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4 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
When they're not demonizing minorities, scapegoating the Left (who haven't been in power for over a decade) or fueling a polarizing culture war, it's almost as if the divisive @Conservatives really don't give a shit about the 'united' in United Kingdom...

theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/m…
Grotesquely wealthy neoliberal butcher Fishy Rishi Sunak will CUT the £20/week universal credit uplift later this year, plunging half a million MORE already vulnerable people into #poverty.

The uplift to Universal Credit has cost around £6billion in the financial year 2020/21.
However, the UC uplift accounts for just 2.7% of the roughly £300billion the Treasury has spent on schemes designed to support the finances of people & businesses through the pandemic, while since 2009, the wealth of the RICHEST 1,000 UK people INCREASED by nearly £500 billion.🤬
Resolution Foundation: removing the uplift 'would see level of unemployment support fall to its lowest real-terms level since 1990-91, & ITS LOWEST EVER relative to average earnings' (just over 12%).

CAB: 75% of claimants would be UNABLE TO AFFORD THE BASICS, up from 43% now.

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5 Mar
#Journalists - please find time to mention:

In 2009, the combined wealth of the UK's top 1,000 was £258 billion.

By 2020 it was £742.6 billion.

Therefore, the combined wealth of the UK's richest 1,000 has INCREASED by £484.6 billion since 2009.

SOURCE: Sunday Times Rich List. ImageImage
ON TOP of the £200 billion cost of #Brexit, Rishi Sunak says the £280 billion in #coronavirus relief & tax cuts have produced "enormous strains" on the economy.

*COINCIDENTALLY*, since 2009, the wealth of Britain's richest 1,000 individuals has increased by around £480 billion. Image
In pre-#COVID April 2019 - March 2020, approximately 1.9 million people used a UK foodbank - 300,000 more than the previous year.

The number of foodbank users has increased in every year, from just under 26,000 in 2008/09.

There are now over 2,000 food banks in the UK. Image
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5 Mar
ON TOP of the £200 billion cost of #Brexit, Rishi Sunak says the £280 billion in #coronavirus relief & tax cuts have produced "enormous strains" on the economy,

*COINCIDENTALLY*, since 2009, the wealth of Britain's richest 1,000 individuals has increased by around £480 billion.
Sunday Times Rich List:

The combined wealth of the UK's top 1,000 was £258 billion in 2009.

In 2020 “the total wealth shared by all 1,000 entries has fallen by 3.7% to £742.6 billion".

Therefore, the combined wealth of UK's richest 1,000 INCREASED by £484.6 billion since 2009. Image
In pre-COVID 2019/20, approximately 1.9 million people used a UK foodbank - 300,000 more than the previous year. The number of foodbank users has increased in every year, from just under 26,000 in 2008/09.

There are now over 2,000 food banks in the UK.

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A THREAD on 'masks', & the growing polarization that is harming all of us.

We urgently need to develop effective ways to reduce divisions, & claw back common courtesy & decency.

There's no quick fix.

It requires all of us to take responsibility for what we say & write.
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They are used to entertain, frighten, disguise and protect.

Masks can also be used to foster the emergence of new identities. Image
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In 1850, 95% of the goods the average American used were self-manufactured & 5% purchased. By 1950 the equation was more than reversed. Why?

Cory Wimberley’s important & timely book ‘How #Propaganda Became Public Relations’ provides sophisticated answers.
blog.apaonline.org/2020/07/06/rec…
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1 Mar
The @Conservatives know that their cynical & inflammatory culture war is not just divisive, but extremely dangerous.

The head of Historic England says employees have received many threats.

The unhinged Tories & their media backers are going full Trump.

theguardian.com/p/ghb95/stw
Last year, Britain’s top lawyers wrote to Priti Patel to express their concern after a man with a large knife entered a London law firm & launched a “violent, racist attack” was said to be directly motivated by Patel's irresponsible comments.

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Since 2018, Europol, the FBI & MI5 have all said that FAR RIGHT TERROR PLOTS ARE MULTIPLYING FASTER THAN ISLAMIST ONES, yet a #PREVENT review is to be led by grotesque hard-right crank William Shawcross, who describes gay rights & climate change as "PC".

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Shawcross adores #Murdoch, & has written of a “vast fifth column” of Muslims in Europe who “wish to destroy us”.

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