Lily O'Flaherty

She/Her

[Emma Szewczak @EmmaSzewczak]

This has radicalised me and I think I'm going to kill someone

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

in retrospect, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords really might've been a better basis for a system of government.

[Lily O'Flaherty @lilyOFlaherty]

@C4Dispatches I’m in the UK and not using a VPN to switch between countries, but the video isn’t available to me on YouTube, says it’s not been made available in my country… Has the video been taken down from YouTube?

[Funk Butcher @FunkButcher]

Unpopular opinion but Sadiq Khan is one of the most prime ministerial voices the UK has had in years but you don’t like him because of congestion charge…. you also don’t drive a car.

[RONA @prrockaa]

we really cant talk, we literally picked boris johnson over jeremy corbyn

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

It's 2024.

We don't need a monarchy.

We certainly don't need a monarchy making money out of our struggling NHS.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Labour's decision to raise tuition fees is a disgrace.

Government ministers might not be in Parliament today had they not benefited from free tuition. Now, they are lumping the next generation with even more student debt.

Young people deserve better. Abolish tuition fees now.

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

no matter what happens, may this election be the death nail in the self-congratulatory “gen z will change the world” shit. gen z white men vote like every other generation of white men, and in some cases are further to the right

[🦋 Manson Infowars 💖 ✨ @MansonInfoWars]

Rape allegations really “ruin a man’s life” and yet you can still become president of the United States of America 🇺🇸.

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

The world feels a whole lot more terrifying this morning - especially for any hope of climate action. Right now I feel sick. But I also know we have choices on how to respond - and will try even harder to light candles rather than curse the darkness 🕯️

[The Seagull Has Landed @Red__Tim]

I think what I'm least looking forward to from a UK perspective is liberal talking heads congratulating themselves that "at least we're not heading that way over here" when any clear-eyed analysis of the last election result will demonstrate that's *exactly* the path we are on.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

[Ben Smoke @bencsmoke]

in a shocking twist, climate change is infinitely more disruptive and deadly than the actions of those trying to thwart it! good job we threw them all in jail though!

[Kat Abughazaleh @KatAbughazaleh]

does anyone else feel ashamed knowing that as children are being burned alive in their hospital beds, you are safe and comfortable in your home and then feel ashamed of being ashamed because it's the lightest possible burden we could have at this moment is this even coherent

[Lucy Moon 🌙 @iamnotlucymoon]

I have friends tell me they’re moving back home to their parents’ nearly every month atm. We’re in our late twenties

Young people can’t afford to live in the city they work in, let alone have a child

[Jamie Henn @jamieclimate]

Never forget that we had all the scientific evidence we needed to act on global warming over 50 years ago, but the fossil fuel industry spent millions to spread disinformation and block climate action.

Global warming isn’t a tragedy, it’s a crime.

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

A developer wants to destroy one of the last remaining riverside meadows beside the Roding in London. 11 acres of rapidly rewilding meadow, a haven for nature in an urban area, where kingfishers nest, kestrels & bats take flight & all manner of insects, butterflies & amphibians live, is proposed to be bulldozed to create a crazy golf course. This despite the fact that there are already *two* existing golf courses within a few hundred metres of this site!

The meadows used to be a publicly accessible playing field, but the person behind the development appears to have locked it up & allowed rubbish & flytipping to proliferate to make this site look ugly & unused; & thereby justify its destruction. I have been helping local residents to organise a campaign to ‘Save the Roding Meadows’ & they’ve done so much in a short space of time. Last weekend, they showed the power of community & organised a work day to do the landowners job for them and clean up the large amount of rubbish in the meadows.

You can help them in their efforts by taking a moment to share this post and sign and share their petition:

https://t.co/TgT2nK1Rk1

If you live anywhere locally (in LB Redbridge or along the Roding) any additional objections to the local authority would be really helpful. The application is below, & you can use this link to log objections via the portal. The deadline is this Friday (4th October):

https://t.co/x3Ya63ZC7G

Residents have compiled an example letter setting out the key objections at this link. Feel free to use, but personalised letters are preferable if at all possible:

https://t.co/kP1Nce4Gt1

Fingers crossed that the depth of care felt by local people for nature can save this irreplaceable meadow from destruction.

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

"I'm proud to be working class, and I'm proud to be anti-racist working class as well!"

Love this woman - interviewed by @novaramedia in Barnsley today ❤