5. Sustaining the most extreme anti-protest measures in any allegedly-democratic country. You could even start to believe that Labour finds it convenient to criminalise protest and send peaceful dissenters to jail for years.
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These anti-protest measures will not be used today against farmers blocking roads in London with polluting farm machinery which shouldn't be anywhere near any ULEZ.
Tractor protests are 100% legit. @juststopoil.bsky.social should run a protest where activists encase themselves in cardboard mock-tractors and block roads just like actual farmers did. I'm sure that'll be fine then. #ClimateCrisis. #JustStopOil.
This one is truly mind boggling. Just rescind the cruel anti protest legislation that the Tories put in. The fact that labour is continuing with laws put in place by Suella Braverman is indefensible
THIS is no.1 on the list for me on why I feel alienated from the Labour Party. I'm considered an extremist by Starmer-The one thing I thought I could do was take part in NVDA in this #climatecrisis I've been arrested but I hesitate to do it again under these laws
I'm defeated. Deflated. Desperate
The increasing criminalisation of peaceful protest and the severity of sentencing will yield a terrible harvest for Labour if/when they eventually rediscover the need for creative and brave activists to stand up to the fascists.
I think you mean "respect the fascists' legitimate concerns, as democratically expressed at the ballot box, just as they legitimately, concernedly and democratically did in 1936." 😢
If they discussed the arrangements through online chats, they'd better pack a bag for prison. Oh, wait. That's only for people calling for action on climate change, I forgot. Aren't farmers also impacted by a changing climate? Where is there concern on that?
6. Taunting, insulting and abusing anyone who cares about life on Earth and a habitable planet, while ripping up environmental commitments and accelerating destruction. This includes a. airport expansion; b. new trunk roads; c. attacks on the planning system; d. more river-killing chicken factories;
On a similar vein, one pond where I fish is next to a motorway. The wash off containing salt runs into the pond. Lots of fish with burn marks. Bastards 😎🎣🎣🎣
7. e. freeports; f. constant briefing that it wants to approve the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil fields; g. packaging a new fossil fuel project, that will greatly increase emissions, as a “carbon capture and storage” programme, to be built at vast public expense.
How much carbon goes into building a carbon capture storage facility?? Sounds like a scam to me. Just like planting trees so you can keep pumping out CO2 in industrial quantities. Of course you tax incentives to plant trees. Keep up the great post Mr Monbiot. I am a fan 👏👏👏
CCS has never been rolled out at scale because it’s too bloody expensive in its energy consumption. I wish everyone would just dismiss this fairy tale.
8. Waging war on what remains of our public protections: you know, all that horrid “red tape” that might have stopped people being torched in tower blocks, rivers being poisoned by sewage, customers getting ripped off, financial systems collapsing …
10. Dismissing any prospect of rejoining the Single Market or Customs Union, despite widespread public demand and Bregret, and the urgent need to form strong global alliances in the face of Trump, Putin and many other threats.
I think they're appeasing the RW media at the expense of the whole country. They are not acting like a true Labour govt should. I'm a Lib Dem. Labour are too RW for me.
You've heard the old adage George, " never interrupt an enemy when they are making mistakes" as a Scot he is doing us all a favour, independence polling is rising, Napoleon knew what he was talking about. Saor Alba 🏴 🏴
Absolutely correct review of a misguided, idiotic, cruel, bigoted right wing party. Vacuous Starmer & his empty headed nodding donkeys are beyond redemption. Their evil mastermind & controller McSweeney will certainly get paid very well by Paul Marshall and the rest of the global fascist network.
They are to slow over pushing renewables such as onshore wind. Process is to slow with no help to expedite process, no interest fee loans or systems in place to borrow money. not one wind turbine has been installed since ban was lifted.
So they keep lurching right every time an opinion poll says Reform is on the up and then they lose more support. At what point do you realise that this tactic isn’t working and people actually want a worker and climate friendly Government that is pro-EU and anti-billionaire?
