#THREAD
Since their inception in 1834, the Tory Party has used a tried & tested formula to win votes.
Unless & until politicians take responsibility for exposing & confronting this con-trick, & offer people a positive alternative, we'll be stuck with the cruel & corrupt Tories.
Since their inception in 1834, the Tory Party has used a tried & tested formula to win votes.
Unless & until politicians take responsibility for exposing & confronting this con-trick, & offer people a positive alternative, we'll be stuck with the cruel & corrupt Tories.
The Tory strategy:
Form an alliance with the very rich, & represent their interests.
Keep house prices artificially inflated by not building enough homes.
Give press barons, corporate lobbyists, & free-market think tanks untrammelled access to, & influence over, Government.
Form an alliance with the very rich, & represent their interests.
Keep house prices artificially inflated by not building enough homes.
Give press barons, corporate lobbyists, & free-market think tanks untrammelled access to, & influence over, Government.
Promise lower taxes by defunding, cutting, privatising, or outsourcing the essential public services needed for a decent society.
Sell off publicly owned assets, often built up over centuries, to private interests, transferring public wealth to their rich funders & supporters.
Sell off publicly owned assets, often built up over centuries, to private interests, transferring public wealth to their rich funders & supporters.
Divide & rule by using populist nationalist rhetoric & by demonising & scapegoating groups unlikely to support them: poor, vulnerable, & disabled people; young people; certain minorities; public sector workers; activists; union members; academics; migrants/foreigners; & the Left.
The tried & tested Tory political strategy:
How did we get here?
Forty years of unhindered, globalised, deregulatory free-market capitalism, which has seen an unprecedented transfer of power & unimaginable wealth, from poor to rich.
It may already be too late to halt & then reverse it.
Forty years of unhindered, globalised, deregulatory free-market capitalism, which has seen an unprecedented transfer of power & unimaginable wealth, from poor to rich.
It may already be too late to halt & then reverse it.
https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1359445197113950208?s=20&t=b7ir247JcKAfgCw7itOtmQ
Here's another #THREAD showing what a hateful, cruel, ignorant & barbaric little country Britain has become, which compares how successive British Govts have gone about crime & justice, with an emphasis on prison & rehabilitation, in contrast with Norway.
https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1502699771856891913?s=20&t=Z8fhypR4QJeFpXSr_8la8A
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