These protests aren't about left vs right. They're about everyday people who've been told, time and time again, that austerity is the inevitable consequence of crises, while those same crises have generated extraordinary profits for those at the top. But these aren't natural consequences. They're the result of decades of political choices to socialise the costs of crises while privatising the gains. And the bullshit isn't working anymore. Blaming immigrants, disabled people, the welfare bill, or whoever else makes a convenient scapegoat isn't going to hide the reality that the system is working exactly as it's been designed to. What we're seeing in Paris and across Europe isn't going to stop. I genuinely think this is just the beginning of a society waking up to the fact that the crises we're living through, and the inequalities they create, aren't inevitable. They're the consequences of political and economic choices. Politics has a choice to make. Double down on fascist gaslighting, directing public anger towards the most vulnerable to protect those profiting from the status quo. Or finally confront the structural inequalities driving these crises and fundamentally rethink an economy built around extraction, replacing it with one built around regeneration, shared prosperity and the wellbeing of people and the planet. People aren't just angry about the latest crisis anymore. They're beginning to question the entire system that keeps producing them. @andyburnham @ZackPolanski @KemiBadenoch @jeremycorbyn @owenjonesjourno