“When speaking at public rallies, while canvassing votes for himself or his party, Modi works in the polemical mode, loudly mocking his rivals in an ever-increasing cascade of insults”
Modi, Johnson, Trump & Bolsanaro all cut from the same loutish cloth
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Modi, Johnson, Trump & Bolsanaro all cut from the same loutish cloth
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Gross domestic product contracted by 23.9 per cent between April and June 2020. By some estimates, more than 100m people had lost their jobs.
That’s the consequence of relying on gut instincts over expertise.
Politicising the civil service & the diplomatic Corps & a lapdog MSM
That’s the consequence of relying on gut instincts over expertise.
Politicising the civil service & the diplomatic Corps & a lapdog MSM
Remember him announcing, in November 2016, that 500 & 1,000 rupee notes (amounting to 86% of the value of currency in circulation) would be rendered unusable in four hours’ time?
He did the same over the first lockdown on 24/3/20 with zero planning for the jobless, stranded
He did the same over the first lockdown on 24/3/20 with zero planning for the jobless, stranded
In the 1st wave “some experts had claimed that India would be ravaged by the virus, with several hundred million people being affected; but when the number turned out to be far fewer, they were scolded by our prickly patriots.”
“Our drains are not filled with bodies, our hospitals have not run out of beds,” wrote one prominent Delhi editor. “Our crematoriums & graveyards are not out of wood or space. There is not even a cricket field-sized sliver of India anywhere that might resemble the Spanish ‘flu”
The infectious disease experts were right. Infectious diseases infect and now India’s
📌hospitals have not run out of beds
📌they have run out of oxygen
📌crematorium fire plates have melted due to over use
📌 graveyards and funeral pyres are out of wood and space
📌hospitals have not run out of beds
📌they have run out of oxygen
📌crematorium fire plates have melted due to over use
📌 graveyards and funeral pyres are out of wood and space
Had they spent more time and expertise in the first wave ensuring that disease was accurately identified and deaths truthfully counted then the urgent necessity of preparing for the second wave would have been more compelling.
As it is the dead literally do not count to the Gov.
As it is the dead literally do not count to the Gov.
For me that is the final insult.
Your Government cares so little for you or for truth that it cannot be arsed to put in place systems to ensure that when you die an honest account of that death will be made.
Literally You will not count
Your Government cares so little for you or for truth that it cannot be arsed to put in place systems to ensure that when you die an honest account of that death will be made.
Literally You will not count
Yet, at the beginning of this year Modi, who has done so much harm, remained very popular. 70% in the polls.
How could that be?
This sounds awfully familiar.
“How does one explain this disjunction between performance and popularity?”
How could that be?
This sounds awfully familiar.
“How does one explain this disjunction between performance and popularity?”
“One reason...is that his ideology of Hindu majoritarianism is widely shared by voters, particularly in the populous states of northern India. The BJP has been especially successful in getting lower-caste Hindus into their fold, by offering them cultural superiority over Muslims”
The Indian MSM has played its shameful part.
So has a supine Supreme Court, refusing to protect individual liberties and minority rights, insensitive to savage repression of dissent by the state.
Pay attention.
That is what Johnson seeks to deliver here
So has a supine Supreme Court, refusing to protect individual liberties and minority rights, insensitive to savage repression of dissent by the state.
Pay attention.
That is what Johnson seeks to deliver here
“Modi is a bigot & megalomaniac”
As the funeral pyres burn in their hundreds of thousands Modi goes ahead with his architectural vanity project.
Johnson spends £14k on wallpaper alone & wrangles for a year over who should pay the £200k bill for redecorating the private quarters
As the funeral pyres burn in their hundreds of thousands Modi goes ahead with his architectural vanity project.
Johnson spends £14k on wallpaper alone & wrangles for a year over who should pay the £200k bill for redecorating the private quarters
In India each certificate of vaccination carries a portrait of Modi. One Indian posted a photo of his certificate with the sarcastic line: “Sir Modi jee knows what to do, when to do, how to do”.
A too little, too late woefully inadequate vaccination programme.
A too little, too late woefully inadequate vaccination programme.
Another commentator was more brutal, tweeting: “Just as there is a photo of Modi on the vaccine certificate, there should also be a photo of Modi on the death certificate of those killed by Covid.”
Now that’s a thought.
Now that’s a thought.
Superb essay from @Ram_Guha - and free to read.
Link broke again!
A few more killer quotes ..especially about death certificates!
Very apposite re Johnson too.
A few more killer quotes ..especially about death certificates!
Very apposite re Johnson too.
https://twitter.com/fascinatorfun/status/1388467068392062978
As others have pointed out Orban should be added to the list of vile populists with 2857 Covid deaths per million (U.K. bad enough with 2272 per million. 1 in every 440 U.K. citizens)
Just seen this via @andrew_croxford
Makes me so sad
And makes me so mad.
What’s the harm in playing safe? Why could the Government not play safe instead of jumping the gun?
Makes me so sad
And makes me so mad.
What’s the harm in playing safe? Why could the Government not play safe instead of jumping the gun?
https://twitter.com/andrew_croxford/status/1388517082820714497
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