Please retweet if you want Labour LibDems and Greens to form a Progressive Alliance to beat the Tories, introduce PR, and radically reform our battered democracy.
A Progressive Alliance is necessary because what we are facing is not politics as usual. We have the most corrupt government in living memory, and a Tory elite intent on eroding democracy and human rights.
The Tory Brexiters have portrayed themselves as rebels. But when the rich and powerful rebel, they are rebelling against the rest of us. They are rebelling against the democracy, laws and political norms which curb their power.
The Tories were once a mass-membership party representing the middle class and ordinary British businesses. Now the Tory elite serves only itself and its super-rich paymasters. These two groups have no vested interest in democracy and laws and rules that curb their power
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2/ Rees-Mogg's father co-authored "The Sovereign Individual" which forecast that the super-rich would free themselves from national taxation, and ultimately seize control of nation states. Tax havens are key weapons in this kleptocratic war of destruction against democracy.
3/ The cost of failure to eradicate tax havens is crime, corruption, lower living standards, higher taxes, crumbling government services, environmental destruction and growing dissatisfaction with democracy.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.