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Marina Purkiss Profile picture
@MarinaPurkiss
Jul 30, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
How am I just learning of the INSANE control Murdoch has over UK Politics?

Have a look at this...

- Murdoch papers (News Corp) backed Conservatives all the way

- Then John Major refused to bend to Murdoch's demands on EU policy

- So News Corp flips to back Blair - Blair Wins
- Blair and Murdoch are very chummy FYI (Blair is Godfather to his daughter no less)

- Gordon Brown takes over from Blair, but Murdoch doesn't fancy him much, perhaps he's not quite so malleable

- So News Corp flips back to Tory and backs Cameron - Cameron wins
- Turns our Cameron is very malleable

- Cameron's wife is bezzies with Rebecca Brooks and his spin doctor is Andy Coulson (both now-disgraced names from the News of the World phone-hacking scandal)

- Fast-forward to now & Murdoch is playing Boris like a puppet
Did you know?

- Just 72 hours after the 2019 General Election result was announced, Murdoch and Boris met

- 3 meetings between Murdoch and the Government in Johnson’s first 6 months as PM

- 42 meetings between Murdoch's people and Johnson’s administration in his 1st 6 months
And the last Gov was just as bad:

- 5 personal meetings between Rupert Murdoch & Ministers 2018-19

Everything is broken

Corruption lives at the top.

And it's so powerful it's deciding how we vote.

ENDS

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Dec 20, 2022
In the wake of Jeremy Clarkson’s depravity…

In a climate where we see 1 woman killed ever 3 days in this country at the hands of a man…

Piers Morgan has invited the world’s most famous misogynist onto his show.

Utterly vile @piersmorgan
For those of you who don’t know…

Here’s a bit more about Piers’ guest tonight:

He says “women belong in the home, can’t drive, & are a man’s property”

He thinks rape victims must “bear responsibility” for their attacks and…
He dates women aged 18–19 because he can “make an imprint” on them

A desperate new low for @piersmorgan

amp.theguardian.com/technology/202…
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Marina Purkiss Profile picture
Sep 15, 2022
This is billionaire former banker & Tory Lord, Michael Spencer

He donated £25k to Truss’ leadership bid

He’s asked to name a Brexit benefit

Hear what he says

…then remember the new Govt policy announced this week to remove the cap on bankers’ bonuses

What can I say?

This is what buying Govt policy looks like…

I don’t know how much more obvious it can be

They’re so brazen they don’t even bother to hide it

And of all the benefits we were promised

…that’s the one he named

…and that’s the one he got.
Also…

£25k from a billionaire

He just bought Govt policy for the relative price of buying a Twix.
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Aug 5, 2022
In the latest edition of ‘privatisation of utilities is utterly scandalous’…

I bring you

WATER

Billions in profits

Billions to shareholders

Meanwhile…

Their dodgy pipes leak almost 2.4bn litres of water every day

Not a single reservoir built in S.England since 1976…
Yet they’re introducing a hosepipe ban with fines of up to £1k

Also…

They’re deliberately dumping billions of litres of sewage into rivers & coastal waters

So what’s our Govt doing about it?

Nothing

Worse than nothing

Encouraging it…
The Govt enforcement budget to stop/punish polluting was cut by 80%

Meaning there is no punishment

In 2007-8, the number of prosecutions reached a peak of nearly 800

By 2020-21, just 17

Yet another massive scandal - pioneered by Thatcher

The role model for our 2 PM hopefuls.
Read 4 tweets
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Sep 23, 2021
8 handy points to note about our ‘green’ PM:

1) He has “almost always voted against measures to prevent climate change”

2) He supported shale gas fracking & told readers of his column to “ignore doom merchants” worried about emissions
3) He declared thousands in donations from Michael Hintze & Terence Mordaunt who fund the climate science sceptic ‘Global Warming Policy Foundation’

4) He called wind farms “white satanic mills”
5) He held back a report on the impact of air pollution on deprived schools which could have reduced traffic & improved air quality

6) He said he would “lie down in front of bulldozers” to prevent a third Heathrow

…and then was absent for the vote
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Sep 11, 2021
This is grim

So we’ve got the Elections Bill to ‘protect democracy’

When actually it does the opposite

It attacks it

And now we have this…

The Govt’s new “UK data protection regime”

It doesn’t protect

It attacks

These 6 chilling terms are hidden in the proposal…
1. We will be made to pay to exercise our data rights & access our data

2. It scraps data protection in one blow - meaning companies no longer have to get us to tick a box to collect our data - they’ll just take it

3. We will no longer be asked whether we want to be tracked
4. Govt will bring the ICO (the watchdog that exists to protect our rights) under Govt control

5. Companies will be free to shred evidence of wrongdoing

6. If there’s a data breach - companies may no longer even need to notify anyone

And this is supposed to PROTECT us?
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Mar 21, 2021
Have a look at this sea of old white dudes

85 dukes, earls & barons

46% of them Eton educated

All of them hereditary peers who vote on our laws

They didn’t earn their positions

Nope

In this increasingly ridiculous country...

IT’S SIMPLY THEIR BIRTHRIGHT TO RULE
They also cost the taxpayer £47m in expenses claimed since 2001

But are they worth it?

That will be a HARD NO

“The average hereditary has spoken in the chamber just 50 times in the past five years”

thetimes.co.uk/article/reveal…
I liked this bit too...

“When they do speak, they are 60% more likely to mention business or personal interest”

COURSE THEY DO
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