTheCoup #democracy
😠✊🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺 #StopTheCoup #democracy
Your party has suffered a hostile takeover by Leave psychopaths and ERG nutjobs. Are you really happy that the party of Peel, Disraeli, Salisbury and Churchill is now the party of Johnson, Francois and Iain Duncan “Colonel Bogey” Smith...? 😖 #StopTheCoup #democracy
Do you really wish to follow these intellectual minnows off the cliff edge of Brexit..? Destroy the country because it’s what Cummings and his mysterious backers want? 😠 #StopTheCoup #democracy 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺
Two crucial reasons why the anti-Johnson resistance will definitely win in the end, if we fight (short thread) 😠✊ #stopthecoup #RevokeA50 #stopboris 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺
1) The No Deal freaks are weak: the current attempt at suspending Parliament is an admission of failure – they do not have the parliamentary numbers to pass their keynote legislation. #stopboris #StopTheCoup #revokeA50 🇪🇺
Johnson is a lazy, ill-prepared chancer who is already completely out of his depth. Cummings is nothing like as clever as he likes to think - he’s winging it too. They’re unprincipled chancers, NOT strategic masterminds. 🤪 #resist
In these heightened times, many will be wondering whether it’s accurate/reasonable to call the appalling @Nigel_Farage a Fascist.... Is it reasonable to label him as such, or an unhelpful exaggeration...? #resist #fascism #brexit
To answer this important question, let’s consider how eminent scholar of the subject, Robert Paxton, defined fascism in his 2004 book, “Anatomy of Fascism”.... (@vintagebooks) #resist #fascism #brexit #farage
I’ve been researching female agency in anticolonial resistance and it’s an extremely interesting subject… I’ll be publishing on this in due course but can’t help sharing some pics here… (ongoing thread)
#anticolonial #resistance #femaleagency #empire
#anticolonial #resistance #femaleagency #empire
Firstly, Josina Muthemba Machel (1945-71), an important figure in the anticolonial struggle against the Portuguese in #Mozambique. #anticolonial #resistance #femaleagency #empire #machel #josinamachel
In 1964, at 18 yrs old, Josina Machel fled the country with the aim of joining the FRELIMO resistance movement in Tanzania, but was arrested and returned to Mozambique. She was imprisoned for five months.
#anticolonial #resistance #femaleagency #empire
#anticolonial #resistance #femaleagency #empire
