THIS IS NOT MY COUNTRY

Myanmar
China

Tens of thousands of people who had nothing to begin with are (yet again) victims of natural disasters.

We don’t have words for this.
There are no words.

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Via Zoe Williams at The Guardian

I know I don’t live there anymore, but I still care about what happens to my former home city. This is not good news… Boris the Joke Johnson is now Mayor of London. Now they don’t have to imagine… it’s reality.

Londoners - some famous, some not - imagine their city under Boris

Alan Rickman
Actor and director

“If Boris Johnson gets elected it would be a case of the lunatic having no clue how to run the asylum. Good luck to Ken, good luck to all of us.”

Dr Nonee Sen, 68
Barrister

“Boris has as little knowledge of multiculturalism as I have of life on Jupiter. He used to go to this club in Oxford called the Bullingdon Club, full of snobs and creative conmen. The man has not only no physical ability to run anything, he is immoral and a bully. Boris as mayor would be like discovering you had piles and there was no cure for it.”

Vivienne Westwood
Fashion designer

“Boris as mayor? Unthinkable. It just exposes democracy as a sham, especially if people don’t vote for Ken - he’s the best thing in politics. Unthinkable.”

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