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7 Jul, 5 tweets, 3 min read
The Govt are happy to gamble with our lives.

Two million people could get #COVID19 this summer, meaning up to 10 million isolating in just six weeks, causing chaos for families, businesses & the economy, & dramatically increasing cases of long-covid.

theguardian.com/world/2021/jul…
Banker Sajid Javid says we face considerable uncertainty as England enters “uncharted territory”, & infection numbers could easily rise above 100,000/day over the summer.

Last week he said there's “no going back” from unlocking, now he's not so sure.
theguardian.com/world/2021/jul…
Sajid Javid is the last person you want making any decisions about public health: he's a banker & a free-market crank - the people who caused the financial crash - he's been brought in to privatise the #NHS.

He should be should in prison, not parliament.

After free-market fundamentalist Sajid Javid was cancelled as Chancellor, he took a job with dodgy bankers JP Morgan & AI company C3ai - being paid around £250,000, & £350,000 in shares from the latter.

*Coincidentally*, JP Morgan has an extensive healthcare funding division. 🧐 Image
Sajid Javid passionately supports 'free-market' solutions to almost everything - & now he's Health Secretary, in charge of OUR #NHS, some might suggest the fact that his shares in C3ai - which offers services to healthcare providers - might just represent a conflict of interest. Image

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For six years, privatised Southern Water deliberately poured enormous volumes of untreated sewage into the sea to avoid financial penalties & the cost of upgrading & maintaining infrastructure.

Deregulated free-market #capitalism isn't working.

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#Neoliberalism aims to reform the conduct of individuals & institutions to make them more competitive & productive. My 2003 PhD explored how this results in regulation which positions employees as (ir)responsible for failing to take adequate measures to protect themselves.
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My thesis utilised qualitative research methods & forms of Critical Discourse Analysis from within a predominantly Foucauldian perspective, to explore the relations between the perceived shift toward an underlying neoliberal political rationality, & emerging forms of regulation.
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