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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The elite want more deregulated free-market capitalism.
Yet despite the best efforts of newspaper owners, broadcasters, politicians, lobbyists & think tanks, 67% of British people strongly support MORE REGULATION of business, compared to 53% in Germany.
British people also desire a much more expansive role for the state: 62% deem it “very important” for the Govt to build more public housing, & 53% want to increase benefits for the poor - higher than other countries. 50% want a Universal Basic Income - much higher than elsewhere.
The fake 'culture war' fought every day by "Libertarians" & free-market supporters in the press, on radio & on TV, is designed to distract voters from the multiple catastrophic failures of deregulated free market capitalism by keeping us outraged, obsessed with trivia, & divided.
Various bankers & journalists have recently been very upbeat about the prospects for Britain's economic recovery:
"The British economy will be booming. It is not yet widely appreciated just how big this boom will be" - Andrew Neil.
My advice: don't believe the hype.
Last week the Bank of England said: "Economic growth in Britain this year should not be confused with a normal boom... economy shrank almost 10% last year, biggest slump in 300 years".
While the opinion polls show a 'vaccine bounce' for the Tories, again: don't believe the hype.
A fascinating new opinion poll by the respected Pew Research Center, discussed in the Financial Times, tells a fascinating story about how a clear majority in the US & Western Europe support large scale, systemic change.
Today, Boris Johnson meets only the 2nd EU leader since Brexit: grotesque far-right racist authoritarian, Viktor Orbán, who doesn't want "our" colour mixed with others.
The Biden administration describes Hungary as 'a totalitarian regime'.
No 10 calls Orbán 'our friend'.
Meeting a corrupt far-right anti-democratic authoritarian, with strong links to the deregulatory free-market think tank network which uses dark money to roll back worker, consumer, democratic & environmental protections, sends an awful signal to the world. opendemocracy.net/en/5050/dark-m…
As we now know, Boris Johnson & his chaotic Govt care not one jot for truth, minorities, or morality: they lie with impunity; deny structural racism; hand multi-£million contracts to their mates; & prioritise money & power over tens of thousands of lives.
Tomorrow, the UK's PM Boris Johnson talks to his "friend" #racist far-right anti-democratic authoritarian PM Viktor Orbán, who has spoken of not wanting "our" colour mixed with others & of Hungary "defending itself against the migrant flow & invasion”.
"The public is much less engaged or extreme in its views than you’d suspect... The US history of culture wars suggests we’re at a very dangerous moment... Where America leads, Britain often follows – but we can still choose a different path."
Across a whole series of terms connected to the culture wars, the majority said they’d heard at best “a little” about them, with large proportions saying they’d never heard of common media & political tropes such as “cancel culture” & “microagressions”.
Framing matters: the term that's cut through most is “white privilege”, with over half of the UK public saying they’d heard a lot about it.
While half of white British people agree it’s easier to get ahead if you’re white, only 29% agree there is “white privilege” in Britain. 🤔
On Friday, anti-democratic right-wing populist nationalist authoritarian PM with a long history of racist comments Boris Johnson, is meeting with Putin ally Viktor Orbán.
Under Orbán's leadership, Hungary has experienced democratic backsliding & a lurch towards authoritarianism.
Orbán's populism, social-national conservatism, soft Euroscepticism & advocacy of what he describes as an "illiberal state" have attracted significant European & international attention & criticism from domestic & foreign leaders, including Angela Merkel, but praise from Johnson.
Orbán has gradually undermined the rule of law, established tight control over the country’s independent institutions, adopted a new constitution & fundamentally changing electoral laws & the system of campaign financing.
Johnson's 👏 Govt 👏 is 👏 doing👏 the 👏same.#NotADrill