😢 The tragedy of Britain has never been a lack of wealth or resources. We’ve had coal, steel, oil and gas, fertile farmland, world-class universities, scientific innovation and now some of Europe’s best renewable energy potential. There has always been more than enough to build a prosperous, secure society.
The problem has never been scarcity. It’s that too much of that wealth has flowed upwards instead of being shared more broadly.
Today’s divisions aren’t inevitable. They are the result of political and economic choices. Britain isn’t poor bc it had nothing to give. Britain is struggling because, too often, a small minority has captured the rewards while asking everyone else to accept less.
That’s the real tragedy of modern Britain: there has always been enough to share, but not enough willingness among those with the greatest power and wealth to do so.
@labourlewis@andyburnham
NEW: A convicted money launderer has operated at the highest level of UK politics for a decade. Why? Because Farage has enjoyed almost total impunity from the UK press.
In my new piece for @thenerve_news, I expose the decade of denial that’s enabled him to act with impunity
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Foreign states continue to destabilise our politics & elections. But Britain still in denial. Johnson blocked both Russia report & inquiry as did Starmer. Will @andyburnham finally take action? Or continue to fight hybrid warfare with political rhetoric (& Twitter statements)?
73 million birds gone. England's dawn chorus silenced.
Our national inheritance squandered. Our daily lives impoverished.
This is where "greed is good" leads.
Time to face the truth: A society endlessly exponentially consuming more and more isn't just a con; it's a death cult.