What the 'culture war' is for:
40 years of years deregulation & free-market policies, compounded by a decade of #austerity, means almost EVERYONE is worse off: while the rich are MUCH richer, we have a poverty & housing crisis, broken public services, & low paid insecure work.
40 years of years deregulation & free-market policies, compounded by a decade of #austerity, means almost EVERYONE is worse off: while the rich are MUCH richer, we have a poverty & housing crisis, broken public services, & low paid insecure work.
After FORTY YEARS, all that the right-wing free-market ideologues have left is to distract & divide us by relentlessly provoking outrage over tenuous stories about statues, race, gender, & flags, which keep us constantly distracted from the reality of much more pressing issues.
If @UKLabour & the Left are serious about creating a fairer, greener society, we have to stop talking to each other, & take the argument to THE MOST right-wing constituencies, & SPELL OUT not only what the Tories have done to them, but also EXACTLY how we're going to fix it.
Since 2009, the wealth of Britain's richest 1,000 people, at least 60 of whom fund the @Conservatives (in return for ?) has increased by £480 BILLION.
In 2019, a homeless man was jailed for 20 weeks for sitting on the ground "without reasonable excuse".
somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/17635664.…
In 2019, a homeless man was jailed for 20 weeks for sitting on the ground "without reasonable excuse".
somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/17635664.…
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