Ben Pummell
🌳 Working to address climate change. Modernism enjoyer. Own views.
- Very impressive that we've managed to go from economic policy based on the whims of voters through election cycles, to the somehow even more short-termist approach of economic policy based on periodic projections from arms-length bodies. Truly it is a mystery why our economy fails to thrive.
- Football club owners are a perfect antidote to imposter syndrome.
- Nottingham Forest head coach Ange Postecoglou has been relieved of his duties after just 39 days in charge. More from @nottmtails.bsky.social
- Reposted by Ben PummellWhat on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by Ben PummellIf you were writing a political drama and wrote Stephen Miller as a character everyone would think you were being absurdly OTT.
- Reposted by Ben PummellSo much of the commentary on Palestine today without much sense of the deep history. No this is unlikely to make much or any practical difference. But you can say this is a debt which has long been owed. The UK promised a Palestinian state a century ago when the British took on the mandate.…
- Reposted by Ben PummellA welcome - and long overdue - step. But while it’s necessary, it’s deeply insufficient - and must be accompanied by urgent action to help bring an end to the genocide in Gaza, including boycotts, sanctions and an end to all arms sales to Israel.
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Very odd watching BBC News talking about the Lib Dem conference and mentioning how the party has struggled to break through in the media like it's nothing to do with them. - This technocratic messaging simply isn't good enough for the era we're living through. Reform are gathering strength precisely because trust is at an all time low, and people *don't believe him* and *don't care* about realism. You have to challenge the ideology at source.
- Reposted by Ben PummellElon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday. I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric. Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.
- Reposted by Ben Pummell‘I’m not far right but I went to a rally organised by Tommy Robinson’ is a pretty unconvincing position.
- Reposted by Ben PummellAnd the Labour government - *Kinnock voice* the LABOUR government - thinks that's all just a wonderful display of free speech, while they also go about arresting pensioners for wearing Palestine Action t-shirts. Because the parasite-king Morgan McSweeney decided he wants racist votes.
- Reposted by Ben PummellWant to be clear that the predictable violence against the police wasn't the only problem with yesterday's march It's that 100,000 angry racists gathered in London for the biggest racist march in 50 years, and anyone not white had to steer clear The govt can't see that because they are inadequate.
- Reposted by Ben PummellI've just explained yesterday to a friend in Kyiv.. England specifically is allowing a minority of far right thugs (not even "gracing" them with the word "fascist") to get away with steering the narrative .. it isn't a debate .. it's like people sitting passively allowing a bully to shout at them.
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- Reposted by Ben PummellThis is untrue on most major issues (though the media eıite don't know this). It is untrue on immigration in particular. Untrue on climate, on Trump, on human rights, on inciting racism. And much else
- Reposted by Ben PummellThe Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.
- Reposted by Ben PummellIconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere
- Reposted by Ben PummellThis is an argument for falling population, falling GDP, and an employment crisis.
- Reposted by Ben Pummell1. Terrific that a US politician is holding Farage to account for his free speech hypocrisy 2. Why can’t we do this in the UK?? 3. Farage lies in this clip - claiming he doesn’t ban journalists from Reform conferences. I’ve been banned from the past two.
- Reposted by Ben PummellOh nothing, just the actual Prime Minister telling people they’re entirely correct to drive asylum seekers out of their communities
- Reposted by Ben PummellThe current Tory position on climate change amounts to ‘it’s happening, it’s serious, we have no meaningful plan to address it, and we intend to make it worse’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Ben PummellIf you can’t see how attacking this could have hugely dangerous implications for every single person living in the UK irrespective of citizenship or immigration status, I do not know what to tell you.
- Reposted by Ben PummellIt's actually astounding how Labour has managed to go further on anti-migrant, anti-trans etc policies in a year than the Conservatives did in 14. The way they so cavalierly talk about circumventing human rights for migrants, trans and non-binary individuals etc is beyond even the last government.
- Reposted by Ben PummellNigel Farage and the Reform Party’s Taliban Tax means sending hundreds of millions of taxpayers' money to an oppressive regime that British soldiers fought and died to defeat.
- Reposted by Ben PummellDire. The Labour Party is being led by a moral vacuum
- Reposted by Ben PummellBiden's former ambassador to Israel seems to argue that it's OK to kill kids if they're the kids of Hamas fighters. No wonder the Biden administration's policy on Israel was so wretched when people like this were involved. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
- Reposted by Ben PummellAgain, credit to the NS for even belatedly but repeatedly telling their audience the obvious, at a time where their colleagues would rather talk about anything else
- Reposted by Ben PummellIt's hard to understand what Starmer was apologising for on his 'island of strangers' comments when he's now apparently perfectly happy putting out obvious racist bait like this
- Reposted by Ben PummellKeir Starmer's political strategy of trying to position himself as Farage with better administrative skills would be morally reprehensible even if it were working. It does not appear to be.
