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With all the government is doing, it is hard to keep track of the big picture.

There is a real risk of the UK becoming the world’s first ‘formerly developed nation.’

The government has mishandled its three challenges
99-percent.org/austerity-brex…
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On COVID, almost alone among world governments, it has declared unconditional surrender to the virus.
99-percent.org/leadership-in-…
(3/14)
Which will increase the likelihood of bodies piling high, especially among more deprived groups.
(4/14)
But it is not just(!) the poor economic performance and high death toll we should worry about. The government is also unwinding our democracy…
99-percent.org/saving-democra…
(5/14)
…getting rid of our right to peaceful protest…
99-percent.org/what-kind-of-c…
(6/14)
…and making sure that while we talk about ‘equality under the law’ there will be a very different law for them than for us.
99-percent.org/what-is-happen…
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Which is a core objective of the market fundamentalist agenda.
“The new Sovereign Individual will operate like the gods of myth in the same physical environment as the ordinary, subject citizen, but in a separate realm politically.”
99-percent.org/what-is-the-ma…
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As is deconstructing the post-war social contract, starting with the Welfare State, which they claim is no longer affordable.
(9/14)

And the NHS which has long been under a stealth assault.
(10/14)
As they turn our country into a #PlunderState
99-percent.org/malice-in-plun…
(11/14)
With increasingly blatant corruption
(12/14)
Fortunately, the façade is becoming more fragile.
99-percent.org/the-fragility-…
(13/14)
And it will only take five fairly common-sense actions to reverse this dangerous trend.
99-percent.org/five-actions-t…
(14/14)
If you would like to stop the UK turning into a banana republic (but without the benefit of bananas) then join the 99% Organisation.
99-percent.org/contact/

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