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How much of a coward do you have to be to ignore urgent pressing issues like the CoL crisis choosing instead to focus on rewarding cronies and sychophants for 13 years of Tory misrule?
Rishi Sunak reportedly set to accept Boris Johnson’s honours list theguardian.com/politics/2023/…
Rishi Sunak reportedly set to accept Boris Johnson’s honours list theguardian.com/politics/2023/…
The moment Sunak awakes and opens his eyes, its wrong, getting dressed is wrong, taking jets and helicopters to appointments is wrong, not investigating billions of tax payers money lost to Covid fraud is wrong, being elected by Tory members and not the public is wrong. #GTTONow
Sunak is an oligarch, he studied at Stanford, his mentor was Prof.Paul Romer, a libertarian advocate of charter cities, these monsters want to escape democracy and install private corporate governance in enclaves beyond big Govt reach, to do this you need money and power. #Brexit
This🧵will examine the r/w ultra libertarian James Buchanan’s legacy and why the left seem unaware of the damage being wrought on the UK by the IEA/ERG Tories who are actively installing his obscene views as policies to annihilate the welfare state. truthout.org/articles/misin…
@NancyMacLean5 'Buchanan supplied an operational strategy to vanquish the model of government they had been criticising for decades — and prevent it from being recreated. It was Buchanan who taught Koch that for capitalism to thrive, democracy must be enchained'.
Buchanan baulked at FDR's New Deal, a social contract of 30-40 years of egalitarian economics; provide Relief to the poor, Recovery of economy & Reform of financial system to prevent a depression.
We need the 3 'R's for post Brexit UK and as fitting slogans for Labour's campaign
We need the 3 'R's for post Brexit UK and as fitting slogans for Labour's campaign
Are people aware that Boris Johnson amended the Ministerial Code? (meaning that ministers who breach the Code will no longer be automatically expected to resign).
Instead of rule of law, there will be rule by law...
#GTTONow
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Instead of rule of law, there will be rule by law...
#GTTONow
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Judicial Review and Courts Bill will prevent citizens from being able to challenge how Govt implements and interprets the law. Parliament passes Act in order to render a previously unlawful decision of the executive lawful would radically change the optics of the balance of power
Seismic 'corrections' to the Judiciary under a far right privately elected Tory Party should chill people to the bone. Remember 'lefty judges, lefty laws' topping the headlines? The Tories are remaking post Brexit UK in their own libertarian image.
Just about every part of our country is crumbling and in a state of wild disrepair, but the Tories, whenever asked, simply ask you not to believe your own eyes & ears. Disregard your personal experiences because all is well and getting better. #GTTONow 1/
Doctors - GPs - are in crisis. I know GPs as close personal friends who, having qualified recently regret their career choices & they are looking at other options. I know student doctors in their penultimate year who are getting ready to work in the financial sector instead. 2/20
Roads - too dangerous to drive on, jarring collisions with deep holes and cracks. Nothing speaks more honestly of what the Tories have done than the state of the roads. Utter neglect and decay. While billions have been wasted on pet projects and backhanded to mates. 3/20
UK citizens, you are in serious trouble, the libertarian right have successfully implemented their ideology as cold hard fact in the form of austerity as policy choice. You have a few months to force a GE or the UK will officially become a totalitarian rogue state. I'm not joking
Capital accumulation has become an extortion racket, when GDP becomes an unbalanced system of wealth redistribution privileging the investor class over low to middle income earners it is singularly dangerous to stable democracies. Disaster capitalism thrives on chaos and disorder
Deregulation under the guise of patriotism and sovereignty was the key for the UK's libertarian exit from democracy (Brexit). The Tories plan is to eventually force people to work for the private sector once the welfare state and the entire public sector has been dismantled.
Disaster capitalism in action. This is precisely why Shell left the Netherlands to set up shop in deregulated post Brexit UK.
Libertarianism is incompatible with democracy.
Shell makes record $40bn in profits on back of surging gas prices theguardian.com/business/2023/…
Libertarianism is incompatible with democracy.
Shell makes record $40bn in profits on back of surging gas prices theguardian.com/business/2023/…
Bill-payers appalled oil giants Shell are still seeing sky-high profits. Instead of re-investing those profits in the transition to net zero, they’re spending billions on enriching their own shareholders and executives, announcing a further £3.2bn of share buybacks this morning.
The sheer scale of that transfer of wealth - from bill-payers to shareholders - is inexcusable and demands action from the government.
