Thread by @MrMarkEThomas

1.Because, as expected, Sunak's Budget fails to tackle the cost of living crisis.
99-percent.org/cost-of-living…

2.Because Johnson is the leader of an unprecedentedly corrupt party
99-percent.org/corruption-in-…

3.Because when the corruption becomes apparent, Johnson’s immediate response is to try to legalise it
99-percent.org/legalising-cor…

4.Because Johnson’s government acts on behalf of donors, not UK citizens
99-percent.org/who-governs-br…

5.Because the rest of the cabinet is as bad as Johnson himself

https://twitter.com/MrMarkEThomas/status/1489941631172231169?s=20&t=LQSKW2ib2AI-w_RQm27Dlw

6.Because they are aiming to turn the UK into a country like Singapore, which is great for rich foreigners, but not for ordinary people.
99-percent.org/shall-we-be-ha…

7.Because they really do not value the lives of those who are not rich:
“to a market fundamentalist, these people are not worth what it costs to keep them alive. ... being forced to sustain them is an unjustified burden.”
99-percent.org/what-is-the-ma…

8.Which is why they have followed a strategy that was always bound to lead to a very high COVID death toll
99-percent.org/what-is-the-go…

9.And why they surrendered unconditionally to the virus rather than fighting it 99-percent.org/leadership-in-…

10.Leaving us with one of the world’s worst records

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11.And this is why they have underfunded the NHS for so many years
99-percent.org/crisis-what-cr…

12.And are now aiming to turn it into something much more like the US system
99-percent.org/nhs-inc/

13.Which is responsible for two-thirds of personal bankruptcies
99-percent.org/the-reality-of…

14.After 12 years of misrule, they are still pretending that they ‘cannot afford’ to fund the NHS or raise pay in line with inflation
thelondoneconomic.com/news/nhs-worke…

15.Even though they had no trouble finding £billions to siphon-off to their mates and donors for PPE much of which turned out to be unusable 99-percent.org/money-for-noth…

16.And they had no problem earmarking £37 billion (!) for test & trace – which again went largely to their cronies
99-percent.org/whats-in-a-nam…

17.Despite all their denials, they have been busy privatising the NHS 99-percent.org/four-ways-to-p…

18.And the Health & Care Bill will enable them to accelerate the shift 99-percent.org/amending-the-h…

19.Sunak, like Osborne, keeps claiming that his harmful decisions are caused by ‘fiscal conservatism’ despite the obvious fact that this debt hysteria has damaged the economy as a whole.
99-percent.org/debt-hysteria/

20.And so we have one of the weakest economies of any developed country
99-percent.org/time-to-change…

21.Our economic weakness is down to mishandling of all three of the government’s major issues: Austerity, Brexit and COVID 99-percent.org/austerity-brex…

22.Austerity should never have happened

99-percent.org/who-still-beli…

23.On Brexit, they chose a hugely damaging hard Brexit
99-percent.org/a-no-deal-brex…

24.And on COVID, they have given us the worst of both worlds 99-percent.org/how-does-our-g…

25.And it is not just(!) these issues they have mishandled – they are doing nothing to help the environment. Pumping our rivers full of sewage… 99-percent.org/the-sewage-reb…

26.… and a series of budgets that do less than nothing to address climate change 99-percent.org/a-tired-defeat…

27.Their policies mean that – astonishingly – most people are poorer today than they were in 2007. And it is set to get worse.

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28.Fortunately, we are collectively beginning to realise all this, and their position is far more fragile than they would like us to believe 99-percent.org/the-fragility-…

29.We can get them out if we understand the political challenge
99-percent.org/saving-the-uk/

30.It will take only 5 fairly straightforward actions to begin to reverse these damaging trends and build a future where on average each year is BETTER than the last.
99-percent.org/five-actions-t…

31.If you would like to help, join us. 99-percent.org/contact/