We should never underestimate the extent to which the BBC changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage, other far right extremists and the Tufton Street junktanks, while shutting out progressive voices. 🧵
Rishi Sunak again refuses to rule out joining Russia & Belarus as the only European countries outside the ECHR
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says he would leave the ECHR within 100 days
If UK news shows won’t point this out I’ll happily come back & do it every day if I have too. The ECHR protects
• the right to a fair trial
• freedom of assembly & expression
• the right to participate in free elections
• freedom of religion
• freedom from discrimination
• the right to privacy
• freedom from torture & degrading treatment
and as for the argument we can just leave & create our own bill of rights that presupposes you can actually trust the government with your human rights in the first place. Does anyone seriously trust these two individuals with their human rights?
BREAKING: CNN just released their fact check of Donald Trump throughout the debate. It turns out Donald Trump lied on just about every answer. Retweet so all Americans see this vital fact check on Trump’s BS.
Each year I feel a duty to remind people of the massacre of 3/4 June 1989 around Tiananmen Sq. And each year I get assailed by bots and others, doing the job of Chinese Communist Party propaganda, who claim it didn’t happen or was all a US-plot. Sorry: it did, and it wasn’t.