Mass gaslighting of the country by those advocating for extreme market liberalisation. Telling us that our fundamental sense of fairness and equality between fellow citizens is immoral. In face of empirical and ethical evidence that reducing inequalities is better for all. @Conservatives - you need to get a grip of these people, out today in the media.
Morality = taking the perspective of others who are vulnerable to harm. Immorality = giving licence to policies or attitudes encouraging society to abandon its responsibilities for most vulnerable.

To #LabourConference2022 - a #ProgressiveAlliance is a process for defeating Tories at the next critical GE. It does not depend on policy pre-commitments. Parties agree to work together to encourage tactical voting and who will stand, depending on local voting behaviour. To #LabourConference2022 - the next GE will be very tight. Handfuls of votes may make the difference between win/lose. A #ProgressiveAlliance reduces risks of lose. It increases the value of every vote. Makes every constituency competitive. Ensures no safe Tory hiding place.

Are we going to hear anything from anybody before the end of this rudderless day? If forthcoming Bank of England move does not calm markets, Kwarteng's timetable will be toast.

https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1574419169470095360?t=bP32FksLsppmmhTXa_MH0g&s=19

5th May 2022 local elections:

Get ready to deprive many many Tories of re-election.
Join with others to make your local citizen's #ProgressiveAlliance

1. Entry Point:
Find your #ForwardTogether constituency Facebook page. To meet. Talk. Organise.

@chilterns4
@EricaNeustadt 2. Group Formation:
@CompassOffice groups already exist or can be set up.
@RebootGb groups likewise.
Or just make your own new group using #ForwardTogether FB page.

Citizens of #NorthShropshire. What can you do to deprive Tories of power?
1. Pressure oppo parties to co-operate. To make cross-party plan based on local voting behaviour & needs #ProgressiveAlliance.
2. Campaign for tactical voting. Ideally combined with 1.
@chilterns4 Local people can come together to:
1. Encourage @NShropshire_CLP @DemsNorth @NShropsGreens to co-operate. (P.S. don't be put off by @UKLabour saying their party rules don't let them. Time for excuses is over).
2. Encourage people to vote tactically.
@chilterns4
@EricaNeustadt

@Neal_Compass I live in #CheshamAndAmersham @derek_rocholl. Campaigned for tactical voting in 2019. Now campaigning for #ProgressiveAlliance. In recent by-election, we needed some votes from @conservatives. These would never have voted @UKLabour. This is why local plans are needed
@chilterns4 @Neal_Compass @derek_rocholl @Conservatives @UKLabour @chilterns4 Also, in 2019, we campaigned for tactical voting in 4 Chilterns constituencies. Lack of reciprocity lost us all four seats. @libdems would not stand aside in High Wycombe because @UKLabour would not stand aside in Chesham and Amersham. Frankly, absurd, irresponsible @chilterns4

I don't want my pension fund investing in 'British entrepreneurial spirit'. That is not an investment goal with any social, environmental or economic value. And there are slim pickings amongst 'British success stories'.

theguardian.com/business/2021/… James Anderson, outgoing head of Scottish Mortgage who knows a thing or two about investing in entrepreneurial companies, sees few value-creating opportunities in UK. What little we have, we sell off - ARM being the most egregious example.

ft.com/content/81d472…

Hope for us activists.
Collective action as a pathway for psychological healing of whole communities.
I reckon we need this.
#COVID19
#Brexit
#ClimateAction

societyforpsychotherapy.org/a-psychologica… By the way, #ElectionsBill sets out to undermine political collective action. Or joining together for common purpose to achieve peaceful transfer of power in elections.

Eve of July 19=Unfreedom Day.

Imagine.
Imagine your child.
Imagine her in hospital.
Collapsed.
Hooked up.
16 months since she first suffered
Long Covid.

This is Sammie's daughter. Today. Now.
Sammie is founder of @LongCovidKids.

Children before @Conservatives party

#COVID19 #LongCovidKids can be found on Instagram.

