Paul Downton

Architect, author, urban evolutionary, climate modifier. I am not a brand, I am a free man! 311=CO2 ppm when I was born.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

I dare anyone to watch this & not ask themselves how we ever allowed this criminally incompetent & negligent Government anywhere near office

[BBC Somerset @bbcsomerset]

Glastonbury Tor goes 🔴

@MillfieldSenior student Sam decided to #LightItInRed as part of the Red Alert campaign https://t.co/KA1Og5xxLP

Thanks to @casling78 for the picture 📸

[Stephen Barlow @SteB777]

@GeorgeMonbiot My apologies, Orwell had the foresight to say refugees. Immigrants is how the Tories refer to them. Here is the passage I referred to. It must be well over 30 years since I last read 1984, but this passage is seared into my mind.
https://t.co/DjEs070ojL

[Stephen Barlow @SteB777]

@GeorgeMonbiot I seem to remember in Orwell's "1984", Winston Smith going to the cinema to see the proles being entertained by footage of immigrants being machine gunned in boats. I've always said the modern Tories seem to see 1984 as a political how to do it manual, than a warning.

[Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @BellRibeiroAddy]

We have a legal & moral responsibility to refugees fleeing famine, war and violence. They are not the problem. The problem is the dangerous routes they must take.

We should be looking at safe and legal routes, not intimidating them with Navy ships. https://t.co/6vEBDaYSxx

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

People fleeing war, famine and persecution shouldn't be confronted by gunships and hostility, but instead offered safe, legal routes to asylum.

Our common humanity demands nothing less.

[Paul Downton @PFD311]

It’s the same language that has been used in Australia for years. The right-wing politicians and media love it because, sadly, people fall for it. ‘Truth ‘? What’s that!?

[Maya Goodfellow @MayaGoodfellow]

Would be good if everyone, including media outlets, could stop using the term "illegal immigrants". Deeply dehumanising. Implicitly reinforces anti-immigration politics. People can't be illegal.

[Victoria Fielding @DrVicFielding]

A man broke out of Sydney hotel quarantine and caught train to Newcastle. I’m not going to blame Gladys Berejiklian for this breach - clearly it wasn’t her fault personally. I’m sure the media won’t blame her, nor call the entire NSW hotel quarantine system a failure. Because NSW

[Julian Burnside @JulianBurnside]

#QandA Dan Andrews has done a great job...and I don’t even vote Labor

[Denise C. @SpudBenBean]

I just want to punch the VIC media in their collective face.

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

The majority of Australia’s media crossed a very big line today.

They’re now fully complicit in future non-compliance of Victorians, since they’re actively gunning for @DanielAndrewsMP to look incompetent when he needs to be understood to save lives.

We’ll never forget this.

[The Chaser @chaser]

Please stop complimenting us for the Jonathan Swan interview. That wasn't one of our comedy pieces, America is really just like that.

[Stephen Donnelly @StiofanDonnelly]

Tomorrow, Premier Dan Andrews will give his 34th press conference in a row. That’s 34 days straight.
Let that sink in.
No Tory leader would ever bother to provide relentless, open & direct dialogue to our community seeking support & hope.
You want leadership? This is leadership.

[Ash @AshPolitik]

BREAKING!!!!!

STAGE 5 will be enacted in days, the complete shutdown of

NEWS CORP
Nine Entertainment Co
Macquarie Media Limited
7 NETWORK
SKY NEWS AUSTRALIA

This is for the health and benefit of all society

#COVID19Vic #COVID19au

[Brenda Caesar @Brenda1132]

Dan Andrews nearly 90 minutes into presser and still answering every QUESTION. Meanwhile our PM takes the weekend off. #IStandWithDan

[Ray Martin @Raymartin55]

Anderws stayed til the questioners were spent. They literally ran out of questions. He answered every one.

Accountable.

Present.

[Kos Samaras @KosSamaras]

Dear (some) Victorians. Dictatorship is not an experience. It’s not a rule that requires you to stay home and bake bread. A dictatorship means a gun to the head, your friends go missing, your loved ones disappear and you panic buy a one way ticket to another country. Ask my mum.

[Paul Downton @PFD311]

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