We know elections won’t fix our major problems. At best a victor may make more progress than somebody else.…

We know elections won’t fix our major problems. At best a victor may make more progress than somebody else. But it isn’t anywhere near enough. The problems we face are orders of magnitude greater than those that made us stop everything to fight two world wars. 1/2 https://t.co/IeyCnKvcmH

We need that level of disruption to our status quo, to ‘mobilise’ entire societies on a ‘war footing’, to make meaningful progress. Is that in anybody’s election platform? No. Elections are popularity team sports, nothing more. /end