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- Reposted by Ben PummellIf this is not deliberately racialised imagery, it is at best fantastically naive to not understand that it looks & feels like racialised dog whistling to single out this man in such a way.
- Reposted by Ben PummellThis is my opinion, and I’m not especially interested in a debate about it, but if you’re still supporting Labour, I think it’s important that you examine why, and whether your own principles can accommodate who they are telling you, daily, that they are.
- Reposted by Ben PummellWe can see the oncoming train four years away but we’re not going to get off the tracks, because that would require the country’s most important smart people to admit they were wrong and that they have disastrously fucked it
- Reposted by Ben PummellObviously the smears against this man are incredibly libellous - and it says a lot about access to the law that he wouldn't be able to afford to Lord McAlpine these fuckers - but at what point does the government clock that it needs to get a grip on this raging online fire of fascist hate?
- Reposted by Ben PummellIt would of course be trivially easy for the press and his political opponents to make this sort of action unthinkable for a mainstream politician, by the simple act of noticing all the violent Neo-Nazis attending these rallies and making Jenrick accountable for that. Alas...
- Reposted by Ben PummellRobert Jenrick, the Tory Shadow Justice Secretary and former Home Office Minister, joining protesters outside an asylum hotel is one of the most disgusting acts by a frontline British politician in living memory.
- Reposted by Ben PummellThe webinar to launch today's report with @ieep-uk.bsky.social on the UK's circular economy policy, and its divergence with the EU, has started. We're looking forward to hearing insights from experts representing businesses across the economy on this crucial issue.
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- There is nothing more redundant than columnists making unequivocal, apparently statements of fact, about aesthetics. "There is no question...there is no denying..." actually there literally is, given you're discussing completely subjective preferences on landscapes. Wind turbines look brilliant imv.
- Reposted by Ben PummellMy earnest advice to Labour supporters concerned about the new left party is to accept that: 1. The Labour Party leader told those people to leave 2. Those people are now gone. 3. You will not scold them into returning. 4. You have 4 years to get your party to attract them back into the fold.
- Reposted by Ben Pummell✍ What comes next for UK and EU circular economy policy? ♻️ Join us to discuss at an upcoming webinar to launch a new report on this crucial topic with @ieep-uk.bsky.social. Find out more and register here 👇 www.aldersgategroup.org.uk/events/post/...
- Reposted by Ben PummellMotherfucking wind farms…
- Reposted by Ben PummellSorry but we have to do better than “inherently skeptical.” These people aren’t stupid. They’ve watched mass murder, starvation, and forced displacement for 21 months and are now sharing an article to say “hey we should let a little food in.” They are all monsters and should be treated as such.
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- Reposted by Ben PummellIt is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!
- Reposted by Ben Pummellthe cost of #notzero
- Reposted by Ben PummellI would like to congratulate everyone who worked so hard to have this phrase condemned as a declaration of genocidal intent long enough for Israel to adopt it for itself and follow it through with unambiguously genocidal action.
- Reposted by Ben Pummell🎧 Today we publish a new episode of the Zeroing-In podcast, exploring how the insurance industry can play its part in delivering a net zero and nature positive economy. Listen to all the insights from experts at AXIS, Pollination, and the Aldersgate Group 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/1jCN...
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- Reposted by Ben PummellWhatever the merits of the policy on information on work checks, this seems ill-judged and inappropriate messagimg & imagery from the UK government.
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- Reposted by Ben PummellRachel Reeves yesterday: " The reason HS2 is no longer coming to Leeds anytime soon is because we care more about the bats than we do about commuter times" How could the Chancellor, for goodness sake, be anymore wrong? HS2 is a textbook case of how not manage the procurement, planning and design
- Reposted by Ben PummellAbsolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?
- Perhaps misplaced optimism but I think the vast majority of people in this country a: recognise this is nonsense because they go outside and b: utterly hate the temerity of Americans suggesting it. It doesn't strike me as a fruitful political strategy, even if some culture wars have been exported.
- Reposted by Ben Pummell1.5 million Gazans is 75% of the population, half of whom are children. This is *deliberate* starvation. Just one agency - UNRWA - has stated today it has enough food stockpiled outside the border to feed the population for months. The Israeli govt must let food and water in & stop the killing.