The Govt should fairly tax these share buybacks to raise hundreds of millions for the exchequer, but you know profit is God...#GTTONow
The Govt should fairly tax these share buybacks to raise hundreds of millions for the exchequer, but you know profit is God...#GTTONow
Liars and thieves continue to prop up performative wins when the hard truth is absolute carnage of UK infrastructure on all fronts. #BrexitDisaster
Watchdog reprimands Tories over £800bn post-Brexit trade deals claim theguardian.com/politics/2022/…
Watchdog reprimands Tories over £800bn post-Brexit trade deals claim theguardian.com/politics/2022/…
Tories will not fess up, Labour will not mitigate the damage with common sense approaches like realigning with the EU. The UK has been kidnapped by disaster capitalists, xenophobes, racists and radical right libertarians under the guise of patriotism. What a fucking mess.
The worst is yet to come, 31st Dec REUL Bill sunsets 4000 EU laws in 1 fell swoop, no country has ever done this in world history. Employment rights, food safety, environmental laws, all protections abolished, transition phase mean corporate fascism for UK
Poverty and children - a short thread: I work in schools with children who are at risk of being excluded from mainstream education. A high proportion of these children share similar personal circumstances, which may include the follows (frequent overlaps): 1/20
Domestic abuse, violence and conflict in the home or they had fled such circumstances. The ongoing relationship in such situations then include the problem of a toxic parent(s) with a damaging influence; 2/20
Low socio-economic-status - being low family income, a view of the work place being a negative and oppressive experience and being persistently treated in society as a second class citizen because their family lacks presentation, prestige or social gravitas or contacts; 3/20
Warning. Hunt's tax includes loopholes to incentivise energy firms to invest in new fossil fuel infrastructure, keeping 73% of the profits that they would have made had it not been implemented. Private interests own Govt and your very lives. #GTTONow
bylinetimes.com/2022/11/24/fos…
bylinetimes.com/2022/11/24/fos…
Hunt to increase health and education budgets in the run up to the GE. This will mean significant real-terms cuts to the public sector in the coming years. Add Brexit deregulation of +4,000 EU laws and real pain for the majority of citizens is coming fast.
bylinetimes.com/2022/11/17/all…
bylinetimes.com/2022/11/17/all…
This vile money sucking Govt want to batter, humiliate and kill its own citizens, their contempt for the public sector is stealthily planned but the impacts will be viscerally felt across the entire welfare state. R/w #Libertarian policies are a weaponized disease of democracy.
Trade peace not trade war. Free trade zealots, the real operators behind Brexit despise protectionism and Govt intervention. Disorder and chaos, a manufactured recession, the UK relegated to a capital hungry economy now signals it's desperation for venture capitalists to seize on
The IMF, WTO, World Bank are focused on commitments to r/w libertarian ideology, the Govt in thrall to this enforces austerity as actual policy, on the back of national and international crises. Why? To lure dubious investors into a deregulated free market economy. #Libertarian
The UK under these conditions cannot defend itself from malign private interests, the only way #Brexit actually functions is to underscore corporate hegemony/bullying and the myth of trickle down economics, perpetuated for generations. #GeneralElectionN0W #GTTONow
People in 'in-work poverty' using food banks; nurses, teaching assistants, factory workers, retail assistants, delivery drivers and hospitality workers.
This far right Govt despise their own citizens. Austerity as policy choice.
#Libertarian #GTTONow
theguardian.com/society/2022/n…
This far right Govt despise their own citizens. Austerity as policy choice.
#Libertarian #GTTONow
theguardian.com/society/2022/n…
Tories are crippling the public sector to force people to work in the private sector for less money, with no Union representation and with zero rights and protections. These tactics are actual choices fueled by Brexit deregulation that are reconfiguring the UK to a rogue state.
Everything most people care about, support for health, social care, education, justice, and the environment is the polar opposite of Tory policy making, this is the radical rights ideological agenda made flesh. #EnoughIsEnough #GeneralElectionN0W
theguardian.com/business/2022/…
theguardian.com/business/2022/…
+26 Tory MP's charged with, rape, physical assault, drug use, embezzlement, watching porn at HoC, paedophilia, breach of lobbying and social distancing rules, driving offences, groping, serious misconduct, cover ups/exerting undue influence in court cases, tax evasion #GTTONow
Context on these criminals. Ayn Rand (1905) was a writer who left🇷🇺for US in 1926, she escaped communism but substituted it for far right libertarian views. Sunak is a huge fan of her. Rand advocated empowering the state via police and judiciary to protect individual property>
Rand's free market ideology became a benchmark for libertarian attacks on the state which we are seeing rightg now from the Tories. Sovereignty has been 'restructured' (Rees-Mogg) to favour private interests and corporate rule beyond interference of big Govt.
