Proud earthling. Europhile hiking addict. Always anti-establishment. Can take or leave Marmite.
Dorset, England
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Usually polite and rational, but language occasionally frays around the edges in encounters with utter Brexiton or anti-masker numbskulls.
Oh, and by 'establishment', I mean the entrenched rich and powerful, not those, e.g. scientists, trying to make sense of a mad world.
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So that’s it. Who are the winners from this budget? Bankers, city fatcats, fossil fuel giants, the extremely wealthy. Who are the losers? Everyone else. And not one word about climate & nature protection, on which all wealth ultimately depends #Bankersbudget
What happens why you take a starting handle to a seized engine? Because that's what the desperate Tories are doing.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg himself has received money from fossil fuel investors
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Jacob Rees-Mogg says opposition to fracking in the UK is being funded by Putin.
In other news, the Conservative Party has received £5 million from Russian donors since 2012.
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UK billionaires increased their wealth by over £55 billion last year.
UK workers real wages are set to fall by almost 8% this year.
Wealth doesn’t trickle down, it’s hoovered up.
Entirely unsurprising that the violent, intolerant yobs are emboldened by a government that panders to them.
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With spending power already reduced by energy bills, higher interest rates welcome recession with open arms. Is there someone the UK can turn to offering a remedy for self-harm?
Great to see England players taking the knee and standing up for human rights even as their government moves inexorably in the opposite, darker direction.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg is accusing other people of being Luddites. Satire is dead.
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Wow. This is absolutely superb from @Ed_Miliband
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Jacob Rees Mogg was obviously dozing when renewables became *9 times cheaper* than gas - why on earth is he so desperate to lock business into further dependence on costly, climate-wrecking fossil fuels? He needs to wake up & offer support for energy efficiency & decarbonisation
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James O'Brien exposes the 'almighty lie' behind trickle-down economics.
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Mikey baby, I think you should have a word with Dim Lizzie.
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Looks to me like the Tory's don't want Parliament anymore, they just to want to announce what they have done! You know like North Korea and countries without a democratic government!
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Germany nationalises one of its gas companies Uniper, which owns seven power plants in uk. Uk Consumer pays for that power, profits go to German Government? Uk gov happy to use our tax to help pay for power but not cap profits. Madness #c4news
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If you cannot be open and transparent about the economy, you cannot be trusted to run it.
It's as simple as that.
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