Rob Delaney goes viral with thread about Brexit and austerity aimed at people who say ‘both sides suck’
Catastrophe star Rob Delaney went viral today with this thread about Brexit and austerity.
A vocal critic of cuts to public services in the UK, the actor and comedian’s two-year-old son Henry died last year after being diagnosed with a brain tumour.
Here’s what he had to say on Twitter.
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Hi I’m a dues paying member of @UKLabour & I hope to one day be a citizen so I can vote for them in a GE since they care about the NHS, social care, education & ppl w disabilities. I am almost physically sick watching smart ppl say “both sides suck.”
— rob delaney (@robdelaney) March 13, 2019
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Glad most haven’t walked in my shoes but when I saw what Tories CHOSE to do to poor families with kids in hospital & social care as our own son was disabled & then killed by brain cancer, I grew angry & I remain angry. Tories kill, again and again, by cuts & closures.
— rob delaney (@robdelaney) March 13, 2019
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A version of fucking Brexit has ALREADY HAPPENED to the poor, elderly & disabled in this country. Tory austerity has pissed on them, devalued their lives & left them to literally die.
— rob delaney (@robdelaney) March 13, 2019
4.
I don’t want to be doing this! I’m on TV. I should be destroying my marriage with cocaine & getting caught jet-skiing in Adele’s pool. But at the exact same time I was becoming successful, God dropped me smack among some beautiful, poor, sick kids, my own little buddy included.
— rob delaney (@robdelaney) March 13, 2019
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At the same time I saw beautiful, shining, glorious children dying in pain, I’d see their social care packages (often illegally) be cut, further ruining the parents’ already tattered lives. Austerity kills. I saw it & I’ll never forget.
— rob delaney (@robdelaney) March 13, 2019
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I am so grateful for the GIFT of my disabled family & friends opening my eyes and heart to such beauty and strength. I will fight for them until I die and if you get in my way I will shred you, with love.
— rob delaney (@robdelaney) March 13, 2019
And just a few examples of how people responded.
As a doctor in the NHS I am thankful for the health of the nation that the NHS provides. It is such a precious wonderful gift.
Can we keep you and send Rees-Mogg and Boris to Trumpland please?
We are completely in love with you ❤️
— Dr Shrilla Banerjee MD FRCP (@ShrillaB) March 13, 2019
An important thread https://t.co/zwI9jg7EmC
— Aditya Chakrabortty (@chakrabortty) March 13, 2019
I love you Rob
— keewa (@keewa) March 13, 2019
You don’t have to be ecstatic with Labour’s handling of Brexit to think the ‘oh they’re as bad as each other!’ takes are insultingly class and disabled blind. This thread puts it achingly well: https://t.co/WAnimcLQXj
— Frances Ryan (@DrFrancesRyan) March 13, 2019
Thank you, Rob. It’s been so difficult to see high profile people I usually admire seemingly not understand that working people NEED a labour government. It’s not hyperbolic to say this is a life and death situation for many people in the UK.
— mahalia (@mahaliajuliana) March 13, 2019
this thread expresses a lot of what animates the fury that I tamp down on a daily basis so I can function in society https://t.co/qRXmkZsa8S
— riles (@raaleh) March 13, 2019
Thanks for this Rob! ✊Not enough people with your profile seem to say this! I can’t believe people still think tories are the best option
— Han (@han2thet) March 13, 2019
Loads of us want to vote for @UKLabour but find it almost impossible to do with JC in charge. It doesn’t mean we’ll vote Tory, but a vote for anyone else essentially is a Conservative vote so we’re buggered. Put Yvette Cooper in charge and it’ll be a landslide.
— Joe Bolton (@joebolton) March 13, 2019
Oh, and …
But they do both suck. Brexit is killing us and Labour are currently supporting it.
— Leighton Williams (@legwill) March 13, 2019
