WHAT NEXT?

To continue to target the decision-makers at 16 Summer Lane to help them to understand that only by cutting spending on luxuries like HS2, Metro and Sprint can greenhouse gases be cut. For every pound we spend, fossil fuels are implicated, such is our addiction.

So only spend to expel more GHG, by going for projects like insulating and putting PV panels on every EWS facing roof; bribing motorists out of their cars by Fare-Free Public Transport; and by a Universal Basic Income scheme so that we don't have to find ecologically ruinous jobs just to keep everyone in food, shelter and clothing.

Abandon the 8 tax havens for the super-rich to help them cut their addiction to greed, selfishness and accelerating climate catastrophe.

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 Just read on Wikipedia: "Andrew Yang has been credited with popularizing the idea of universal basic income through his candidacy and activism." He gets my vote for that! JOBS THAT WILL POSTPONE ECOCIDE! Not jobs for economic growth, ecological loss, worse climate disaster.

We are living infinitely on a finite planet and unnaturally on a natural planet. Using concrete, brick and tarmac to literally cover, indeed bury nature and all her works, forgetting that we are part of nature. Dangerous stuff!

13.6.21: Lacks detail because the leaders cannot bear to go without their precious economic growth on the back of finite fossil fuels that bring the runaway greenhouse effect. Economic activity is more important than a healthy planet. Pathetic! Foolish! Ecocidal!

13.6.21: There is no sense of urgency, of crisis, or any concern over climate despite them declaring a climate emergency. They are on the road to nothing changing apart from a worsening climate for us all.

14.6.21: They should have stuck to the commuter trains between Wolverhampton and Snow Hill Station with buses taking passengers to and from. The same mistake is being made with an even more important railway line: Derby to Devon via Dudley, aka Burton on Trent to Bristol via Brierley Hill.

Electable leaders, UBI and Scottish independence

That all seems fair enough to me, Bob.  And also what Mike wrote, that was useful to know.  To get out of the production/consumption/consumerism treadmill of ever more from ever less, I like Universal Basic Income.  Any thoughts from anybody?

When you wrote, Labour's "own goal of not opposing Unionism in Scotland", do you mean the failure of Labour to support a second independence referendum if the SNP did well in May?  The double negative, I think, is best avoided.  From what I heard on the radio, I'm sure Corbyn did not rule out a second referendum over Independence for Scotland in one of his visits.  But he had to choose his words carefully, of course as he did over Brexit.  The problems of large parties with a diverse and wide range of opinions.

I thought that the right-wing British electorate was another factor in Labour's defeat.  Their leader was considered unelectable because, unlike Blair and Thatcher, whose wars he opposed, Corbyn was supporting conflict resolution and diplomacy and full UN agreement before going in with all guns blazing - and then, only as a very last resort.

For me, Brexit is turning out to be a nightmare and a folly.  Far more sensible to stay in and stick with majority decisions and to fight our corner in the EU.  Far less trouble, heartache and complications for everybody that also risks peace in N Ireland!  Cameron was a fool in giving the referendum with an oversimplified in/out choice with no caveats - like any change needing a clear 60% out vote.