Tim Sheerman-Chase

Activist, scientist and (unpaid) philosopher. @[email protected]

[Tim Sheerman-Chase @GreenTimSC]

@LBarchart oops

[Tim Sheerman-Chase @GreenTimSC]

A classic #LibDemBarChart in #Portsmouth Firstly, reform have 8 councillors, not 2. Secondly, the number of Councillors is irrelevant. Thirdly, conservatives were in 3rd by number of votes. Fourthly, it's out of date data that doesn't factor in our Green campaign.
@libdembarchart

[Tim Sheerman-Chase @GreenTimSC]

Several UK cities have introduced a #CleanAirZone. Cities with a CAZ fared slightly better in the 2021-2023 period (11% drop ) than those without (5% drop, excluding Sheffield as data not available). #AirPollution #LetPompeyBreathe https://t.co/eUtrwVLmnZ

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Oh come on Labour - so depressing to hear Pat McFadden say UK has no plans for a youth mobility scheme with the EU. We have schemes with NZ, Australia, Canada, Japan, Iceland, Uruguay - only reason not to have one with EU is fear of right wing press. Such cowardice @bbclaurak

[PortsmouthCycleForum @PompeyBike]

The next cycle security marking session happens later this week 👇🏻

#ACityToShare

[Tim Sheerman-Chase @GreenTimSC]

#AssistedDying
Compassion and safety are the cornerstones of this Bill; bringing choice to those who want and need it as they die, but also introducing regulation and scrutiny where there is currently none. That benefits us all. https://t.co/AKZnVzsZAd

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

Right wingers stamping their feet saying

Call A General Election

Tell you what....

Let's have a Rejoin the EU referendum at the same time?

Six million people signed that petition

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

Once more, with feeling.
The BBC should not leave it to guests to reveal who funds the organisations the other guests work for. This is what its own editorial guidelines say.

[Politics For You @PoliticoForYou]

🚨 The cycle of democracy keeps turning.

[Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley]

It’s still possible to make people’s lives better, but not through tax cuts for the rich and investment incentives for big business.

Politicians have to stop talking about boosting ‘the economy’, and start talking about supporting the people who make the economy go round.

[GreenpeacePortsmouth @GP_Portsmouth]

Clean energy grid by 2030 is entirely possible and could lower electricity bills..

Britain’s green energy pledge ‘credible’ if planning fixed, says system operator https://t.co/4vwFVNP7dY

[Tom Scott 🇺🇦 @Tom___Scott]

79% of the UK public were opposed to water privatisation.

Margaret Thatcher ignored them & pushed on with it anyway. It's turned out even worse than many warned.

What's extraordinary is that a Labour government won't consider reversing it.
#MARCHFORCLEANWATER #floodthestreets

[Azam Jangravi | اعظم جنگروی @azijangravi]

1/When I protested against mandatory hijab, after the security forces arrested me, my family was pressured to declare me mentally ill, the Islamic republic of Iran even taking me to a forensic doctor. One of my relatives came to see me in prison and shared the situation.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point.

Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it.  It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this.

But these are all just symptoms.  The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned.

Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even *basic* steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future.

Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment.  At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development.

The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital.

And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism.  They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative.

So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.

[Portsmouth Trades Council @PortsTC]

#Remember Grenfell

[Jordan @JordanChariton]

Of course, the limousine liberals on Morning Joe are concluding Harris lost bc Dems went too "woke" & push "cancel culture." REALITY why she lost:

🚨75% voters said inflation had severe or moderate impact
🚨73% voters said dissatisfied or angry about way things are going

A 🧵

[Portsmouth Trades Council @PortsTC]

Oh ffs...the daily fail at it again with harmful disinformation
FYI, the "Covid era" wasn't sometime back in the distant past. It is NOW and continuing

[GreenpeacePortsmouth @GP_Portsmouth]

Footage from the March for Clean Water on Sunday! It speaks volumes of the state of a country when tens of thousands of people come to the capital to demand clean water.

The Tories first started this mess when they privatised the water companies over 30 years ago. Neoliberalism!

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

To all you Tories who pissed our money up the wall, handed it to pals and sent our debt spiralling…

I say on behalf of everyone with any sense

…SIT THIS ONE TF OUT.