Dr Clare Craig ✝️

When I was at the @Togetherdec conference at the weekend, a stranger asked, as a polite conversation starter, "what do you do?" It got me thinking about what led me to join Together and to think back over all of the things I've got angry about over the years, both online and offline. 💣Foreign wars 🇪🇺The EU 💷High tax and high government spending 🔒COVID lockdowns 🦠COVID vaccines 💉Vaccines in general 0⃣Net Zero ⛔️ULEZ and Low Traffic Neighbourhoods 🪪Digital ID 💀State organised euthanasia 🍞Folic acid in flour It's quite a varied list. But running through it there's one clear thread: government over-reach*. Government getting too large, doing too much, in too many areas, getting too involved, in matters that shouldn't concern it, and generally making things worse. In one instance the government involved wasn't even our government. So: to answer the stranger who asked me "what I do": I campaign against government overreach. I campaign to be left alone. (*There is one item that's missing from that list which I've also spent a lot of time campaigning about: immigration control. It's the only example of government underreach I can think of. When it comes to controlling our borders, government suddenly forgets its normal instincts to wade in and intervene. It not only doesn't control our borders, it actively ensures they are porous. But only for undesirables and illegals. The queues are long and winding and tortuous for the law-abiding 🙄).

Whenever a big story hits the front pages and gets wall-to-wall coverage, a good question to ask is: "what other news is happening right now that's more deserving of wall-to-wall coverage but has been pushed off the front pages?" ⬇️