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I am so glad that we’ve managed to learn absolutely nothing from this whole experience, guys. Stay classy, England.

The British public: I can ignore mass sleaze, corruption, homophobia, sexism, blaming the victims of Grenfell tower, letting migrants drown and then criminalising lifeboats forming trying to save them, criminalising basically any form of political protest by banning any “annoying protests”, constant breaking of own COVID rules, not taking action against the systematic and violent misogyny in the police force, mismanaging the pandemic so that the country had the worst death count in Europe, the prime minister saying “let the bodies pile up in their thousands”, a terrible brexit deal, caring more about statues than BLM protesters, consistently voting to starve children, profiting of Saudi Arabia’s war crimes in Yemen, constant breaking of international law, lying to illegally pirogue parliament, still illegally occupying the Chagos islands, tax evasion, the foreign secretary holidaying while hundreds die in Afghanistan, literal eugenics from a political advisor, breaking international human rights laws with a bill that enables the government to revoke the right of Citizenship of immigrants arbitrarily but I draw the line at having an office party when I wasn’t allowed to.

anyway now that we’re all talking about britain i want everyone to read this article and educate themselves on how fucked up the class divide in my country is

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Sam: I still think about Jessica

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Note how the outrage about Sarah Everard was all deemed legitimate in the beginning, when the conversation was all about women being able to go out late and men holding men accountable, etc. These discussions are relevant, but they don't change the status quo.

The second the discussion started to involve criticism of the police, as soon as it became clear that this was not just a concern of white liberals, then suddenly the police behaviour at the vigil was deemed totally appropriate and much of the media lost their appetite to talk about it.

COVID is slowly becoming a “third world” disease. While first world countries are hoarding vaccines, having doses for populations many times their size, third world countries can’t get any because pharma companies want to sell to the first world countries first. Even then, first world countries will receive them first. While rich countries recover from COVID, they will forget about the pandemic while many other countries live the absolute worst moment of the pandemic without being able to vaccinate their population.

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David O'Sullivan has been a London bus driver and tube worker for 30 years. His company has just sacked him for standing up for his colleagues' health and safety rights during the pandemic.

The fatality rate for London bus drivers is almost three times the national average and Britain has been one of the worst-affected countries during the pandemic.

In January, Dave asserted the rights of himself and his colleagues to a safe workplace. This is covered by Section 44 of the Employment Rights Act (1996). When he warned his colleagues about the spread of COVID-19 at the bus garage and informed them of their rights under the Act, he was sacked.

The union colluded with management in the sacking.

Because of serious safety breaches by management, Dave and his colleagues had already written to the company's Managing Director, the London Deputy Mayor for Transport, and Unite the Union officials. They were ignored.

Section 44 gives all employees the right to refuse to work “in circumstances of danger which the employee reasonably believes to be serious and imminent”. Employees can remove themselves until “appropriate steps” are taken “to protect themselves or other persons in danger.”

All British workers have this right.

Dave's claim against Metroline is a test case for the rights of key workers during the pandemic. Please don't let the legal system force key workers into yet more unsafe conditions!

Dave has evidence. He has secured legal advice. What he and London bus drivers need now is your support.

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A test case for the rights of key workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

My name is David O'Sullivan. I'm a London bus driver who was sacked for standing up for my colleagues' health and safety rights during the C

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So, India is dying.

Look, I know a good number of you are from the US and things aren't amazing there either, but my country is literally on the brink of collapse. So I'd love it if we could talk about that for a minute.

If you can't do anything else, please just read and reblog.

A second COVID wave has taken out the healthcare system. There are no more hospital beds. There's an oxygen shortage. There's a critical vaccine shortage. The Central Government has thrown its hands up and is passing the baton to the State Governments to do what they can.

There are over 16 million covid cases. A record 330,000 new cases reported yesterday - comparable to the US at its peak. 187,000 dead as of today.

There is no plan.

Mass cremations are taking place. The cremation grounds are running day and night and they are short on wood. People are watching their loved ones die while waiting for a hospital bed, and then they're unable to give them the proper burial rights.

Hospitals are overwhelmed. Patients are being confined, two to a bed. They're the lucky ones.

We are on the verge of people dying in the streets.

This is the second-most populous country in the world. The largest democracy. A country that encapsulates over 15,000 years of recorded human history and has endured everything from famine to invasion to colonisation.

We might be at the end. This might be the thing that does us in.

People are dying.

People are dying.

People are dying and there is no plan.

More good news? Variants are popping up. A double mutation strain has shown up. It is resistant to current vaccines. This will not go away. This is the devastation they warned of when the anti-maskers were out protesting the minor inconvenience of covering their face in public.

My country is on the verge of an emergency state. Our government has failed us. This is as dire a situation as it ever could be.

Look. I don't do much with my life. I write fics, some of you have read them and that's pretty much it. I spend my days with my head in the clouds because that's where I like to be.

But two days ago, my grandmother tested positive, had to be taken to hospital and the ambulance caught fire.

She barely made it to the urgent care she needs.

So, here I am, using whatever meager platform I have to cobble this request together. Because I have to do something.

If you can, donate.

Or spread the word.

Help. Please.