Just ten men, almost all Brextremists, have made a fifth of all major political donations from individuals in the UK in the past 20 years, giving £106 MILLION to political parties & campaigns.

All have given money to the Conservative Party at some point.

opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…
Almost all the top ten donors are Brexiteers and have donated £27m between them to Eurosceptic causes.

Of this, nearly half comes from Christopher Harborne, linked to many offshore companies, a businessman who has donated £13million to Nigel Farage’s Reform Party since 2019.
Billionaire Peter Hargreaves gave £3.2m to the Brexit campaign group Leave. EU.

In February, following Sunak's hint about corporation tax rises, he said: "The best Governments get out of the way of business. Government spending is inefficient & abused by unworthy recipients." ImageImage
Oh yes, nearly forgot: while an above inflation pay rise for #NHS workers is "unaffordable", & as multi-millionaire Rishi Sunak announces FURTHER #austerity cuts to essential public services which will disproportionately harm the poor of up to £17BILLION, consider this: Image
The businessman Lex Greensill was given “extraordinarily privileged” access to government, while the government’s process for managing #lobbying is insufficiently transparent and allows access to a “privileged few”.

We're ruled by billionaires.

theguardian.com/politics/2021/…

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22 Jul
The "Yellow Peril" is a racist metaphor that represents East Asian people as an existential danger to 'the West'.

When challenged, supposedly erudite Jacob Rees-Mogg said “I don’t actually know what term I used that was offensive, so if out of ignorance I have, I apologise.” ImageImage
Jacob Rees-Mogg is an existential danger to Britain.

Here's a selection of tweets about his extremely concerning behaviour:

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Fuck Andrew Neil's shit-stirring hard-right propaganda hate-rag, the @spectator.

And fuck Andrew Neil's shit-stirring hard-right propaganda hate-channel, GB "News".

The toxic bastards who fund this crap help to demonise the good guys & support the nasty selfish lying bastards.
Marcus represents the very best of British. The
@spectator, GB "News", much of the press & the Govt represent the very worst. They fear successful, decent, honest & altruistic role models - it's completely alien to them that people choose to help others, rather than themselves.
Yesterday 96 more lives were needlessly lost, today we're told UK journalists could face prison sentences of up to 14 years for stories that 'embarrass the Govt', & tonight @BBCNews went full Farage about migrants crossing the channel.

Britain resembles a failed fascist state.
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"Calling it #FreedomDay attempts to nullify the public by encouraging us not to scrutinise government & media performance as we should. It reflects an attempt to move the discussion from science, sociology & public health to patriotism & emancipation."

theconversation.com/why-freedom-da…
The most effective propaganda is that which creates emotional bonds between the target audience & certain people, products, events or concepts. The powerful want us to think in certain ways about #FreedomDay & to exclude/overlook aspects of the pandemic that it deems undesirable. ImageImage
From the propagandist’s point of view though, “freedom” is an effective rhetorical tool because it means whatever the target audience wants it to mean.

Its utility is that the term 'freedom' is vague, but it always resonates with ease when uttered.

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Twitter trolls know that racist/hateful content about a high profile event will be widely condemned online. But condemnation serves to further magnify the impact of these posts: positive message will be overshadowed by discussions of hateful/racist posts.

theconversation.com/euro-2020-coul…
What is surprising is that @Twitter allows the process to continue. There is no ambiguity about these outcomes, only variability in the scale. Twitter has archives of online firestorms in many contexts & is aware of the conditions, characteristics & outcomes of these occurrences.
Based on this knowledge, the rapid immediate cascades that result in the predictable cycle of hateful content and condemnation could be minimised using tools Twitter have already developed, such as prompting users to rethink their tweets that may include harmful language.
Read 6 tweets
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Black people are about 18 times more likely to be searched than their white counterparts.

But according to our culture war Government, structural & institutional racism doesn't exist.

theguardian.com/world/2021/jul…
BME children make up over half of the child population in prison (28% are black). This is an increase of 15% over the past decade.

But according to the culture war Government, structural & institutional racism doesn't exist.
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But according to the culture war Government, structural & institutional racism doesn't exist.
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Like Ghoulia Heartless-Spewer reads books.

Every cloud @Waterstones. 👍
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