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29 Apr, 6 tweets, 7 min read
*HOW MANY ROLLS OF DOWNING ST WALLPAPER?*

UK's richest 1,000 wealth increase since 2009:

571 MILLION💰💰💰

Crony contracts given to Tory donors:

2.4 MILLION 💰💰

Investment in Andrew Neil's #GBeebies:

71,428💰

Average additional annual income from nurse pay rise:

0.4 +👏
The wallpaper cost £840 a roll.

#NHS nurses will receive a pay increase worth less than half a roll of Downing St wallpaper this year – despite their heroics in guiding the country through a deadly pandemic resulting in 150,000 largely avoidable deaths.

thelondoneconomic.com/news/nurses-pa…
#GBeebies investors may be more interested in #INFLUENCE than financial return: £60 MILLION was raised with help from Libertarian billionaires #Cato's John Malone & #Legatum's Christopher Chandler, & hedge funder Paul Marshall who bet big on #Brexit chaos.
Almost £2 BILLION in #COVID contracts have been given to "friends & donors" of the corrupt @Conservatives Party.

#ToryLiars
#TorySleaze
#ToryCronyism
#ToryCriminals
#ToryCorruption

news.sky.com/story/covid-19…
#Brexit has cost Britain £200 BILLION (so far) & thanks to our free-market obsessed Government, #coronavirus a further £280 BILLION (so far).

According to the Sunday Times Rich List, between 2009 & 2020, the wealth of Britain's richest 1,000 people increased by £480 BILLION. 🤬
And we know that around $30 TRILLION is hoarded offshore by the grotesquely rich bastards who now own or control most of Britain's media, Britain's ruling political Party, & Britain's national assets, & who are busy replacing our fragile #democracy with a free market #dystopia.

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#Everyone concerned about the capture of institutions, news media, & political parties by Libertarian billionaires has a moral duty to research the collection of extraordinarily powerful free market think tanks grouped under the 'Atlas Network'.

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The Atlas Network has "reshaped political power in country after country," operating as an extension of USA foreign policy", with Atlas-affiliated think tanks receiving funding from the US Department of State and the National Endowment for Democracy.

It's worse than you think.
The Atlas Network's methods include providing grants for new think tanks, courses on political management & PR, sponsorship of networking events around the world, & encouraging libertarians to influence public opinion through social media & online #videos suspiciously like these:
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28 Apr
I'd never heard of Boris Johnson's senior advisor & one of Carrie Symond's "favourite people" 'chatty rat' Henry Newman, but I've been looking at Andrew Neil's connections to the Orbán regime, &, well, 'it's a small world'...

#THREAD on the Hungarian & British hard right elite.
In 2018, Andrew Neil chaired the #Project28 opinion poll based research event for Viktor Orban's 'Think Tank' the Századvég Foundation - basically the propaganda wing of Fidesz party, set up to spread xenophobia, islamophobia & antisemitism across the EU.

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Andrew Neil Chaired the event, but let's take a look at the other speakers.

First up, keynote speaker & Fidesz party MEP József Szájer, who discussed the #Project28 'findings', basically that the EU population had lost their confidence in their ability to influence leaders.
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27 Apr
#THREAD on the (surely?) ironically named 'The New Culture Forum' - yet ANOTHER shit-stirring-hard-right-free-market-obsessed-anti-woke-#55TuftonStreet-based-think-tank, featuring all the usual suspects, & founded by idiosyncratic Brextremist ex-ukipper, Peter Whittle.
Whittle is founder & director of the 'New Culture Forum' think tank, & host of the right wing @YouTube show 'So What You're Saying Is...' -imagine a kind of self-help group/show for the "silenced" (🤪) 'stars' of the unhinged Libertarian wing of the anti-woke mob.
The New Culture Forum is part of the gang at 55 Tufton St, which since the 2010s has hosted free-market hard-right lobby groups, a group of which, dubbed "THE NINE ENTITIES"😳, use the building for biweekly meetings to coordinate policy & public messages.

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'Both serious conflict in the home - for example, tension, verbal arguments or physical violence - and severe financial difficulties experienced during childhood, significantly predict various health problems in adulthood: physical, mental, and social.'

theconversation.com/how-a-difficul…
The impact was exacerbated if people had experienced both conflict and financial difficulties in childhood.

People who had difficult childhoods are more likely to binge drink, smoke, have a poor diet and tend to be less active – often engaging in sedentary behaviour.
25% of the survey respondents had experienced financial strain or conflict during their childhood. This means that one in four adults in Europe could be at increased risk of developing health problems due to these types of adversity.
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#THREAD about Boris Johnson, dead bodies, Brexit, & Andrew Neil's TV Channel & power.

The news is full of claims that last year, Boris Johnson said “No more fucking lockdowns: let the bodies pile high in their thousands”, which our sociopathic Govt dismissed as "comedy gossip".
Boris Johnson, 2017: "I look at Libya... There's a group of UK business people... want to invest in Sirte on the coast... They have got a brilliant vision to turn Sirte into the next Dubai. The only thing they have got to do is clear the dead bodies away!"
The speech was given to the #Legatum Institute (originally registered in Cayman Islands) a well-funded free-market think-tank specializing in disaster #capitalism, which in 2016, jointly sponsored a report called 'The Road to Brexit'. The foreword was penned by Iain Duncan Smith.
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Many accounts excited about the #LondonProtest are sharing links & memes that make unusual claims about COVID & vaccines, from something called the "Daily Expose".

@FullFact adresses their claim that just 3,000 people have died from #COVID19 in Britain.

fullfact.org/online/daily-e…
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@PolitiFact rate this claim 'false'.

politifact.com/factchecks/202…
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mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-daily-expo…
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