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8 Nov, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Another day, another significant development in *by far* the most anti-democratic, authoritarian & corrupt UK Govt in living history.

They want toxic divisive unhinged BBC-hating crackpot Paul Dacre to head @Ofcom & regulate broadcast media - including the @BBC.

#ToryCorruption
Some of Paul "Independent" Dacre's earlier work...
Should he become @Ofcom Chair, I'm sure @BBCNews & @BBCPolitics - as well as all the other broadcast media - will be treated with the kind of compassionate, intelligent, sensitive & nuanced non-partisan independence & objectivity that Paul Dacre has used throughout his career.
Sigh. The attacks on British democracy by our Government are relentless:

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10 Nov
IMPORTANT NEW REPORT from @BotSentinel:

'Journalists and Royal Commentators Interacting with Hate Accounts Targeting Meghan and Harry, Duke and Duchess of Sussex'.

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"During our initial investigation into Twitter hate accounts targeting Meghan and Harry, Duke and Duchess of Sussex, we observed an unusual number of hate accounts interacting with journalists and royal commentators who are frequently cited in the media as "royal experts"."
"The hate accounts we monitored appeared to follow and interact with certain prominent Twitter accounts that primarily cover the royal family."

"Moreover, several prominent Twitter accounts covering the royal family followed some of the more active and well-known hate accounts."
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10 Nov
Tory MPs have been writing “sponsored content” online for the Betting & Gaming Council, a lobbying group campaigning for the gambling industry.

Of course they have.

They are unfit to govern.

We need to #ChangeTheSystem

#ToryCorruption

theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
They include Jack Brereton, MP for Stoke-on-Trent South and a government aide who wrote an article published on the ConservativeHome website on Monday urging ministers to make sure the gambling review does “nothing to put the industry’s competitiveness at risk.
Mark Jenkinson wrote one of the sponsored pieces in July. He declared an Ascot hospitality box in June worth £1,400, paid for by the BCG.

ERG member & ex-UKIP candidate Jenkinson, along with Ben Bradley, is often in the news for his grotesque views:

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10 Nov
#Thread

Private equity firms spent £33BILLION buying up British firms in the first half of this year!

£530m takeover of 178yr old LV, founded to help Liverpool’s poor bury their dead, by US private equity firm Bain Capital means LV would no longer be owned by its 1.2m members. ImageImageImage
Private equity refers to investment funds organised as limited partnerships that buy & restructure companies not publicly traded on a stock exchange.

Private equity predators have become notorious for taking quick profits while slashing jobs & leaving behind long-term problems.
There is a debate around the distinction between private equity & foreign direct investment (FDI), and whether to treat them separately. The difference is blurred on account of private equity not entering the country through the stock market.
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9 Nov
He's not wrong.
Harry says ‘Megxit’ is a misogynistic term aimed at his wife Meghan.

Again, he's not wrong.

If only we had more (any?) British politicians brave enough to call out the harmful influence of sections of our divisive regressive press.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/n…
Prince Harry: “I warned him (Jack Dorsey) his platform (Twitter) was allowing a coup to be staged. That email was sent the day before. And then it happened and I haven’t heard from him since.”

He wasn't wrong then either.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/n…
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9 Nov
#THREAD

Keep Calm & Carry On was part of a motivational poster campaign designed by the Ministry of Information in 1939. Intended to raise the morale of the British public, the campaign was cancelled following criticism: people regarded the message as 'patronising & divisive'.👇
2.5million copies were printed but only a handful ever appeared in public. In 1940 stocks were pulped. Design historian Susannah Walker regards the Keep Calm campaign as "a resounding failure" & reflective of a misjudgement by upper-class civil servants of the mood of the people. Image
'Keep Calm & Carry On' is evocative of the antiquated & largely mythical upper class Victorian belief in long departed British stoicism – the "stiff upper lip", self-discipline, fortitude, & remaining calm in adversity – a cliché of British sensibility.

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8 Nov
Shortly after a Tory MP was first elected in 2005, a business which he owned 72% of was sold for £13million - yet now he's facing bankruptcy proceedings over unpaid taxes that could result in him having to step down?

How do you burn through TEN MILLION?

theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
I (clearly) don't know how bankruptcy works, & the article doesn't really explain. So you can run up £5k of debt - even though you have enormous wealth, & you just get to keep it? Can someone explain it to me please?
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