"I've seen these boats come ashore in front of me... it's very sad the way that we have very little care for other people. We're all humans at the end of the day, and I find it very sad that we have little compassion."
~ audience member.

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"I just don't know when we started dehumanising people to the extent that we do now. I find it really shocking." ~ @mariellafrostrup.bsky.social

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"We've had 14 years of Conservative austerity. They shut our libraries. They shut our community centres. And then to say integration is the problem. How do you expect people to integrate if you've taken away their services?" ~ @zackpolanski.bsky.social

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"If we're talking about deceptions, the big deception is that GDP could be seen as a measure of our well-being." ~ @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

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"I don't think anyone should take lectures from [a former minister of] a government, that presided over a decade and a half of austerity, about the state of our prisons or any other public service." ~ Paul Nowak

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"One doesn't know how one will behave in a pandemic until one finds oneself in a pandemic... However, I think we were in the very unfortunate position of having Boris Johnson in charge at the time." Zoe Lyons

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"Why did we have an explosion in the number of asylum hotels in the country? Why did we have all this strife and division in communities? It's because the last government effectively gave up on processing asylum claims."
~ Lisa Nandy @lisanandymp.bsky.social

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"I work in the public sector very closely with local authorities, the NHS, the police… we've seen years and years of cuts to funding for services for people that need them."
"Would you be prepared to pay more taxes to [solve] that?"
"Yes."
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"You're suggesting that by leaving the ECHR, this will solve all the problems. Well, we bought a 'leave everything' arguement off your party before and it didn't quite work out... A lot of people have buyer's remorse."
~ @billybragg.bsky.social

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"A fair and just peace is the end of Russian aggression, the pulling out of all Russian troops and going back to Ukraine's 1991 borders." ~ Lesia Vasylenko

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"The 2008 financial crisis really exposed the lack of productivity in the British economy in areas other than the city and financial services. And the truth is that no government has sorted that out since." ~ @sonia-sodha.bsky.social

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"[Keir Starmer] is struggling explain to people that the reason you're on a housing waiting list, the NHS is underfunded & your child can't get a special school place is not because of immigrants - it's successive governments"
- Aoife Moore

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