Most of us accept that it's entirely sensible to get vaccinated against #COVID19 & to keep new variations under control.
While there are legitimate concerns over lockdowns, anti-vaxxers, & those who believe COVID is 'a hoax', are among the most dangerous fools on earth.
Yet our dysfunctional Govt & PM blather about 'common sense' & refuse to condemn them, having repeatedly failed to take decisive action to control the virus.
We've know about the #IndianVariant since February, but action wasn't taken until late April - & STILL flights arrive!
When combined with a decade of unnecessary ideological austerity, outsourcing, privatisation, & real-terms cuts of 25% since 2015/16 to our #NHS, it is *crystal clear* that these corrupt free-market obsessed criminals are directly responsible for 130,000 largely avoidable deaths.
A cabal of psychologically damaged free-market ideologues, greedy investment bankers & corrupt lobbyists, many of them devoid of compassion, who treat voters & the truth with utter contempt, & mass deaths as an entry on balance sheet, have taken over the Govt, & now rule Britain.
This has been brewing for forty years. The 2008 financial crash was a warning about the dangers of deregulated free-market #capitalism & greedy investment bankers.
These greedy psychopathic criminal bastards nearly destroyed the global economy, causing 30 million job losses.
Govts let them get away scot free with the biggest financial heist in history.
Grotesque & unimaginable wealth - exploited from the poor, the environment, & the low paid - has been systematically funneled offshore, to the extent that at least $30 TRILLION is now hoarded there.
They're insatiable. They own our personal data & pour money into think tanks, the press, the media & campaigns purely to persuade voters to elect Govts full of their own, who create the conditions most conducive to minimizing human & environmental protections & maximizing profit.
In Britain alone, while we've all endured austerity, declining public services & mass deaths, the combined wealth of Britain's richest 1,000 individuals INCREASED by £480 BILLION since 2009, while kids go hungry.
They fund the Tories.
This is grotesque, & it harms all of us.
Since 2000, the global population of billionaires rose more than fivefold, to 2,700.
During the coronavirus pandemic, the total wealth of billionaires worldwide rose by $5TRILLION to $13TRILLION - the most dramatic surge ever.
Libertarian media owners & politicians ensure voters don't care about this insidious system. Instead, we're fed a diet of mindless entertainment, COVID & climate denial, & a relentless culture war, which derides those who DO care about injustice, the earth & GROTESQUE INEQUALITY.
Until we get a critical mass of voters, journalists, politicians, CEOs & activists willing to discuss the reality of the situation, & to articulate an alternative, we are doomed to division, despair, exploitation, mass deaths & global conflict over finite & decreasing resources.
ANY political leader who seeks to fuel division & exploit tensions, rather than attempting to defuse tensions & solve this problem is not a leader, but a dangerously irresponsible opportunist who is unfit for office.
And when I say this catastrophic situation has "been brewing for forty years", this #THREAD explains exactly what I mean, in the context of Britain:
A handful of selfish sociopathic billionaires and the populist politicians and media they fund have deliberately divided and radicalised millions of people across the world, solely to protect their wealth and power.
They claim to want to help “save children” while spreading distrust of experts, reputable journalism, climate science, and vaccines — which have saved over 100 million children since 1974.
By dividing the public, they protect their wealth and power.
Rather than justify how their wealth was earned, these elites cultivate scepticism of their critics and of expertise itself.
This deliberate erosion of trust shields their interests while undermining the science that saves lives and protects our planet.
Robert Jenrick closed his Conference speech with: “Let’s build this NEW ORDER. Let’s TAKE our country back.” Hitler's “New Order” was a vision for an Aryan-led Europe which involved exterminating or enslaving “undesirable” minorities.
In Britain, a group of prominent MPs—including Nigel Farage, Lee Anderson, Rupert Lowe, Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman—are normalising far-right discourse through three recurring frames/themes: invasion, scapegoating for cultural destruction, and demographic replacement.
Let's talk about chainsaw enthusiast, Musk buddy, and darling of the global free-market right, Javier Milei.
Let’s look at which UK politicians and news media have been most effusive in their praise for him, and at whats happened to Argentina since he was elected in 2023.
Milei’s election as President of Argentina in November 2023 was met with enthusiasm from right-wing news media and populist politicians who praised his libertarian, anti-establishment platform as a model for radical economic reform.
Support was often framed in the context of Thatcherite principles, with Milei seen as a disruptor against "socialism".
1. Kemi Badenoch celebrated Milei as a "template" for her own potential Government, aspiring to be "Britain’s version of Javier Milei".
A global evangelical Christian ARMY linked to TPUSA/TPUK, "fighting for the Britain whose church missioned & colonised the dark, demonic, heathen world with light, truth & salvation", founded by a former British boy band member addicted to cocaine until he found God?
WTAF!🤯
'The King's Army' is a non-denominational Christian evangelism and discipleship movement launched in the UK mid-2024 - a "spiritual army" of believers enlisted to combat sin, cultural decay, and "darkness" through aggressive street outreach, prayer marches and public protests. 🤪
Drawing on biblical military metaphors, it emphasises "virtue and valor" among Christians, urging them to "stop living like civilians and start fighting like soldiers!"
It targets young men for recruitment, standing against issues like secularism and "immoral culture"!
Two people have died and three are in a serious condition following a suspected terror attack on a Manchester synagogue. Muslim leaders have condemned the attack. The suspect was shot dead by Police.
Some @X accounts are blaming Starmer. What's this got to do with @elonmusk?
Since Musk bought Twitter in October 2022 and rebranded it as @X, the platform has transformed from a space for news and debate into a megaphone for hate, disinformation, and extremist ideology.
The consequences are now spilling into the streets.
Musk’s first act as owner was to gut @X’s safety and moderation teams, firing around 80% of staff responsible for enforcing hate-speech and misinformation policies.
Ellison (~$390bn), Musk (~£385bn), and Zuckerberg (~$260): the three richest men on earth.
Ellison is buying TikTok. He controls nearly 50% of Paramount Skydance and wants Warner Bros Discovery. Carrie Symonds's dad is a director of his Foundation.
For more than a century, some of the richest people on earth have bought up various media in order to shape politics and public opinion in a way that protects their wealth and power from democracy.
Musk, Zuckerberg and Ellison are doing precisely this on steroids.
These billionaires are reshaping the world into a dystopia that makes The Handmaids Tale look quaint.
Ellison owns 98% of one of the largest Hawaiian Islands, rolls out his total global surveillance system called 'The Oracle' to ensure 'good behaviour'.