Thread by @MrMarkEThomas

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Happy New Year!

The last decade has brought serious threats to the health, wealth and freedom of UK citizens.

This thread sets out the challenges and considers what the future may hold.

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In terms of health, the long-term challenge is that the government is keen to dismantle the NHS as we know it today…
99-percent.org/amending-the-h…

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… and the short-term challenge is that the government has adopted – from the outset – a very poor strategy for handling COVID…
99-percent.org/what-is-the-go…

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… With the result that we have both an extremely weak economy and a very high death toll.
99-percent.org/how-does-our-g…

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In combination with Brexit and a decade of austerity, this has ensured that most people are poorer now than they were in 2007 – and government economic policy has nothing to offer them.
99-percent.org/time-to-change…

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And now the government is mounting a systematic assault on our democratic freedoms…
99-percent.org/saving-democra…

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… so that soon it may not even be possible for UK citizens to stage a peaceful protest against government policy
99-percent.org/what-kind-of-c…

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Our analysis shows that there are five possible futures for the UK, and several of them are much more attractive than the status quo, but that we urgently need to change direction.
99-percent.org/through-the-cr…

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The best hope of delivering such change is a progressive alliance – driven both top-down by progressive parties and bottom-up by voters.
99-percent.org/saving-the-uk/

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If you would like to help ensure an attractive future for UK citizens, now is a good time to sign up and join the organisation.
99-percent.org/contact/