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This thread contains 10 things that any competent journalist should have been able to discover and verify.

That is 10 things your daily news source should have made sure you are fully aware of already.

Were you made aware?
(2/11)
Our government, like all others, has had to struggle against COVID to save lives and to protect the economy.
Were you aware of how poorly ours has performed?
99-percent.org/how-does-our-g…
(3/11)
Part of our government’s response was to circumvent procurement rules to ‘tackle the emergency.’

They spent well over £1 billion of our money with unqualified companies linked to ministers – in several cases in return for nothing usable.
99-percent.org/money-for-noth…
(4/11)
An even worse example is how they circumvented the NHS and are spending £37 billion (!) on the so-called “NHS test and trace” programme which has been heavily criticised by the National Audit Office in two separate reports for failure to deliver.
99-percent.org/whats-in-a-nam…
(5/11)
The single biggest reason for our high death toll is that our government has consistently refused to stick to a sound strategy to contain COVID.
99-percent.org/what-is-the-go…
(6/11)
Although being systematic does not seem to be a hall-mark of this government, they are systematically unwinding all checks and balances on their actions.
99-percent.org/saving-democra…
(7/11)
Soon it will not be legal even to stage a peaceful protest (e.g. on climate issues) in the UK.
99-percent.org/what-kind-of-c…
(8/11)
As many senior Tories warned us, the Conservative Party has been captured by extremists, whose agenda is not in the interests of the UK population.
99-percent.org/what-is-the-ma…
(9/11)
And the NHS is under immediate threat.
99-percent.org/amending-the-h…
(10/11)
If we do not act, the UK will become a Plunder State.
99-percent.org/malice-in-plun…
(11/11)
But between us, we have the power to stop that happening.
99-percent.org/the-fragility-…

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16 Sep
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Many long-serving members of the Conservative party have warned us that it has been taken over by extremists.

This thread explores what that means in practice and what its impact will be on you (and me).
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We will suffer:
1.Economically – we will be far poorer over time (as indeed most are since 2010)
2.In terms of Health, we will be far worse protected; and
3.Democratically, we (and even most segments of society) will have zero impact on government policy
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Economically, the government always talks as if the UK can no longer afford to spend on things we need to remain a civilised country.
This is quite untrue – they simply do not wish to spend on these things
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With all the government is doing, it is hard to keep track of the big picture.

This thread argues that the UK risks ceasing to be a functioning democracy with a strong economy and a prosperous population and becoming the world’s first ‘formerly developed nation.’
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Which will increase the likelihood of bodies piling high, especially among more deprived groups.
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The Johnson government’s propensity to mislead the public has already been widely documented.

This thread explores the single most damaging lie of all – the lie that the UK can no longer ‘afford’ to remain a civilised country.
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Closer to home, the Education Recovery Commissioner for England, Sir Kevan Collins, recently resigned because the government knocked 90% of his proposed catch-up budget, again on the grounds of ‘unaffordability.’
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This thread explains the assault the UK government is mounting on the NHS: its historical roots, its recent manifestations and the plans for the future.

Most importantly, it explains what we need to do to prevent the assault succeeding.
99-percent.org/three-risks-to…
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If you can't believe that any UK government would think "healthcare for the bulk of the population could be shifted from the state to privately owned and run medical facilities" make sure you read the cabinet paper at the end of this article.
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Over the last decade, the assault has been waged largely by economic means – starving the NHS of funds so that it increasingly struggles to perform.
99-percent.org/crisis-what-cr…
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This thread pulls together some of the key facts about the UK economy that your newspaper may not have told you.

Many people are aware that the world’s billionaires have done very well over the last 12 months…
ft.com/content/747a76…
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Not so many know that this is a 40-year trend which has seen worse economic performance, and far worse income growth for ordinary people, than we saw in the largely forgotten Golden Age of Capitalism, but a great boom for the very wealthy.
99-percent.org/a-golden-legac…
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This is not an accident: it is the result of a deliberate – though not publicly communicated – market fundamentalist agenda which aims, among other things, to replace ‘mass democracy’ and get rid of the NHS.
99-percent.org/what-is-the-ma…
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According to both the Daily Mail and ITV, Prime Minister Johnson said that rather than Institute a further lockdown, he would prefer to see “bodies pile high in their thousands”
itv.com/news/2021-04-2…
(2/13)
And he has indeed seen them pile up, to the tune of over 150,000 – one of the world’s worst death tolls.

And this despite the fact that the UK is a rich country with a strong science base.

This thread explores how that came to pass.
99-percent.org/the-best-we-co…
(3/13)
The continual refrain from ministers has been that “we are doing all that can be done.”

The implication is that COVID was virtually impossible to manage – nobody could have done better.

The facts say otherwise.
standard.co.uk/news/uk/uk-cor…
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