New chair of charities watchdog resigns over ‘inappropriate’ behaviour: he was subject to misconduct complaints at Women for Women International UK.

Thomas is said to know Boris Johnson through family links & studied classics at Oxford at the same time.

theguardian.com/society/2021/d…
“This is not how public appointments should happen. And, one might think, it’s not how public appointments do happen for those who lack friends in high places."
He was the subject of three formal misconduct complaints at the charity Women for Women International UK, which included an incident in 2018 when he sent a picture of himself in a Victoria’s Secret store to a female employee.
He resigned as chairman in May following an investigation into alleged bullying concluded that he had behaved inappropriately towards a different employee.

It's never ending...

FFS, we need to get shot of the toxic Tories - & all their posh chums - asap.

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20 Dec
In 2018 it was revealed that Liz Truss met with ‘dark money’ libertarian think tanks during a taxpayer funded trip to Washington DC, who have close ties to Koch, & were key backers of the Trump administration's drive to slash environmental regulations.

unearthed.greenpeace.org/2018/12/19/liz…
Liz Truss met with representatives of five libertarian groups, including think tanks such as the opaquey funded hard-right Heritage Foundation & American Enterprise Institute, that aim to shrink the size of the US Govt & scrap environmental protections. Image
Truss also met with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a controversial organisation that brings together corporate interests and state-level politicians to draft business-friendly legislation that is then enacted in state legislatures across the US.
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19 Dec
#THREAD

Lois Perry, a panelist & guest presenter on #JeremyVine, recently made the fearmongering & divisive claim in the Daily Mirror that "face masks instill fear & division".

The Mirror neglected to mention she's a representative of Lawrence Fox's COVID-denying Reclaim Party. Image
The Mirror also neglected to say that Lois Perry is Director & owner of CAR26, a new company which questions whether carbon dioxide is a "significant factor in global warming" & suggests teaching kids about climate change is "borderline child abuse".

Can you see what it is yet?
Perry was spotted on Glasgow Streets with unhinged anti-vaxxer Piers Corbyn during #COP26, & a poll showing public support for a referendum on the UK’s net zero goal which was on the front page of the Telegraph on October 21st, was paid for by Perry's CAR26.

It's a small world! Image
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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.
Read 23 tweets
15 Dec
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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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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