In this #COVID19 crisis, some worry about having a eugenics nutjob like Cummings in charge... Before rubbishing this as alarmist, please consider Charles Trevelyan, the Treasury official placed in charge of relief during the Irish famine in the1840s. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="โฌ‡๏ธ" title="Downwards arrow" aria-label="Emoji: Downwards arrow">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿ˜ " title="Angry face" aria-label="Emoji: Angry face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="โœŠ" title="Raised fist" aria-label="Emoji: Raised fist">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿฆ " title="Microbe" aria-label="Emoji: Microbe"> #ToriesOut https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ" title="Flag of European Union" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of European Union">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช" title="Flag of Ireland" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of Ireland">
In this   #COVID19 crisis, some worry about having a eugenics nutjob like Cummings in charge... Before rubbishing this as alarmist, please consider Charles Trevelyan, the Treasury official placed in charge of relief during the Irish famine in the1840s. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable=https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿ˜ " title="Angry face" aria-label="Emoji: Angry face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="โœŠ" title="Raised fist" aria-label="Emoji: Raised fist">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿฆ " title="Microbe" aria-label="Emoji: Microbe"> #ToriesOut https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ" title="Flag of European Union" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of European Union">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช" title="Flag of Ireland" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of Ireland">" title="In this #COVID19 crisis, some worry about having a eugenics nutjob like Cummings in charge... Before rubbishing this as alarmist, please consider Charles Trevelyan, the Treasury official placed in charge of relief during the Irish famine in the1840s. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="โฌ‡๏ธ" title="Downwards arrow" aria-label="Emoji: Downwards arrow">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿ˜ " title="Angry face" aria-label="Emoji: Angry face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="โœŠ" title="Raised fist" aria-label="Emoji: Raised fist">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿฆ " title="Microbe" aria-label="Emoji: Microbe"> #ToriesOut https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ" title="Flag of European Union" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of European Union">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช" title="Flag of Ireland" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of Ireland">" class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
We tend to assume that our government would *never* consciously do anything to damage its own people... Trevelyan, however, took the psychopathic view that the famine was divine intervention on the feckless poor... https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="โฌ‡๏ธ" title="Downwards arrow" aria-label="Emoji: Downwards arrow"> https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿ˜–" title="Confounded face" aria-label="Emoji: Confounded face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="โœŠ" title="Raised fist" aria-label="Emoji: Raised fist">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ" title="Flag of European Union" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of European Union">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช" title="Flag of Ireland" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of Ireland"> #history #famine #Ireland #capitalism
We tend to assume that our government would *never* consciously do anything to damage its own people... Trevelyan, however, took the psychopathic view that the famine was divine intervention on the feckless poor... https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable= https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿ˜–" title="Confounded face" aria-label="Emoji: Confounded face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="โœŠ" title="Raised fist" aria-label="Emoji: Raised fist">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ" title="Flag of European Union" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of European Union">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช" title="Flag of Ireland" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of Ireland"> #history #famine #Ireland #capitalism" title="We tend to assume that our government would *never* consciously do anything to damage its own people... Trevelyan, however, took the psychopathic view that the famine was divine intervention on the feckless poor... https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="โฌ‡๏ธ" title="Downwards arrow" aria-label="Emoji: Downwards arrow"> https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿ˜–" title="Confounded face" aria-label="Emoji: Confounded face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="โœŠ" title="Raised fist" aria-label="Emoji: Raised fist">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ" title="Flag of European Union" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of European Union">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช" title="Flag of Ireland" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of Ireland"> #history #famine #Ireland #capitalism" class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
This was at a time when - even during the years of famine - Ireland was exporting around 300,000 tons of grain to England per annum. Fully *one million* Irish people are believed to have died due to the famine, and around two million emigrated. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿ˜ " title="Angry face" aria-label="Emoji: Angry face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="โœŠ" title="Raised fist" aria-label="Emoji: Raised fist">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ" title="Flag of European Union" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of European Union">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช" title="Flag of Ireland" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of Ireland"> #resist #ToriesOut
Astonishingly, he was knighted for his work on the famine, & was later given a baronetcy, which his descendants still possess. This is a reminder that Trevelyan was NOT some rogue nutjob, but fully a part of the establishment, the one that still โ€œgovernsโ€ us... https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿ˜ " title="Angry face" aria-label="Emoji: Angry face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="โœŠ" title="Raised fist" aria-label="Emoji: Raised fist"> #ToriesOut
The fact that this lunatic, practically genocidal policy was carried out by a UK Treasury official also demonstrates the urgent need to criticise the government and hold it to account: crisis does NOT mean a free pass for bad decisions. #resist #ToriesOut #JohnsonMustGo https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿฆ " title="Microbe" aria-label="Emoji: Microbe">
I came across Charles Trevelyan in this extraordinarily interesting book from @_RajPatel and @oikeios... Very highly recommended! https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿค“" title="Nerd face" aria-label="Emoji: Nerd face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="โœŠ" title="Raised fist" aria-label="Emoji: Raised fist">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ" title="Flag of European Union" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of European Union"> @VersoBooks #resist #ToriesOut #COVID19 https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿฆ " title="Microbe" aria-label="Emoji: Microbe">
I came across Charles Trevelyan in this extraordinarily interesting book from  @_RajPatel and  @oikeios... Very highly recommended! https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable=https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="โœŠ" title="Raised fist" aria-label="Emoji: Raised fist">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ" title="Flag of European Union" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of European Union"> @VersoBooks #resist #ToriesOut #COVID19 https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿฆ " title="Microbe" aria-label="Emoji: Microbe">" title="I came across Charles Trevelyan in this extraordinarily interesting book from @_RajPatel and @oikeios... Very highly recommended! https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿค“" title="Nerd face" aria-label="Emoji: Nerd face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="โœŠ" title="Raised fist" aria-label="Emoji: Raised fist">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ" title="Flag of European Union" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of European Union"> @VersoBooks #resist #ToriesOut #COVID19 https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿฆ " title="Microbe" aria-label="Emoji: Microbe">" class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
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