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Feb 10 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
7 STEPS FROM DEMOCRACY TO DICTATORSHIP
"Democracy doesn't disappear over night. RW populism doesn't goose-step into power fully formed, it CREEPS!"
7 SIGNS
1. Create a populist nationalist MOVEMENT #Brexit
Target the 'left behind'
Erdogan called it 'the will of the REAL people'😲
2. Ignore rational EXPERTS: infantalize language eg simple slogans & post-truth politics! #LiarJohnson
3. Immorality #ToriesDevoidOfShame eg #ToriesPartiedWhilePeopleDied
4. Dismantle political/judicial mechanisms eg #RuleOfLaw
Install your own people & toy with institutions!🔥
5. Design your own Citizen!
#JohnsonRegime eg Heaton-Harris dictating how academics lecture on #Brexit & Education Sec says students can't criticise PM!
(Erdogan now arrests critics!)

6. Laugh at the Horror! Inhumane cruelty RE refugees, Afghanistan, kids in poverty! #PartyGate!
7. Build Your Own Country: "Take back control" "Make Great Again"
-faux patriotism, Culture Wars, xenophobia/racism, nationalism stoking ANTIPATHY!
Loot the state to enrich donors & cronies! State-banks remove checks for unsecured loans etc #ToryCronyism #CORRUPTION
#CovidFRAUD
EXPERTS WARNING of #DemocraticBacksliding in UK!!
NB While we're distracted with #PartyGate:

"A raft of bills likely to pass this year will set Britain, self-professed beacon of democracy, on the road to #autocracy" @nytimes

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OMG! Disgusting bullying & intimidation!
@carolecadwalla is BRAVE journalist awarded @TheOrwellPrize & @PulitzerPrizes finalist! Exposed SERIOUS undermining of democracy now at last being admitted by Govt! She deserves @NobelPrize & peerage! @UKHouseofLords
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@sophieraworth on @bbcsml talks to @mvankerkhove of @WHO: @WHO advises keep measures eg masks, WFH for the time being!
RE "PM's plans to end self-isolation rules for people with #Covid in the coming weeks"
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NATIONAL IMPORTANCE #Lawfare 20/1/22
@DavidDavisMP
'..those with exceptionally deep pockets & exceptionally questionable ethics. These people use our justice system to threaten, intimidate & put the fear of God into British journalists, citizens, officials & media organisations..
What results is injustice, intimidation, suppression of free speech, the crushing of a free press, bullying& bankruptcy. It results in protection from investigation & gives encouragement to fraudsters, crooks & money launderers...

(@DavidDavisMP speech on #Lawfare & #SLAPP cont)
It's turned London into the global capital of dirty money. In extreme cases, it can undermine the SECURITY OF THE STATE by allowing people to act as extensions of foreign powers.
This is LAWFARE—lawfare against British freedom of speech, lawfare against the freedom of the press
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Dec 3, 2021
@carryonkeith @GarethDaviesNAO on @IanKingSky on #BounceBack loan #Fraud!!
='£17bn uncollectable, 5bn fraud'...BUT DAMNING APPRAISAL GETS WORSE!! LONG THREAD!!
Eg. Govt removed credit checks so no idea of credit worthiness!
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@carryonkeith @GarethDaviesNAO @IanKingSky MORE EXAMPLES:
1.'DUPLICATE PAYMENT CONTROL': Spotting ppl who were making #BounceBack loan applications to multiple banks, that wasn't brought in for a month which might not sound v much but in this scheme £28 BILLION was lent in the 1st month & by far the busiest month!...
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@carryonkeith @GarethDaviesNAO @IanKingSky So before any duplicate checks in place, £28 bn had gone out the door!😱😬
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Jan 11, 2021
Great speech by @EmilyThornberry in Global Britain Debate!
But OMG!!!
Now #Theresa May speech is ASTONISHING!😲 @carolecadwalla @mrjamesob
Global Britain: It's about more than trade, it's about "shared values, our respect for human dignity, human rights, equality, the #RuleofLaw
freedom, democracy..it's about how we work with others.& maintain rules-based order which protects those values..
Sadly what we saw last wk in US shows us how fragile..democracy can be when it is under pressure from #populism & #nationalism fuelled by messages disseminated on SM!
At current pt for UK post Brexit dealing with Covid, yet to deal with societal & economic impacts..imperative we reject any push toward nationalism & isolationism😱
Move away from strong men facing upto each other..& find ways to work with those who share our values under threat
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Jan 11, 2021
AT LAST MSM ATTENTION!!
UK WAKING UP to threats to democracy!! @carolecadwalla @peterjukes @mrjamesob @campbellclaret @JMPSimor @CommonsForeign @fascinatorfun @IanDunt @sueperkins @HackedOffHugh @BestForBritain @TheNewEuropean
WARNINGS YEARS AGO!! Eg MUST WATCH @ActMeasuresDoc
This is an IMPORTANT podcast episode too!!
Esp concerning financial loopholes undermining our elections, enabling foreign interference by malign forces!!😱😭#RussiaReport #Disinformation #DefendDemocracy
Cynical of timing!? Many have been exposing these serious threats for YEARS Eg @carolecadwalla but demeaned by @BBCPolitics eg @Afneil & #Marr!🙄
Govt ignored recommendations of @CommonsForeign report on 'Moscow's Gold' & @CommonsDCMS on Disinformation! 😬
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