Free market capitalists INSISTED on the free movement of cheap labour - then they scapegoated migrants.
They INSISTED on deregulating the financial system - then WE bailed out the banks.
They then INSISTED on #austerity, which punished the poor, & made the rich even richer.
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They INSISTED on deregulating the financial system - then WE bailed out the banks.
They then INSISTED on #austerity, which punished the poor, & made the rich even richer.
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Since 2009, while we've endured a decade of stagnated wages, & declining living conditions & public services, according to the Times Rich List, the wealth of the richest 1,000 people in Britain - who fund the Tories - has INCREASED by a staggering £480 BILLION.
#StopVotingTory
#StopVotingTory
We've had FORTY YEARS of this. Fewer than 3 in 10 of the electorate voted Tory in 2019, but because they've invested in & now pretty much own & control the news media narrative, through which they manufacture 'consent' to govern, they KEEP getting elected.
https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1359445197113950208
‘Democracy, which was once a way of holding elites accountable, has become, in the new world of globalization, a means of keeping elites in power by dividing their domestic enemies’ - Shipman, Edmunds & Turner, 'The New Power Elite' (2018).
Frederick Douglass (1817 - 1895) was a very wise American social reformer, abolitionist, & statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement, becoming famous for his fabulous oratory & incisive antislavery writings.
#BlackLivesMatter
#BlackLivesMatter
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