@chilterns4
@EricaNeustadt
@geniejq
@CarolineLucas
@labourlewis
@LaylaMoran

And here:
longcovidkids.org

Threading some tweets:

Calling for whole society response to #COVID19 public health emergency.

See article by myself and @EricaNeustadt

m.facebook.com/story.php?stor…

@chilterns4
#ProgressiveAlliance
#DemocraticAlliance

https://twitter.com/YeomanRuth/status/1416297848652673025?s=19

Incredibly important discussion. Govt's failing mass infection strategy is based on libertarian ideology, not a prudent plan. @TheLancet @allthecitizens #JohnsonVariant #LongCovidKids
#NHS #COVID19

https://twitter.com/YeomanRuth/status/1413058787036991495

Hospitals already struggling. Record breaking attendances. Cancer operations being cancelled. ICUs filled with #COVID19 patients.

I think we must understand it is worse than we thought. Our govt is deliberately fuelling the pandemic. Goal of hybrid immunity policy is to expose our unvaccinated children to #COVID19. To 60% more transmissive Delta variant
#LongCovidKids @chilterns4 theguardian.com/commentisfree/… A conscious policy design to accelerate the virus through the bodies of our children. No isolation for kids, no free lateral flow tests, forced back to work, no mandatory masks, no payment support. Scandalous generational burden of permanent scarring. @Conservatives @sajidjavid

If the message has not got through, then here it is again. Our govt has abandoned us. It has deliberately smashed social solidarity. Set us one against another. By foregoing its responsibility to protect, it has become an illegitimate, failing regime @Conservatives @sajidjavid We are on our own. As we were at pandemic start. Stitching together mutual aid & joint action. Organised society & communities can respond:
Corporates - let people work from home, mask up frontline staff & customers. Require social distancing. Set up your own test, track, trace

As Covid cases rise, this New Scientist item is good reminder of the importance of combining vaccination programme with social measures to suppress virus. We continue to lack a proper infrastructure for doing so. What little we have is about to be removed
newscientist.com/article/225725… @sajidjavid using virus to cast himself as the new strong man is a disgrace. He made catastrophic error in his first statement as Health Secretary. And now he expects us to follow him into a very dark place. Johnson seems to be nowhere. We must try to help each other #NHS

What is a British firm? @UKLabour

theguardian.com/politics/2021/… MINI Cooper - German owned by BMW
British Airways - Spanish owned by IAG
British Steel - Chinese owned by Jingye Group
Cadburys - US owned by Mondelez
And most notoriously, key British technology company ARM sold to Japan's SoftBank & now US's Nvidia

Giving this more thought. Since the opposing parties lack a parliamentary majority, how will they secure PR? Whilst debates on PR go back & forth, we get closer to a 2022/3 General Election
#ProgressiveAlliance
#DemocraticAlliance
#FBPPR
#FBPE
@chilterns4

theguardian.com/commentisfree/… In the next GE, we must remove from power the people who have stolen the #conservative party. We will likely not have PR to help us. So we need to start building now a #ProgressiveAlliance. Goes beyond tactical voting. Makes choice easier for the voter
#DemocraticAlliance
#FBPPR

What is a #ProgressiveAlliance ? It is the strategic answer to the meta-threat the people who have stolen the #Conservative party present to our democracy. To the freedom, power and solidarity we need to pursue all other progressive policy objectives.
@chilterns4
#FBPPR
#FBPE There may be other strategies - such as tactical voting. But these put too great a burden on the voter. And gets the parties off the hook - they don't need to do anything. The parties must take back responsibility. They must serve their core public purpose of giving us voice.

Hello Twitter Friends,

As we absorb and reflect on the Cummings evidence. A thread asking - How can we, together, create #ProgressiveAlliance #DemocraticAlliance?

If you can, do please enrich the discussion with your experiences and ideas. Send Tweets & Messages

Here goes: (1) The political parties need our support to come to the table, to start their talks. Let's identify and dismantle their barriers to doing so.