Damian Phipps

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced ~ James Baldwin.

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@SCoastSteve @Feargal_Sharkey Just over 2% of shares on average are directly owned by pension funds, and 6% indirectly.

The wealthiest 20% of households also own 49% of pension wealth, and the wealthiest 1% own 39% of all shares.

So, ‘we all’ didn’t get richer, at least not really.

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@SeanMagee @OwenJones84 The economy is worth almost £3 trillion, Sean, and we sent £2.3 billion to Ukraine just last year.

This is projected to cost £1.3 billion and there is clear evidence that malnutrition is incredibly damaging to young people, not to mention costly in the long run.

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@BeaumontDMD @ChrisGPackham You don’t think that putting hundreds of millions of years of sequestered CO2 - a powerful greenhouse gas - in to the atmosphere in just a few hundred years will have any impact?

We’ve gone from 280ppm before the Industrial Revolution to roughly 420ppm today.

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@Lookinupatstars @a_soft_cushion @Haggis_UK There’s a massive difference between arguing that something often works, and that we should be generally supportive of those who engage in it.

Which are you suggesting here? If it’s the former, fine, but no expert would agree that political lying should just be accepted.

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@TGingerlad @KwajoHousing That presupposes that they’re trying to persuade the wider public in the first instance. But is that even how persuasion works?

Climate activists have literally tried everything to have it taken as seriously in media as it deserves to be and nothing - until now - has worked.

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@jwb233 @IamHappyToast @Weaves14 @sumarumi Economists told Osbourne and Cameron that austerity was not only economically illiterate, but that it would also overwhelmingly impact the poorest and most vulnerable, causing untold suffering.

In what world is that ‘trying to help’? Help who?

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@TheOmniLiberal Jesus Christ, the responses to this! There are no circumstances in which those demands are ok.

I don’t care what the guys reasons are, he needs to understand that it’s completely unacceptable.

And those who think that it’s reasonable need to spend a lot of time on themselves.

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@benonwine Could you be any more dramatic? It was confetti.

George Osbourne ruined hundreds of thousands of lives, permanently.

And you people call the left snowflakes!

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@KonstantinKisin Those who argue that we’re more concerned with respectability than justice in this country are absolutely correct.

You can be responsible for anything, as long as it’s not viewed as uncouth.

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@shellenberger George Osbourne is arguably responsible for around 100,000 deaths, which is a little more serious than throwing confetti at his wedding.

But your mileage may vary, of course.

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@Heath19Joanne @ClaireAKing @CarlCashman This is one of the most nature deprived countries on earth, largely because there are so few places for nature to thrive.

What you think it looks like is honestly neither here nor there.

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@BigThickSlices @speirs_willie @ChrisGPackham @CarlCashman @LiverLibDems If his constituents wanted to carpet bomb refugees crossing the channel in boats, would you be equally supportive?

Cutting grass verges is a demonstrably stupid and destructive idea. He should explain that to his constituents. That’s the job of an elected representative.

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@DanielJetsSkis @ruxide @_JoMarney We’re currently on course for a pretty terrifying future. People have tried everything that they can think of. If anyone has got better ideas, by all means lead the way.

I’m just not sure what telling people that they ‘actively harm the cause’ achieves in those circumstances?

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@JamesSpiro @JustStop_Oil @George_Osborne I like them, you massive fanny.

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@PeakSanti @Hashim84341501 Like there isn’t enough hate and misinformation in the world already.

Have you considered being a positive influence?

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@misspaulalondon @DeeNose @TalkTV @Iromg Given that only a tiny percentage engage in criminality, you’re effectively advocating that we spend several million pound to prevent each criminal offence, no matter its seriousness.

That makes even less sense than what concrete man said, and he’s an idiot.

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@Con_Tomlinson @VitoComedy @peterboghossian ‘It’s not homophobia’, but…’only heterosexual couples should adopt.’

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@petemorristwit I live near Liverpool and for two weeks the temperatures were consistently 25°C and above.

If 28°C in June is your idea of pleasant, including remaining above 20°C at night, then I don’t know what country you have been living in, but it certainly isn’t this one.

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@KonstantinKisin @AyoCaesar You could only possibly pretend to believe otherwise if you were trying to create room to deny actual racism, even when it is explained to you clearly why it is racism.

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@jordanbpeterson Who knew that you were an expert in so many fields? It’s almost unbelievable!