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15 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
In the real world - away from the propaganda of the corrupt Govt & the toxic infantile right-wing press - "levelling up" actually means half of all UK families are WORSE OFF than they were at #GE2019, while the richest 5% are BETTER OFF by £3,300/year. 🤬

neweconomics.org/2021/12/two-ye…
"Unarguably, Covid has widened Britain’s wealth gap still further, accelerating a divergence already in train for decades. The fortunes of the asset-rich have waxed while those of the asset-poor have waned" - FACTS the corrupt lying Tories ignore or deny.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Donations by the UK's top 1% fell by a fifth in real terms from 2012 to 2019, despite soaring incomes, meaning charities have missed out on over £2BILLION. Over the same period donations from the rest of us rose.

It's a war between the 1% & everone else.

theguardian.com/money/2021/dec…

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15 Dec
#THREAD on #charity under #neoliberalism.

"The mobilisation of charity & welfare state restructuring are part of a broader project to ‘reassemble the social’ in accordance with (neo)liberal ideals of spontaneous, affective, self-regulating sociality."

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
I'll quote/summarise the main conclusions of this innovative & timely intervention by Andrew Clarke & Cameron Parsell, who call for a reconfiguration, enabling people experiencing poverty, & the charitable people who work alongside them, to contribute to reassembling the social.
Enrolling charity in the neoliberalization of the social contributes to the reconfiguring of citizenship, solidarity & the social status of the poor to cultivate ethical solidarity, rather than to understand the true needs of the poor, or to address the causes of #poverty.
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14 Dec
These cowardly gaslighting hypocrites say they object to sensible COVID measures on the grounds of the fear it could lead to a gradual creep towards more draconian restrictions, while supporting ACTUAL draconian antidemocratic laws & the systematic removal of basic human rights.
Who is Tom Hunt?

One of his first actions after becoming an MP was to join the unhinged hard-right ERG

As you might expect, his grotesque, vile & divisive rhetoric signifies he's just another confused, arrogant, & condescending individual, with views that belong in the 1950s.
About local crime, the regressive 'law & order' throwback said: "It is impossible to start thinking about remedies to these issues without also being ready to confront the possibility that a disproportionate number of crimes are committed by individuals from CERTAIN COMMUNITIES."
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14 Dec
#THREAD

The UK Govt is out of control.

They are systematically dismantling every bit of progress generations of British people have won over the last few centuries.

They are deliberately deploying the Fascist playbook, & it's really not funny any more.

theguardian.com/law/2021/dec/1…
Our Govt is pressing ahead with draconian, authoritarian, antidemocratic & anti-British reforms that would make authoritarian dictators blush. These new reforms will increase their power & make it even harder to hold them to account for their constant lies, cheating & corruption.
Any rational person who understands these developments will conclude Britain now has a Government of evil sociopath's, who see voters & human rights merely as obstacles to their absolute power.

This sweeping overhaul of human rights law is “a blatant, unashamed, power grab.”
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13 Dec
#Thread

So @Keir_Starmer's promise to do everything necessary to save OUR #NHS got me thinking about Blairite Alan Milburn, Secretary of State for Health from 1999 to 2003, charged with "modernising" OUR NHS & driving through Private Finance Initiative (PFI) deals on hospitals.
In 2002 Milburn introduced #NHS foundation trusts, "described at the time as a sort of halfway house between the public & private sectors".

The government increased expenditure on the NHS, although the public was sceptical over claims of improved performance.
Following his resignation as Secretary of State for Health Milburn took a £30,000/yr post as an advisor to Bridgepoint Capital, a venture capital firm which financed private health-care firms moving into the #NHS, including Alliance Medical, Match Group, Medica & Robinia Care.
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13 Dec
The UK government once again faces accusations of passing responsibility to individual employers – trusting them to consult workers & act compassionately.

This is classic #neoliberalism, individualising responsibility & risking public health & safety.

theconversation.com/jobs-crisis-th…
It is the latest incarnation of a UK government jobs policy that fetishises laissez-faire economics, perpetual consumerism & profit maximisation. For 40 years, The winners-take-all rule by the market-world elite has dominated for forty years.
Neoliberalism has eroded the social world of collective social institutions such as public services & trade unions, while greatly increasing casualised low-paid jobs under a disposable flexible labour-market model.

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13 Dec
A broadcast news presenter getting praise from right across the political spectrum is extremely rare.

@BBCRosAtkins' reports do what ALL news should: “explain the background & context to current events in a scrupulously impartial, accessible way”.

theguardian.com/media/2021/dec…
James O'Brien: "Unspun reality"

Piers Morgan: “Ros once again brilliantly illustrating that the best journalism is often the simplest: just damn people with cool, calm, collected & utterly irrefutable facts.”

Andrew Neil: “Forensic, measured, factual, brilliant."
Atkins' explainers were created to make live TV also work as a digital on-demand product:

“If you look at what he’s (@BBCRosAtkins) done, it’s stripped down ‘this is what happened’ in three minutes flat – there’s no florid tedious language, there’s no self indulgence to it.”
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