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23 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
In plain sight, the Tory elite is rigging the system to stay in power

Weakening the courts, limiting protest, hobbling the elections regulator. If another country did this, what would we call it?

Defend Democracy - #FBPA Follow Back Progressive Alliance theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
The Tories were once a mass-membership party representing the middle class and ordinary British businesses who needed democracy. Now the Tory elite serve only themselves and their super-rich paymasters many of whom belong to the global and largely offshore elite.
The Tory elite will at times pay lip-service to the needs of ordinary people. But that is only to retain power. Their real interest is increase their own wealth and power while pleasing their kleptocratic patrons.
The Tory elite are no longer part of the people. They have entirely thrown their lot in with their super-rich paymasters. They want to be lavishly rewarded national governers ruling on behalf of William Rees-Mogg's Sovereign Individuals.

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Nick Reeves #FBPA #FBPE #PATH #SmashCorruption Profile picture
24 Dec
1/ Starmer hints that Labour will step back in Lib Dem target seats

This is a positive move. But the problem will be to get seat-specific tactical voting guidance to voters who may tend to vote on national lines.

#FBPA Follow Back Progressive Alliance thetimes.co.uk/article/starme…
2/ In 1997 Blair and Ashdown agreed a list of key seats where Labour and LibDems should stand back. Tactical voting guidance for these seats was published in the Mirror. How can this be replicated in the present day media environment?
3/ There is also a risk that an informal opposition electoral pact will be denounced as an attempt by the political elite to stich up the election. That's one reason why we must make the campaign for a Progressive Alliance as large and as loud as possible. #FBPA
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Nick Reeves #FBPA #FBPE #PATH #SmashCorruption Profile picture
19 Dec
1/ In his resignation letter Lord Frost expressed his wish that the UK would become a “lightly regulated, low-tax” country. In other words like Daniel Hannan and the ERG cabal Frost wants the UK to become a deregulated Brexit tax haven for the rich.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/d…
2/ Frost's remark is a rare glimpse into the Tory Brexiters' real motivations, which they cynically hid from voters. They want a deregulated economy with taxes far too low to maintain the NHS or welfare - a brutal tax haven, a libertarian's wet dream.
3/ The fact that Steve Baker could simply boot Nadine Dorries off the 100-strong Clean Global Brexit WhatsApp group shows that they are very confident in their power. They are libertarian extremists who want a deregulated Brexit tax haven for the rich.
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Nick Reeves #FBPA #FBPE #PATH #SmashCorruption Profile picture
18 Dec
In his resignation letter Lord Frost expressed his wish that the UK would become a “lightly regulated, low-tax” country. In other words like Daniel Hannan and the ERG cabal Frost wants the UK to become deregulated Brexit tax haven for the rich.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/d…
Frost's remark is a rare glimpse into the Tory Brexiters' real motivations, which they cynically hid from voters. They want a deregulated economy with taxes far too low to maintain the NHS or welfare - a brutal tax haven, a libertarian's wet dream.
A tax haven UK could never become another Singapore, because it is too big for the influx of tax-dodging money to provide good public services from low taxes. Instead it would become an archipelago of islands of obscene wealth set amidst a sea of public squalor.
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Nick Reeves #FBPA #FBPE #PATH #SmashCorruption Profile picture
6 Dec
Johnson is ‘planning reforms which would allow ministers to effectively throw out any legal rulings they do not agree with.

This is the mentality of a crime gang which has seized power. Rulers who put themselves above the law are criminals.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
The Tories say never mind the rules, never mind the law. MPs will be judged by the voters.

But when a government by-passes rules and laws there will be no fair elections.

The rule of law and adherence to democratic norms are as central to democracy as elections.
Attlee and Thatcher, both warned that referendums are the tools of dictators and demagogues. We already have the demagogue in the form of Johnson. And it is clear that the Tories see democratic rights and the rule of law as impediments to be curbed or put aside.
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6 Dec
Johnson is ‘planning reforms which would allow ministers to effectively throw out any legal rulings they do not agree with.

A government which is above the law is a government which is moving towards dictatorship.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
The UK never developed a true democratic constitution. The powers of the monarch were transferred to Parliament, and in effect were handed to the PM. We already have an over-powerful executive. To add to that excessive power the ability to overturn legal rulings is terrifying.
The UK is not a democracy because of its constitution. It has been a democracy because governments have respected a set of conventions and norms. Since 2016 the Tories have been tearing up these conventions and norms and so have been undermining our democracy.
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Nick Reeves #FBPA #FBPE #PATH #SmashCorruption Profile picture
5 Dec
1/ A worrying consequence of Tory corruption is that just 5% of voters think politicians are in the job primarily for the good of their country.

The only people who will profit from such distrust are the kleptofascist enemies of democracy.
theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
2/ The kleptocratic right don't need people to support them, they just need people to lose faith in the ability of democratic government to do anything good for them. Once that is done people will just shrug apathetically as democracy is undermined and the NHS is privatised etc..
3/ So Tory corruption and incompetence will in the long term hurt those on the centre and left who say government can do good things. Instead people will listen to the libertarian siren voices who say government must get out of economics, and leave everything to the market.
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