Thread by @ragnorakishere

@IanAustinMP @CaraPac46808618 @GnasherJew "Austerity Britain was in breach of four UN human rights agreements relating to women, children, disabled people and economic and social rights."

@IanAustinMP @CaraPac46808618 @GnasherJew "The limit on benefits payments to only the first two children in a family was “in the same ballpark” as China’s one-child policy because it punished people who had a third child."

@IanAustinMP @CaraPac46808618 @GnasherJew "The UK government has inflicted “great misery” on its people with “punitive, mean-spirited, and often callous” austerity policies driven by a political desire to undertake social re-engineering rather than economic necessity."

@IanAustinMP @CaraPac46808618 @GnasherJew He highlighted the chancellor’s decision in this month’s budget to give a tax cut to the rich rather than using that money to alleviate poverty for millions, adding: “Austerity could easily have spared the poor, if the political will had existed to do so.”

@IanAustinMP @CaraPac46808618 @GnasherJew "Social Engineering". Sounds like Nazi Germany, China under Mao and Early Russian Communism. There are many ways to rid a society of so called "Undesirables" It seems "Austerity Measures" gave the desired results and they were condemned by the United Nations".

@IanAustinMP @CaraPac46808618 @GnasherJew Excerpt from the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. (a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;.

@IanAustinMP @CaraPac46808618 @GnasherJew The following are genocidal acts when committed as part of a policy to destroy a group’s existence:

@IanAustinMP @CaraPac46808618 @GnasherJew "Deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to destroy a group includes the deliberate deprivation of resources needed for the group’s physical survival, such as clean water, food, clothing, shelter or medical services. Deprivation of the means to sustain life."

@IanAustinMP @CaraPac46808618 @GnasherJew Some might consider the comparison of "Austerity" to acts of "Genocide" as tenuous but the policy targeted the most vulnerable in the UK The Unemployed, Low Income Families, People with Disabilities. Benefit sanctions killed people!

@IanAustinMP @CaraPac46808618 @GnasherJew If, we were victors in a war similar to the conflict with Nazi Germany and we were examining the implementation of "Sparpolitik" we might consider it a crime against humanity.

@IanAustinMP @CaraPac46808618 @GnasherJew So if a policy has been demonstrated to inflict misery and ultimately death on a group of people and the United Nations UN’s rapporteur identified it had done so. Should the people who imposed that policy not be held to account? @upsadaizy @xpressanny @threadreaderapp Unroll

@IanAustinMP @CaraPac46808618 @GnasherJew @upsadaizy @xpressanny @threadreaderapp When people deliberately impose a policy that inflicts misery and death on people, and they are proven to be complicit in its implementation then they should be held to account @SkyeCitySeries