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Remember today is the Emergency Alerts test. 🚨 A siren-like sound and notification will happen at 3pm on compatible UK mobile phones and tablets.

If you are feeling anguish or desolation at this result, you are not alone. This time around, Trump’s team have a concrete plan (called Project 2025) to destroy as much as they can of the world’s remaining climate stability. This is a crime and a tragedy. There are many things that should happen in response, but here is the most important: we need to build resilience together against what is coming. Trump’s victory makes eco-driven societal collapse more likely, and our situation will become increasingly parlous. Don’t just get mad, get safer. Now is the time to pour our energy into community resilience like we never have before. This election result must be an ultimate wake-up call; we need to protect ourselves together against the unimaginable storms that will, tragically, keep growing over the coming decade(s).

Ed Miliband painted a bleak picture of climate change impacts at this morning's cabinet. "Climate change is a threat to national security & growth, given [it] could force more than 200m people globally to migrate, the global economy could be 19% smaller in 2049 than it would be otherwise & it could put an additional 600,000 people in UK at risk of flooding." Very clear dividing line with Tories given Kemi Badenoch has suggested she wants to delay/ scrap UK's net zero targets.

Enduring more economic pain and hardship isn’t what people voted for. They were told they were voting for change. Not voting for things to get worse before they get better. Labour needs to be honest about the fact that they could choose to make things better for everyone if they were bolder and braver. What is being framed as tough choices is actually about political choices. People don’t need a constant reminder that the Tories broke Britain. They need a new approach, not misguided fiscal rules that are set to make things worse. We must generate the funds needed for investment by shifting the burden away from the poorest onto the wealthiest. Labour’s refusal to tax the super-rich shows that business as usual is very much still in business. Keir Starmer says the violent riots earlier this month exposed a deeply unhealthy society. But the health of a society can’t be improved if it is forced to swallow the same failed medicine. The government can choose to provide the investment our communities are crying out for. This would help create hope and unleash the goodness of people to improve their communities.

Our UK PM is a socialist. When he says he wants to grow the economy he does not mean it the way we think he does. He means it the way a socialist means it - He believes it is possible to grow the economy without any particular individual benefiting more than others. He thinks he can raise the tide economically without any individuals getting rich personally. This is the socialist fantasy. It never works because an economy is made up of individuals. The Singaporean economy is wealthy because individuals are wealthy. The Venezuelan population is impoverished because individuals are impoverished. For the PM, there is nothing incongruent about saying he wants a high growth, high tax economy. In his head, it is the government that creates high growth and individuals just slave away the same regardless of their personal incentives. When he talks about “wealth creation” being a primary goal, he is talking about the socialist idea of wealth - a shared wealth that is held primarily by the state. He is not talking about you personally having any. Socialsist believe nonsense. They would probably believe that “if we are all slaves then we will all be free” or “if none of us has a nice car then we will all have nice cars”. It’s a logical fallacy they can’t get their heads around. Why? Deep down they are emotional and emotions block logic. They are driven by a hatred of inequality of outcomes. In particular socialists hate anyone doing better than them. They have a clear vision of utopia and this vision of utopia makes them feel superior to others. They can’t stand “lesser people” like high-school dropouts earning more money and having more wealth. How can a shopkeepers daughter become PM when she’s clearly not as excellent as a lawyer. How can an Essex boy drive around in Rolls Royce when I don’t and I am an academic! It makes their blood boil and they are willing to destroy society rather than face facts that wealth and income isn’t based on superiority, it’s based on free markets - oh do they hate free markets!