@paddydocherty's Threads
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]
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😠✊🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺 #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]
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😠✊ #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
