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10 days ago

Identity politics and neoliberal capitalism go hand-in-hand 🤝 Here’s why, as a socialist, I disagree with divisive identity politics 🌹

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13 days ago

Good riddance What an absolute disaster you have been The signs were there in Covid, when - far from questioning extreme measures - you were all-in on screaming for more, even demanding *another* lockdown and talking of using emergency legislation to “deal with” campaigns youdidn’t like Since gaining power with less than 20% of the electorate voting for him, you could barely have been worse. Just for starters:   - Digital ID - never in manifesto, 3m signed petition against - must now be SCRAPPED - Facial recognition rolled out with almost zero public debate - “Social media ban” - AKA ID checks for all - and seemingly some kind of VPN restrictions too, more akin to China or Russia - Even in the last few days, pushing forward a plan to force-feed us content from state broadcaster the BBC - Protest restrictions expanded further - peaceful demonstrations can now be curtailed simply for being “too disruptive”, undermining a fundamental democratic freedom - Betraying small family farmers on IHT after promising no changes pre-election; family businesses are far less talked about but they are affected too - Full steam ahead on crazy Net Zero, with bills going through the roof - again despite his explicit election promise they’d “drop £300 under a Labour govt” - Arbitrary banning of artists and speakers from the UK - Fostering huge division by insulting huge swathes of the public who have reasonable concerns about immigration, with “far right” smears bandied around Whoever comes in next, the only way we will get to a better and freer future is by working #together Through the efforts of many we have managed to get partial climbdowns and improvements on some of these things - but its a horrible list We need a Digital Bill of Rights as a bulwark against people like Starmer. But not just Starmer - against a whole technocratic class who see the public as a problem to be managed, and whose increasingly dystopian surveillance “solutions” are well advanced and backed by big money Join us, support us, and let’s keep pushing back #together - because the challenges we face are far bigger than this one man, however dreadful and damaging he may have been

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