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18 Nov, 8 tweets, 3 min read
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This thread explains why Ken Clarke’s comment about elected dictatorships should be taken seriously.

We still have time to save UK democracy, but we do not have time to waste.
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Ken Clarke said:
“Boris is … impatient with constitutional constraints. He gets angry if courts or parliament interfere. We are dangerously close to the “elected dictatorship” that Lord Hailsham warned us about half a century ago.”
theneweuropean.co.uk/tim-walker-int…
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And it is not mere anger and impatience – he is busy dismantling all those safeguards.
99-percent.org/saving-democra…
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Soon it may be illegal to stage a peaceful protest for example about #Torycorruption or sewage dumping.
99-percent.org/what-kind-of-c…
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And without checks and balances, there is nothing to stop him implementing the market fundamentalist agenda.
99-percent.org/what-is-the-ma…
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And turning the UK into a Plunder State
99-percent.org/malice-in-plun…
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In which the government becomes just a mechanism for “redistributing wealth from the ordinary subject citizen to the [very wealthy].”
99-percent.org/plunderland-re…
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If you don’t want to see that, join the @99organisation.
99-percent.org

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19 Nov
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The government claims “Protecting the NHS is of the utmost importance to the Government.”
This thread explains why we cannot believe that, what the government has in store for the NHS and what we need to do to stop them.
99-percent.org/government-res…
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As John Major said:

“Michael Gove wanted to privatise the NHS; Boris wanted to charge people for using it; and Iain Duncan Smith wanted a social insurance system.
The NHS is as safe with them as a pet hamster would be with a hungry python.”
theguardian.com/politics/2016/…
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He is supposed to be our Health Secretary.
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16 Nov
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Without apparently noticing the irony, #JohnsonthecorruptPM claims that the Conservatives are the party of law and order...
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... what he means is that he is making sure that there is one law for the party and quite another for us ...
99-percent.org/what-is-happen…
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... where he and his donors can plunder the UK without interference from the courts or anyone else.

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4 Nov
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This thread is about the creeping corruption in UK politics.

Corruption is hard to prove but immensely destructive of society
99-percent.org/corruption-in-…
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And our democratic safeguards against it are under serious threat.
Leading Cabinet ministers are taking part in the attack on our anti-corruption defences.
theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
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Unfortunately, the government’s attack on democracy is wider still and therefore even more dangerous.
99-percent.org/saving-democra…
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7 Oct
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As John Major said:

“The concept that [the Cabinet] care for the NHS is odd: Gove wants to privatise it; Boris wants to charge people for using it; and Duncan Smith wants an insurance system. The NHS is as safe with them as a pet hamster would be with a hungry python.”
And Javid believes:

"Government shouldn’t own all risks and responsibilities. We have to take responsibility for our health. We shouldn’t always go first to the state. Health and Social Care... should be family first, then community then the state.”

99-percent.org/amending-the-h…
So the idea of just keeping the NHS as a brand on top of something like the US system is now at the top of the agenda.
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30 Sep
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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?
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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…
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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…
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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).
99-percent.org/what-is-the-ma…
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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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