Thread by @docrussjackson

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.

pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021…

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.

It's CRYSTAL CLEAR that free-market supporting Andrew Neil's hedge funded Brexit TV channel is nothing to do with 'news': like Fox 'News', it exists to outrage & divide voters, & to distract us from the catastrophic failures of free market fundamentalism.

https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1387088535254093833

Really good article about the contrived & polarising culture war.

"The Conservatives have always excelled at stoking resentment & redirecting it elsewhere; now is no different."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

And today we get this in a British newspaper - one of the most grotesquely misleading newspaper headlines since the Sun lied about Liverpool football fans' role in the Hillsborough disaster - coincidentally when Andrew Neil was working for Murdoch as editor of The Sunday Times.

The losses suffered by labour relative to capital are more extreme than previously thought. Productivity gains since the mid-1990s were 25% in real terms, wages grew by 11%.

At least $30 TRILLION is hoarded offshore by the elite.

#Capitalism is broken.

ft.com/content/5f4c58…