Stitch up Starmer, Wretched Reeves, evil Eagle were never trustworthy. They used folks to get to power. Now those folks are of no use to them. Safe in the Westminster bubble.
A traitor to the left.
A traitor to Labour.
A traitor to citizens.
All of your thread is true but is no different to what I was warning people about before the election. But still 20% of the electorate were happy enough with this bastardisation of the Labour Party and that was enough
George, please would you give this a push?
1 personal endorsement from someone, such as yourself, is worth 000s of posts from someone like me - especially now people are deleting Twitter and Facebook it's going to be difficult getting petitions signed 🙏
11. Adopting Reform’s messages, Reform’s branding and Reform’s cruelty, to compete over who can most brutally beat up asylum seekers. Because competing with the far right always works out so well for centrist parties, doesn’t it? Forgive my French (and German, Italian, Swedish etc) but FFS!
Totally agree with you George. We spent 14 years with a corrupt disastrous Tory government. We all worked hard to get a Labour Government elected now we want the CHANGE if it does not start soon than no more support. So depressing that a large majority is not being used for CHANGE.
It's a shame starmer wasn't held to account at the very start when he lied to win the leadership. The press were more than happy to have a right winger in position to replace the Tory clowns.
I never subscribed to the “two cheeks of the same arse” argument before. Seeing it now. Blue or red, nothing substantial changes. Wealth is all that matters.
Fully agree.
It seems like Labour haven’t thought deeply about anything even though they had at four years to prepare for power.
I wrote them off the minute Reeves continued the freeze of Fuel Duty.
Such a waste.
Add refusing to recognise that an unequivocal commitment to renewable industries, retrofitting our energy inefficient housing and to building resilience across our ecosystems would create more growth than any other commitment. Growth through efficiency and low impact rather than planetary abuse.
Bang on the money, I worked on Labour's 2015 GE campaign, it was no different then. Labour tried to outdo the Tories on austerity. The voters wanted a Labour Party that fights for the underdog & joins with others against imperialism & wars.
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Oh dear oh dear oh dear
This deadly refrain
the bane
Of humanity
Again again.
So could we leap
From ego to eco
head to heart
Reframe
Reclaim
Whole system
Honouring
Resilience
Resurgence.
Could We?
That'squite a roadblock 🤔
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cwypj14q122o
I'm defeated. Deflated. Desperate
This thread…
https://bsky.app/profile/theferocity.bsky.social/post/3lhjku4gpek2l
I think you mean "respect the fascists' legitimate concerns, as democratically expressed at the ballot box, just as they legitimately, concernedly and democratically did in 1936." 😢
Change. 🫤
I'll be rich someday, Ma,
Look what they've done to my Song.."
#Melanie
https://youtu.be/r44Ach4mXE4?si=UQs03Hpnj-WFBD_A
https://youtu.be/nJslrTT-Yhc?si=fDWc2LM2mkqHszhm
Very cowardly. #Allyship
A traitor to the left.
A traitor to Labour.
A traitor to citizens.
Now we have a "Labour" Govt. following the right wing play book and bereft of true principles.
Are we still expected to wait for Godot in the hope that things will get better? Or put up with Right-wing Govt Mark III?
The mental gymnastics needed by you to think they could do that and it would be right to do so is insane
Great way to hand No 10 to Farage mate
1 personal endorsement from someone, such as yourself, is worth 000s of posts from someone like me - especially now people are deleting Twitter and Facebook it's going to be difficult getting petitions signed 🙏
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700005
I feel duped, and badly let down by Labour.
It seems like Labour haven’t thought deeply about anything even though they had at four years to prepare for power.
I wrote them off the minute Reeves continued the freeze of Fuel Duty.
Such a waste.
I've seen agar-agar platters with impressive growth of those, from samples taken off of domesticated birds and their feces.