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Feb 26 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I've just blocked a fellow lefty. We have much in common & want similar things, but I'm bored of hearing about Great Reset Globalists, how vaccinations are basically a cover for fascism, & how Canadian truckers are treated worse than the Russians in Moscow protesting against war.
It's sad, & Lord knows I have tried to be reasonable, but life is too short. I'm fine disagreeing with people - it's healthy, & I often welcome it! But the thing that clinched it for me was how he constantly belittles & insults anyone who disagrees with him about anything. Sigh.
It's getting like a confessional! I don't wish him any ill will at all - he might even be right FFS! But I suspect not, & it saps my energy, so onward! Maybe we'll make up when the shit really hits the fan & everyone on the Left finally figures out a way to unite! One can dream..
A few of you have suggested that this might be evidence to support the 'horseshoe' theory of politics, which I'm not convinced by, even though occasionally, the words, actions, or interests of 'extreme' Left & 'extreme' Right do coincide.

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Feb 27
Let's take a look at Jeremy Corbyn's recent position on #NATO.

Corbyn has been a long-term critic, especially of NATO's expansion eastward, but here's a quick #THREAD on his position since he threw his notorious hat into the Labour leadership contest.
Jeremy Corbyn’s stance on #NATO before he became @UKLabour leader is often paraphrased as “wanting to pull out” of the alliance, but there's no evidence of him using this form of words.
Corbyn generally talked about wishing that #NATO would restrict its role in world affairs or agree to dissolve itself, rather than actively calling for Britain to pull out.
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Feb 27
In 2014, Andrei Illarionov, former economic policy advisor to Vladimir Putin from 2000-2005, predicted that Vladimir Putin was going to implement a military operation to effectively establish political control over Ukraine.
Illarionov suggested that Vladimir Putin would seek to incorporate Ukraine, Belarus, parts of Georgia & the Baltic states" into Russia.

On 9 June, he predicted a Russian attempt of establishing political control over the entirety of Ukraine.
Illarionov says that according to Putin, Transnistria, the part of the Moldovan republic which lies on the left bank of River Dniester, belongs to 'historic Russia' - Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania without a little strip belongs to historic Russia.
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Feb 24
Who said this, just after WWII, in 1946?

"What is this sovereign remedy? It is to re-create the European Family, or as much of it as we can, & provide it with a structure under which it can dwell in peace, in safety & in freedom. We must build a kind of United States of Europe."
"The process is simple. All that's needed is the resolve of hundreds of millions of men & women to do right instead of wrong... If we are to form the United States of Europe or whatever name or form it may take, we must begin now."
"Our constant aim must be to build & fortify the strength of the United Nations. Under & within that world concept, we must re-create the European family in a regional structure called, it may be, the United States of Europe. The first step is to form a Council of Europe."
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Feb 23
Read @EmmaLBriant's response to Govt Consultation on proposed legislation in response to "hostile threats" that will reform the Official Secrets Acts which includes espionage offences, unauthorised disclosure of official material & its onward disclosure.

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The proposed changes seek the creation of a Foreign Influence Registration Scheme — a tool similar to the US Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), to help address opaque foreign influence & lobbying in the UK.
"The measures to expand the Official Secrets Act are far more troubling & as others have suggested would end both whistleblowing & journalism as we know it, along with any ability for the public to make informed judgements about the conduct of this or any future Govt in wartime."
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Feb 23
#THREAD Putin, Corbyn & Russian money...

In Parliament on March 13th, 2018, after the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, Corbyn drew attention to the Govt “resisting Labour’s amendments to the Sanctions & Anti-Money Laundering Bill that could introduce the so-called Magnitsky powers”.
The @Conservatives responded with cries of “shame” & “disgrace”, which were loudest when Corbyn attacked them for having so many extremely wealthy Russian donors giving them huge amounts of cash.

But ignore the backbenchers, & listen instead to Putin's actual opponents.
What do those brave men & women around the world risking their lives to fight Putin have to say? A cursory look will tell you that what they have to say sounds rather more like Jeremy Corbyn than anything then PM Theresa May or any other Tory at the time had to say on the matter.
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Feb 22
80,000 PIP decisions overturned last year - during the pandemic.

That's not 'human error' - it's systematic, state-sanctioned cruelty, & the deliberate persecution of some of Britain's most vulnerable people.

Utterly despicable. 🤬
In 2018 the Tory govt admitted they spent £200million fighting to stop people getting sickness & disability benefits: at least 4,600 disabled people were wrongly stripped of their benefits & it was found guilty by the UN of “grave & systematic violations” against disabled people.
As long ago as 2016, it was widely reported that a UN inquiry concluded that #austerity policies introduced into welfare and social care by the UK Tory government amount to “systematic violations” of the rights of people with disabilities.

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