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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.
(2/13)
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…
(3/13)
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…
(4/13)
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…
(5/13)
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…
(6/13)
We cannot expect this government to stop our rivers and coastal waters from being pumped full of sewage.
99-percent.org/the-sewage-reb…
(7/13)
We cannot expect this government to tackle the scale of corruption it has created.
(8/13)
We cannot expect this government to govern in the interests of the UK population rather than its donors.
99-percent.org/who-governs-br…
(9/13)
We cannot expect this government to preserve our employment rights.
msn.com/en-gb/lifestyl…
(10/13)
We cannot expect this government to preserve our democratic rights,
99-percent.org/saving-democra…
(11/13)
We cannot expect this government even to leave us with the right to peaceful protest.
99-percent.org/what-kind-of-c…
(12/13)
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.”

99-percent.org/what-is-the-ma…
(13/13)
So we need to choose a government we can expect to do those things.

We need to fight back.
99-percent.org
If you want to help, you can join here:

99-percent.org/contact/
PS They are also, apparently, not responsible for making sure we have food in a crisis.

sustainweb.org/blogs/sep19_go…
PPS And keeping schools safe for our children is clearly not the sort of problem Sunak should be expected to solve. Image

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