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Believe in democracy and equality. Detest social injustice; all think tanks assoc. with Tufton Street and Tory libertarians - do not believe in trickle down economics. Protect nature and our water bodies. Save Our NHS šŸ’™

France will abolish flights between cities that are linked by a train journey of less than 2.5 hours.
#ClimateCrisis #nofly

https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/12/02/is-france-banning-private-jets-everything-we-know-from-a-week-of-green-transport-proposals

Short-haul flights are now banned in France thanks to new law

The idea for the ban originally came from a Citizens' Assembly.

euronews

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Nadhim Zahawi said this morning it would cost Ā£10bn to give nurses a proper pay rise, so it’s unaffordable.

Know what else cost us exactly Ā£10bn? His Government’s sleazy procurement process which led to millions of items of defective and unsuitable PPE https://twitter.com/lbc/status/1599340710242750466

šŸ¦šŸ”—: https://twitter.com/RachelSmethers/status/1599342946226098178

LBC on Twitter

ā€œConservative Chairman Nadhim Zahawi says the NHS's pay rise request is 'undeliverable'. @AndrewCastle63 | @nadhimzahawiā€

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Repealing EU laws is a hugely lucrative 'Brexit Opportunity' for the Tories, they can exert full blown disaster capitalism on their 'customers.' That's you, your family (the left-behinds on less than £200,000 per year)
Do you know what a Charter City is? Of the total number of investors granted permanent settlement during this period (2,823), 75% were from countries of human rights concern, while 65% were from Russia and China alone.
They're queuing up for the post Brexit takings.
"In our society, there seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.ā€
- David Graeber
@uanews
Be careful …..
Andy Davey: Is that #RishiSunak fellow really up that ol' creek sans paddle? Well, things ain't smelling rosy - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
Possibly unpopular opinion here…but all these complaints about how the influx of new users is impacting Mastodon culture, it just dawned on me that it’s akin to how people speak about immigrants (i.e. ā€œTHEY came here, they should assimilate to OUR way of doing things, and adapt our cultureā€)
As an immigrant myself (in real life) I know first hand the impacts of this inflexible way of thinking. It’s a nuanced topic, but just something for the OG Mastodon inhabitants to consider.
#FoodForThought
@SueASmith oh yes! It’s a point I made in my article. Yes, some days I can run a 5k - but some days I can’t even get out of bed. They don’t understand that there is not one setting - we can be so different on different days. When I say ā€˜I can’t do that, I’m too tired’ and they say ā€˜but you were bouncing with energy yesterday’ ….

@michellebirkby
Well said Michelle. I have a progressive disability that fluctuates from day to day, hour to hour. People who know me understand that some days I can walk a few steps and other days I must use my powered wheelchair.
People who don’t know me sometimes look at me with a sceptical look. Do I care not anymore!

Like people disability comes in all shapes and sizes. We should respect the diversity