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Sunak says that “government can’t be expected to solve every problem.”
Here is a list of problems this government cannot be expected to solve.
If we want them solved, we need a different government.
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We cannot expect this government to solve the cost-of-living crisis.
“Where other governments have supported consumers and small business and imposed windfall taxes and price caps on energy companies, ours has declined to act.” 99-percent.org/cost-of-living…
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We cannot expect this government to fund the NHS properly.
“We shouldn’t always go first to the state – what kind of society would that be? Health and Social Care: it begins at home. It should be family first, then the community then the state.” 99-percent.org/amending-the-h…
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We cannot expect this government to prevent the UK from having a COVID death toll among the 30 worst in the world. statista.com/statistics/110…
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We cannot expect this government to stop the UK from having an economic performance worse than virtually every major developed economy. 99-percent.org/time-to-change…
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We cannot expect this government to stop our rivers and coastal waters from being pumped full of sewage. 99-percent.org/the-sewage-reb…
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We cannot expect this government to tackle the scale of corruption it has created.
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We cannot expect this government even to leave us with the right to peaceful protest. 99-percent.org/what-kind-of-c…
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We cannot even expect this government to treat us as having rights as citizens.
“The new Sovereign Individual will operate ... in the same physical environment as the ordinary, subject citizen, but in a separate realm politically.”
When it was clear that Johnson was on the way out, the Conservatives launched "Operation Save Big Dog".
This thread explores "Operation Save Little Dog" – the equivalent for Sunak.
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In Johnson’s case, the plan was to sack his advisors and civil servants and blame them for everything that Johnson might otherwise be held responsible for. independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
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Sunak’s plan is better thought-through.
Although this was written as satire, it seems as though it accurately captures the breadth of operations being carried out by Sunak and his team.
📷 99-percent.org/how-sunak-can-…
This thread explores the link between Silver Blaze and last week’s Labour Party conference.
In Silver Blaze, Sherlock Holmes has both to solve a killing and find a missing race-horse – and of course he does both.
Colonel Ross is the owner of the Silver Blaze: ...
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Ross: “Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?”
Holmes: “To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.”
Ross: “The dog did nothing in the night-time.”
Holmes: “That was the curious incident.”
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This seems like a metaphor for last week’s Labour Party Conference (LPC23):
The conference was disciplined and well-attended;
It has been well-received by the press, the public and by senior figures outside the party;
The curious incident was what was not said.
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Thirteen years of increasingly far-right policies have left the UK visibly broken: we have a cost-of-living crisis; our NHS is on its knees and our schools are crumbling; and we have rivers flowing with sewage and an unaddressed climate emergency.
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As a result, the Conservatives are now roughly 20 points behind in the polls and seem likely to lose the next election, possibly quite badly. politico.eu/europe-poll-of…
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But they still have up to 16 months to turn the polls around. On April 1, we posted a satirical piece setting out how Sunak could still aim to cling to power, using a variety of unethical tactics. 99-percent.org/how-sunak-can-…