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27 Oct, 15 tweets, 6 min read
1/ The mainstream media are letting the Tories off with their #Budget21 coverage. Their accepting the Tory narrative and not doing adequate fact checking.
So, this is an ongoing Thread with fact checking on the Budget
(items in no particular order)
2/ The outlook isn’t “optimistic” the way Sunak claims - The UK is forecast to suffer the worst economic damage from Covid-19 of any G7 country.
3/ Borrowing - this stuff about balancing the books is nonsense, borrowing as practically equalled GDP, ie the money the whole economy makes since 1700!
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4/ Trade - reduced trade with the EU post Brexit will reduce productivity (hence living standards etc) by 4%
5/ Living Wage / Minimum Wage Increase - No it isn't worth £1000 to full time workers!
6/ Universal Credit (1)
- Sunak already cut back £6bn from UC, the tapper reduction puts back £2bn so £4bh still cut
- The tapper on income above the limit was cut from 63% to 55%. Millionaires selling assets only pay 20% capital gains tax.
7/ Universal Credit (2)
- The change to the UC tapper will only benefit less than 1/3 of families losing the £20 uplift
8/ Early years support - This is not a new idea. Sunak and the media have forgotten Sure Start centres which cut by the Tories. What he has proposed barely makes up for what was lost.
9/ Spending increases - No, they're not as Sunak claims “the largest this century”
10/ More money for Government departments - Yes technically more money but most are still worse off compared to 2010.
11/ Government jobs - Buried in the detail of #Budget21 are 32,000 job cuts.
12/ The Banks - the Chancellor is a former banker and he didn't forge his mates!
13/ Pensions - state pensions will increase by less because the Tory have needed the "Triple Lock" on increases. This will cost pensioners a year £6bn a year.
14/ The #ClimateCrisis - nothing on it, zero, zip. In fact the opposite, a tax cut to encourage people to fly more!
15/ High wage economy - that's just a phrase, the reality is vert different. Wages are forecast to be £11.70 lower in 2026 than if the pre-2008 trend in wage growth had continued!

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26 Oct
1/ With the #COP26 conference, there'll be many good words and statements of intent from political leaders on the #ClimateCrisis The thing is there's what they do and what they say.
This is an ongoing Thread logging the hypocrisy of the UK leaders. Establishment media won't be!
2/ Prince Charles - standing in for the Queen, will be a centre of attention. His own *conservation* charity accepted money from the world's biggest oil company, the Saudi company, Aramco.
3/ Prince Charles (cont.) - the Prince's own lifestyle is hardly a model for being climate friendly. @RepublicStaff have posted billboards in Glasgow to spotlight his record.
thenational.scot/news/19670149.…
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It’s odd that as the BBC and Sky regularly cycle through the list of violent attacks on MPs they don’t mention an attempt to kill the then Leader of the Opposition. Image
2/ They also neglect to mention that time that the then Leader of the Opposition was assaulted. Image
3/ The BBC and Sky also forget to mention that time when an image of the Leader of the Opposition was used as target practice by serving soldiers
Read 5 tweets
13 Oct
1/ The Tories excuse for being late to lockdown in 2020 is that they worried the public wouldn't want that sort of restriction or be able to handle it, so they had to delay it for as long as possible.
Rubbish.
This Thread with evidence from the time why that claim is nonsense.
2/ The Tories didn't lockdown until March 23rd but this poll from a month earlier (28th Feb) shows that public already had a desire for stronger restrictions..
3/ Many organisations didn't wait for the Tories to act. On March 13th (ten days before lockdown), the main football bodies decided themselves to suspend all games.(NB what I'm calling social distancing here means lockdown, we weren't using that word then)
Read 9 tweets
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The disastrous mistakes by the Tory government in dealing with #COVID19 were enabled by an Opposition leader who went out of his way to support very major decision (mistake) they made
WATCH two clips in this Thread from 2020 that remind us just how much Starmer backed the Tories
Clip 1 - Ridge gives Starmer opportunity after opportunity to criticise the government's obvious mistakes. He declines each time.
Clip 2 - BBC Laura gives Starmer an opportunity to criticise the governments mismanagement of PPE for #COVID19 he gives a very soft reply
Read 4 tweets
27 Sep
The fuel crisis and EU HGV drivers - media coverage Sky vs BBC
Two clips on this Thread, one from Sky, the other from the BBC. I'll make no judgement here. Watch them both, see which one gives you a better understanding of the situation. If you do, comment on what you think
1/4
Clip (1) Sky News
Clip (2) BBC1 News
Read 4 tweets
26 Sep
1/ For renationalisation:
53% of the public
Labour conference and members
Kier Starmer January 2020

Against:
The right wing press and the BBC
The Tory party
Keir Starmer September 2021

Receipts below 1/4
2/ More than half of the public would support renationalising energy companies, polling reveals
inews.co.uk/news/politics/…
3/ Starmer committing in writing and in speech to nationalisation in early 2020 when he wanted votes in the leadership election:
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