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😢 We took a double-take on seeing this. Looks like an apocalyptic @coldwarsteve.bsky.social cartoon fused with a Heironymous Bosch painting, but it's not - it's all too real and it's happening now in southwestern France. Maybe it should be entitled "Complacency at the Beach"...?
📢 INEQUALITY GRAPHIC OF THE WEEK (No.26) 🔽 The rich are getting richer in the UK while the safety net for the poor frays even further... #Inequality #Poverty #UKfail Source: Prof. Danny Dorling Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of a Failing State www.dannydorling.org/books/shatte...
🤔 Would like to think we're getting near the tipping point on concrete action to phase out fossil fuels but suspect we'll need a few more years of this horror, at the very least, before governments move... #DumbHumans #WeAreTheSlowlyBurningFrogs🐸
🤮 There's always millions for war and killing - and also AI so we can turn war and killing into a remotely activated video game that will make the perpetrators feel less guilty. But money for lowering bus fares and energy bills is reckless...🙄
😢 RIP Kevin Keegan.🙏 Great footballer. Great manager. Great man. And provider of one of the best sporting quotes ever...
📢 INEQUALITY GRAPHIC OF THE WEEK (No.25) 🔽 After the financial crash of 2007/8, wages failed to recover as the rich hogged the proceeds of the UK’s sluggish growth... Source: Prof. Danny Dorling Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of a Failing State www.dannydorling.org/books/shatte...
🤔 Doesn't this just make us look like a pathetic, tetchy little nation of sore losers easily offended by hurty words? And what about "free speech" which we're all supposed to embrace these days...?
📢 HUGE THANKS AGAIN to everyone following us and welcome to the new folk ♥️. We've now hit 5.5k followers! We advocate: ✅ Taxing wealth to eliminate billionaires ✅ Urgent action on climate change ✅ Rejecting AI before it's too late ✅ Defeating the far-right wherever it rears its ugly head.✊
📢 INEQUALITY GRAPHIC OF THE WEEK (No.24) 🔽 The UK is enduring its worst pay squeeze and associated cost of living crisis since the Napoleonic era… Source: Prof. Danny Dorling Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of a Failing State www.dannydorling.org/books/shatte...
🤔 It's not just the Belgians who beat the USA, all developed countries beat them (at everything...) 🔽. #USAfail 🤡 ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
📢 We look forward to a world in which billionaires no longer exist and, on the way to that, become despised and are regarded as unacceptable as "big game" trophy hunters or those who wear fur or those who smoke over a baby's cot. It's time we stopped kicking down and punched upwards instead... 👍✊
📢 Up yours Farage, Lowe, Tommy Ten-Names and all of the horrible racist dregs that follow you... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
📢 INEQUALITY GRAPHIC OF THE WEEK (No.23) 🔽 To reverse the victory of capital over labour of the past 40+ years, we need stronger and more militant unions. #JoinAUnion Source: Prof. Danny Dorling Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of a Failing State www.dannydorling.org/books/shatte...
📢 INEQUALITY GRAPHIC OF THE WEEK (No.22) 🔽 The UK’s international ranking for life expectancy has fallen steadily for decades. We're going backwards... Source: Prof. Danny Dorling Peak Injustice: Solving Britain’s Inequality Crisis www.dannydorling.org/books/peakin...
Fun fact: Nordic countries have the highest levels of social mobility, the US is among the lowest. As the saying goes: "If you want to live the American Dream: Move to Denmark." More details here: ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
📢 SALTED EARTH 🔽: All the economic, social, and political problems the UK is enduring go back to the surge in #inequality and #poverty that occurred in the 1980s. This tore the country apart, baked in anger and resentment, and laid the foundations for the great self-inflicted harm of #Brexit...
Even on immigration, which is tricky for Labour, they shouldn't pander to Reform and should instead make a robust defence of immigration on "securonomic" grounds - i.e. that without immigration we'll have a falling and rapidly ageing (and ill) population with a lack of healthy young workers...
🚨 Where the rot started 🔽. Getting elected leader under false pretenses and ratcheting up people's expectations only then to march away from them in a rightward direction, a march that continued once in power...
😢 We've really fecked up the climate, haven't we...? We haven't even reached July and August, often the hottest months, and we've had two heatwaves already...
📢 INEQUALITY GRAPHIC OF THE WEEK (No.21) 🔽 Housing in the UK has become increasingly unaffordable: Thatcher’s “property-owning democracy” was always a con... Source: Prof. Danny Dorling Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of a Failing State www.dannydorling.org/books/shatte...
🤔 This weird torpor 🔽 seems to be a defining characteristic of Starmer. It's a contributory factor to the overall feeling that this is a govt that is largely managerial and technocratic and, correspondingly, lacks energy and has no burning sense of mission... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...