The Government proroguing of parliament was illegal.
The Government announced it was going to break the law ‘in a limited way’.
Eleven Tory MPs have now broken the Ministerial Code at least once.
Voter suppression, gerrymandering & the criminalization of protest is under way.
£Billions in taxpayers' money has been handed to Government friends & supporters without any transparency or oversight.
Government gross incompetence has led to 128,000 largely avoidable deaths.
The Government commissions reports that have no intention of finding the truth.
The Government appoints ideological extremists & supporters to important institutional roles & positions which require nuance & independence.
The Government appointed a Goldman Sachs hedge funder who gave the Government £400,000 as @BBC Chair & wanted Paul Dacre for Ofcom Chief.
The Government relentlessly attacks decent charities & organisations such as the National Trust – which just 4% of the population have a negative opinion of – because they give an honest & balanced account of history.
The Government has destroyed Britain's global reputation.
The Government pushes populist nationalist rhetoric in ways that resemble the most tyrannical dictatorships in history.
The Government denies the reality of structural racism which has resulted in a disproportionate amount of minority ethnic deaths during the pandemic.
The Government has created the conditions in which the wealth of Britain’s billionaires - many of whom fund the Tory Party because they prioritise & protect their interests over the interests of ordinary people - has increased by £100 billion in the last twelve months.
The Government has a huge majority despite just 29% of the electorate voting for them.
The Government still demonizes the EU & talks about "the will of the people" in relation to Brexit, despite just 26% of the current UK population voting to leave the EU.
The Government are determined to destroy the @BBC despite the revolving door between No 10 & the BBC, & despite its enormous help over the last decade, especially in treating Jeremy Corbyn completely differently to Boris Johnson in the context of alleged antisemitism & racism.
The Government have pressed ahead with privatizing the #NHS & lied about it.
The Government lied about the number of new hospitals.
The Government will shortly begin selling the confidential medical records of over 50 million NHS patients in England to commercial third parties.
Despite being the sixth richest country on earth, during a global pandemic the Government is to significantly cut foreign aid.
The Government have already broken many manifesto promises, including about food standards in a deal with Australia that will devastate British farming.
Boris Johnson met & works closely with anti-democratic far-right authoritarian racist Viktor Orban, despite the Biden administration calling Hungary a totalitarian regime.
The Government is supported by a global network of free market think tanks funded by foreign billionaires.
The legal system is on the verge of collapse, with 56,000 Crown Court cases backlogged, & people waiting years.
The Law Society has warned that the Government's judicial review "would allow unlawful acts by Government or public bodies to be untouched or untouchable".
The Government demonizes minorities, young people, Universities, schools, footballers, Unions, Black Lives Matter, judges, feminists, environmentalists, scientists, the NHS, BBC, & National Trust, public sector workers, charities, foreigners, historians, the poor, & the Left.
They don't care about the honesty or truth.
They don't care about bodies piled high.
They don't care about poverty.
They don't care about the law.
They don't care about voters.
And they certainly don't care about YOU.
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Life was demonstrably worse in the 1979 than it is today.
Zymunt Bauman calls this yearning for an imagined past, ‘retrotopia’, in which the ‘Volk’ (the ‘simple folk’, who Reform UK claim to represent) are constructed as homogenous, Christian, white, & ‘indigenous’.
Life was demonstrably inferior in the 1970s compared to today for almost everyone in England.
Life expectancy in the UK in 1980 was 71 for men and 77 for women. By 2019, life expectancy at birth in England had increased to 79 years for men & 83.5 for women.
1. Economic Hardship
In 1979, the UK economy was struggling with high inflation, unemployment, and a budget deficit. This eroded purchasing power, making essentials like food, clothing, and housing more expensive relative to wages. "Stagflation" was a significant problem.
'Anti-elite man of the people' Nigel Farage, educated at one of the most expensive private schools on earth, is now the highest paid MP in the UK. His basic annual MP salary is £91,346 plus expenses.
The UK National Living Wage for people aged 21+ is just £12.21/hour.
Let's take a look at some of Nigel Farage's additional earnings that he's legally obliged to declare in the MPs Register of interests - and which contains a few surprises - starting with GB "News".
Between 16th July 2024 and 15th January 2025, Farage decalred earnings of £264,790 for his work as a presenter on Reform UK Ltd's 24/7 propaganda channel, GB "News", co-owned by Islamophobic billionaire hedge-funder, Paul Marshall.
The front-page article, published in the Daily Telegraph, claiming “London is home to as many as 585,000 illegal migrants, equivalent to one in 12 of the city’s population” was covered across the media and widely discussed by politicians and others.
The claim that “One in 12 in London is illegal immigrant” is based on this report, commissioned by Thames Water, conducted by the research company Edge Analytics in February 2023, which the Telegraph says it obtained “under freedom of information-style laws for the environment”.
The EDL is an Islamophobic protest movement aimed at preserving UK identity and culture in the face of a perceived Islamization of the UK and Europe.
So is Reform UK.
The EDL reinforce the notion of the “nationalist subject” - a fallacious conception of citizenship - that wrongly assumes members of the majoritarian culture are possessed of certain core values, beliefs, and traits that embody the true essence of the nation.
🧵 Quite a few politically & historically illiterate brainwashed Trump-supporters replied or quote-tweeted the tweet below to tell me lifelong democratic socialist George Orwell was not in fact a democratic socialist. Truly Orwellian. So I asked Oligarch Musk's Grok about it...
In the preface to her newly reissued book, 'Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan - 30th Anniversary Edition', historian @NancyMacLean5 reflects on the resurgence of white power nationalism and political violence in contemporary America.
MaClean is known for her prescient best-selling 2017 book about the post–WWII conservative thinkers and policymakers who shaped the hyper-neoliberal #Project2025, 'Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America',
Evidence of why her prize-winning book has aged well and why @OxUniPress decided to republish it is obvious: numerous instructors continue to assign it, countless historians cite it, and the best Klan scholars have given it well-deserved praise.