Dr Lara Kipp

Violet Affleck: "To confront the Long COVID crisis I demand mask availability, air filtration and far-UVC light in government facilities, including jails and detention centers and mask mandates in county medical facilities. We must expand availability of tests and treatment. And most importantly, the county must oppose mask bans for any reason. They do not keep us safer. They make them vulnerable members of our community less safe and make everyone less able to participate in Los Angeles together. Thank you." 🔥🔥🔥

We’ve had fifteen years of this shit. We need these people out, we need them out now, and we need to keep them out for a very long time.

The worst regional inequality in Western Europe and perhaps unsurprisingly, the lowest level of trust in politicians

The wholesale dismantling of the Welfare State. Wealthy people running a wealthy country, choosing to create scarcity. Austerity sold to us as a financial necessity. Instead, every inequality increased; every benefit cut

Distracting from every failure of government with a culture war which sees challenging racism and inequality, making the curriculum factual or representative of historical truth and a changing Britain derided as “woke".

The highest rail prices in Europe; the second worst fuel poverty; the third highest housing costs; the fourth poorest elderly

Record inequality in education. 70% of state schools’ funding cut. State school teachers run into the ground by people whose children don’t go to state schools. Child trust funds scrapped. Childcare costs up 30% in the last ten years - far higher than most European countries

Voting down free school meals. Twice. Closing 500 Sure Start centres. Some of the least happy children in the developed world, and some of the worst child poverty. In 2014, there were no British cities where more than a third of children lived in poverty. By 2021, there were six

The average person in the UK £10 200 poorer. The worst fall in real wages in the G7. 2.2m women in low-paid jobs. UK workers earning £75 a month less in real terms than in 2008, though we work Europe’s third longest hours. Retirement age raised to 68 (women’s up from 60)

Systematic underfunding of the Health Service by people who never use it. Backdoor privatisation by stealth. Clapping for the NHS and refusing nurses a pay rise over 1%. Driving down public sector pay so healthcare becomes dependent on immigration, then demonising the immigrants

Cheerleading the self-inflicted wound of Brexit: border checks that cost £4.7bn. GDP down 4%. Food £250 a year more expensive. A trade border in Ireland which threatens the Good Friday agreement. An ‘oven-ready deal’ that turned out inedible

A third of England’s libraries closed since 2010. A-level and GCSE arts entries down by 29% and 47% respectively. Humanities degrees defunded because they don’t produce “graduate outcomes in areas of economic importance.”

Local Government revenue funding cut by 48% since 2010. Culture funding down 43%. Our world-class arts organisations clinging to their reputation, begging a government who believes “music, dance, drama and performing arts, art and design …are not among our strategic priorities.”

A tax gap 100x bigger than that of benefit fraud. Huge systematic corporate tax avoidance by the government's friends and backers. FTSE bosses earning on average 120 times the average employee (people think the ideal ratio should be 7:1). 24 more new UK billionaires in 2021 alone

Very British scandals: Post Office; Grenfell; Windrush; Contaminated Blood; the Carers’ allowance. A cover-up culture: defend; deny; deceive.

The Home Office deliberately removing legal protection for Windrush immigrants in 2014. 164 people wrongly detained or deported in the ensuing scandal. 30 Windrush Report recommendations: nine not delivered; three cancelled by Suella Braverman

The dismantling of democracy. “Limited” law-breaking; proroguing Parliament; junking parliamentary standards; the Internal Market Act; the Elections Act; endangering the right to protest while claiming the Public Order Act only targets “Guardian-reading, tofu-eating wokerati.”

A pledge for everyone in UK to live fifteen minutes from a green space quietly shelved. Plans to make the target for access to green space legally binding scrapped. Sunak not attending COP 27.

Accepting £8.4 million from fossil fuel interests and climate change deniers since the last election. In the face of climate disaster, green policies delayed or abandoned. Rowing back on Net Zero. F.o.I. requests about the state of the environment buried by the Environment Agency

Taking no responsibility. Blaming teachers, nurses, railway workers, lawyers, lifeboat volunteers, the BBC, care home staff, local government, the civil service, the C of E, footballers, refuse collectors, universities and people who use food banks. So that’s everybody, then