A short #THREAD on some of the controversies surrounding Tory MP, Ben Bradley.
Bradley attracted criticism for a 2012 blog post in which he wrote of a "vast sea of unemployed wasters", who he suggested should have vasectomies in order to stop them having multiple children.
In 2016 Bradley was forced to apologise for having written "For once, I think police brutality should be encouraged!" in 2011, three days after Mark Duggan was killed by the Metropolitan Police, an event which led to the 2011 riots in London and other English cities.
In 2018 Bradley was further criticised for a 2011 blog post titled "Public sector workers: they don't know they're born!", in which he suggested that public sector workers should find alternative employment if they are unhappy with low pay or deteriorating working conditions.
In 2016, Bradley claimed Ashfield District Council had spent £17,000 paying an Indian company to call local residents from a call centre in Mumbai.
Contacted by a local journalists, he said: "I admit the post about using an Indian call centre was untrue & I took it down."
Whilst working for the Conservative MP Mark Spencer, both Bradley & Spencer were criticised in 2017 by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards for misusing taxpayers' resources, such as the MP's newsletter, to link to "overtly party-political content".
In 2018, Bradley falsely accused Jeremy Corbyn of having "sold British secrets to communist spies" in the 80s. Corbyn responded & Bradley deleted the tweet, issued a full apology, agreed to make a substantial donation to a charity of Corbyn's choice & paid Corbyn's legal costs.
A spokesman for Corbyn stated that the donation would be split between a homeless charity & a food bank, in Bradley's constituency of Mansfield.
Two Conservative Party donors - David Brownlow & Sir Mick Davis - paid the £15,000 donation to the charities on behalf of Bradley.
Emails sent by Ben Bradley in 2016 revealed Bradley had berated a local journalist, & threatened to cut off media access to the local Tory party, after revealing Bradley vociferously defended a Tory councillor sharing Facebook memes mocking Muslims & disabled benefits claimants.
This was in response to the journalist approaching Bradley for a comment on the series of Islamophobic & disablist posts made on a Tory councillor's Facebook page.
Bradley's response accused the journalist of 'childish backstabbing', described the Islamophobia story as 'crap'.
On 23 October 2020, Bradley said that free school meal vouchers for deprived children in his constituency effectively handed cash directly to crack dens & brothels. His comments were criticised by many schools, food banks & anti-child poverty charities in Bradley's constituency.
Tulip Siddiq write to the co-chairwoman of the Conservative Party: "I am sure that you will want to make clear that this kind of crass stigmatisation of children from poorer families is deeply damaging, and distance yourself from Mr Bradley's misleading and troubling comments".
Bradley signed the hard-right 'Common Sense Group''s letter accusing the @nationaltrust of being "coloured by cultural Marxist dogma".
"Cultural Marxism" is the debunked, hateful, & divisive antisemitic conspiracy theory that inspired far-right terrorist Anders Breivik.
On 2nd February 2022, it was revealed by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority that Ben Bradley's total Business costs for the 2020/21 financial year were £212,299 - more than the £209,859 the previous year - & more than £10,000 above the average for all MPs.
Draw your own conclusions about the kind of people the Tory Party values. Imho, there should be no place for the dangerously irresponsible rhetoric used by Ben Bradley, who is Chair of the troubling right-wing populist group, 'Blue Collar @Conservatives'.
A handful of selfish sociopathic billionaires and the populist politicians and media they fund have deliberately divided and radicalised millions of people across the world, solely to protect their wealth and power.
They claim to want to help “save children” while spreading distrust of experts, reputable journalism, climate science, and vaccines — which have saved over 100 million children since 1974.
By dividing the public, they protect their wealth and power.
Rather than justify how their wealth was earned, these elites cultivate scepticism of their critics and of expertise itself.
This deliberate erosion of trust shields their interests while undermining the science that saves lives and protects our planet.
Robert Jenrick closed his Conference speech with: “Let’s build this NEW ORDER. Let’s TAKE our country back.” Hitler's “New Order” was a vision for an Aryan-led Europe which involved exterminating or enslaving “undesirable” minorities.
In Britain, a group of prominent MPs—including Nigel Farage, Lee Anderson, Rupert Lowe, Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman—are normalising far-right discourse through three recurring frames/themes: invasion, scapegoating for cultural destruction, and demographic replacement.
Let's talk about chainsaw enthusiast, Musk buddy, and darling of the global free-market right, Javier Milei.
Let’s look at which UK politicians and news media have been most effusive in their praise for him, and at whats happened to Argentina since he was elected in 2023.
Milei’s election as President of Argentina in November 2023 was met with enthusiasm from right-wing news media and populist politicians who praised his libertarian, anti-establishment platform as a model for radical economic reform.
Support was often framed in the context of Thatcherite principles, with Milei seen as a disruptor against "socialism".
1. Kemi Badenoch celebrated Milei as a "template" for her own potential Government, aspiring to be "Britain’s version of Javier Milei".
A global evangelical Christian ARMY linked to TPUSA/TPUK, "fighting for the Britain whose church missioned & colonised the dark, demonic, heathen world with light, truth & salvation", founded by a former British boy band member addicted to cocaine until he found God?
WTAF!🤯
'The King's Army' is a non-denominational Christian evangelism and discipleship movement launched in the UK mid-2024 - a "spiritual army" of believers enlisted to combat sin, cultural decay, and "darkness" through aggressive street outreach, prayer marches and public protests. 🤪
Drawing on biblical military metaphors, it emphasises "virtue and valor" among Christians, urging them to "stop living like civilians and start fighting like soldiers!"
It targets young men for recruitment, standing against issues like secularism and "immoral culture"!
Two people have died and three are in a serious condition following a suspected terror attack on a Manchester synagogue. Muslim leaders have condemned the attack. The suspect was shot dead by Police.
Some @X accounts are blaming Starmer. What's this got to do with @elonmusk?
Since Musk bought Twitter in October 2022 and rebranded it as @X, the platform has transformed from a space for news and debate into a megaphone for hate, disinformation, and extremist ideology.
The consequences are now spilling into the streets.
Musk’s first act as owner was to gut @X’s safety and moderation teams, firing around 80% of staff responsible for enforcing hate-speech and misinformation policies.
Ellison (~$390bn), Musk (~£385bn), and Zuckerberg (~$260): the three richest men on earth.
Ellison is buying TikTok. He controls nearly 50% of Paramount Skydance and wants Warner Bros Discovery. Carrie Symonds's dad is a director of his Foundation.
For more than a century, some of the richest people on earth have bought up various media in order to shape politics and public opinion in a way that protects their wealth and power from democracy.
Musk, Zuckerberg and Ellison are doing precisely this on steroids.
These billionaires are reshaping the world into a dystopia that makes The Handmaids Tale look quaint.
Ellison owns 98% of one of the largest Hawaiian Islands, rolls out his total global surveillance system called 'The Oracle' to ensure 'good behaviour'.