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Feb 8 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
When the likes of Steve Baker try to oppose Climate Change mitigation on the grounds that carbon neutral measures will make working people ‘cold and poor’, this is what Baker did for working people over the years. theguardian.com/politics/2022/… Image
Also Steve, not very keen on trade unions, which, though this may sound a bit old-fashioned, help defend employment rights and working conditions. Or legal aid (Clue: poor people often need it) ImageImage
Though he doesn’t mind the poor having a little flutter! Image
But it can safely be said that Steve’s priorities, when it comes to working people, or the cold and poor, lie elsewhere: ImageImageImage
So when he comes to you, weeping and gnashing his teeth about the impact of carbon neutral measures on the poor, it’s a fairly safe bet that he’s lying through his fanatical reactionary teeth, and is operating according to a very different agenda.

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One of the many morbid consequences of our post-Brexit dystopia is the way its advocates continually pretend everything is the opposite of what it actually is. So that even Truss's humiliation in Moscow is a sign that Russia 'is rattled' by the UK's ineffective diplomacy.
It's the same with everything: mediocre trade deals become dazzling coups; Covid failures become a triumph for the PM; lorry queues are evidence of 'EU bureaucracy' - every failure is dressed up as a success or a failure on someone else's part. Needless to say,
No serious country can continue to do this indefinitely. It may work domestically - for a while. But weakness, chaos, government failure, and declining power will always be visible internationally, especially to countries that want to take advantage of these factors.
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How things work in a crumbling democracy

1/ PM uses far-right ‘paedo’ conspiracy theory to smear LOTO purely in order to distract attention from his own egregious rule breaking? PM does this despite being warned by his own advisors not to do it.
2/Outcry ensues. The PM’s own policy chief resigns, supposedly in protest. Some Tory MPs denounce PM’s actions

3/Cabinet members refuse to do this

4/ PM issues fake ‘explanation’, accusing critics of getting ‘hot under the collar.’ Says he wasn’t accusing LOTO of anything
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6/RIghtwing newspaper publishes article by Tory client journalist Andrew Pierce echoing smear against LOTO
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It is offensive and disturbing, but Johnson has no moral high ground from which to condemn anyone for offensive and disturbing ‘jokes’ and is only ‘blasting’ Carr as a brand-changing gimmick (Well done Guto Harri!) Image
You like racist jokes? Jonners has a few:

‘All the young people I know – ie those under 30 – are just as avaricious as we flinty Thatcherite yuppies of the 1980s in fact, they have an almost Nigerian interest in money and gadgets of all kinds.’
How about sick children? This one’s edgy… Image
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Downing Street’s tactical decision to hide Bertie Booster in the fridge in order to stop the negative headlines is hilariously backfiring.

1) They try to spin a spy story on Labour only for it to be revealed that Johnson took £45,000 from her and didn’t declare it! Also…
It turns out that Cameron and May also cultivated the same source, and the story is in any case at least five years old. As devastating counter-attacks go, this is like being assaulted by hamsters nibbling at the toes of the person who sent them.

Meanwhile…
2)The parties keep coming. Friday night piss ups at Downing Street. A special fridge bought, not for Bertie to hide in, but to keep that wine chilled for the big chillax…Who knew Tories liked to party 🎉 like this. Gives the term ‘Tory Party’ a new meta meaning. And…
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Interesting that so many fascists and nationalist populists across the world seem to think Novax Djokovic is a 'hero' for enduring exactly the same detention conditions that they applaud when refugees and asylum seekers are subjected to them - in some cases for years. #AusOpen
I wonder if this partly explains it: euronews.com/2022/01/07/nov…
Or this...
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Exactly right from Rhian Graham of the #Colston4. This quotation can’t be shared enough. theguardian.com/world/2022/jan… Image
This is how Merriam-Webster-Webster defines ‘woke.’ So when the right uses it as an insult, they are revelling in and actively promoting a contrary definition, as in Image
‘Unaware of and actively disinterested in important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice).

Who would be proud of that? Who would think that is a moral code worth living by?
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