WHY are British so complacent about democracy?
BECAUSE - unlike more or less every other country in Europe - they have not been a Fascist or Communist dictatorship, invaded, occupied or a colony IN LAST 100 YEARS
Democracy is not normal - it was fought for & needs fighting for
For past three years, Jeremy Corbyn has tried to represent not the 48% and not the 52% but the 100%. It has been difficult but he tried in good faith
Now he is trying TO STOP NO DEAL Brexit
This is NOT a game
Please unite with him to stop no deal
It is essential for us all
What is really going on is Corbyn’s opponents are trying to paint him as somehow *illegitimate* as PM
It is profoundly antidemocratic
It is also very dangerous
If he is voted down, very likely all others will be too
We’d then get No Deal (slow hand clap @thomasbrake et al)
The interests of wealthy landowners should not come before the need to tackle the climate emergency.
The government must urgently review grouse shooting to protect our natural environment. https://t.co/YFkihOi3fi
A HUGE story right now is how Johnson is selling out the UK to Trump
Johnson is desperate. Trump is predatory. (Murdoch is involved).
This story will not lead a BBC bulletin or be on a newspaper front page any time soon, as our MSM is not fit for purpose.
This is shameful exploitation by Asda, and shows that we must strengthen employment rights to redistribute power from bosses to workers.
Asda should get round the table with the GMB union and listen to the hardworking staff who make the business a success.
I'm sceptical of this poll, however convincing people that we don't need parliamentary democracy any more and that authoritarian leaders should be able to do what they like was always someone's plan, anyone delighting in this without realising that is what this is, is an idiot.
Piers? Are you ok? Did you hear it when @BorisJohnson said investigating historical sexual abuse was like ‘spaffing money up the wall’? What about those victims? He’s also consistently voted for the austerity which took 20,000 police off the streets. Get real. 🙄
If we had a functioning MSM and BBC they would be pressing Javid and the rest of the uberwealthy about their taxcheating: if it is not illegal, it’s immoral
BUT of course our brave journalists won’t go anywhere near it
It would be an outrageous, anti-democratic abuse of power for Boris Johnson - elected as Prime Minister by fewer than 100,000 unrepresentative Tory members - to force through No Deal in the middle of a General Election campaign.
My letter to Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill:
.@BBCNews#DoYourJob & report *properly* on
1 Johnson links with Bannon
2 Why Patel was sacked
3 Why Williamson was sacked
4 Cummings behaviour
5 Westley links
6 Truth about poverty
7 Truth about treatment of disabled people
8 Truth about UK, Saudi & Yemen
9 Truth about No Deal