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@docrussjackson
Apr 4, 2022 • 9 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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Let's have a little look at the @Conservatives' record since #GE2019:

Ignored warnings & let 180,000 people die

Broke rules & laws that everyone else had to follow, then repeatedly denied doing so

Handed £BILLIONS of OUR money to THEIR mates for CRAP products that didn't work
Killed off social mobility

Steadfastly ignored the plight of disabled people

Sold off to overseas investors almost everything left to sell off

Relentlessly demonised asylum seekers, refugees & migrants

Overseen the biggest transfer of wealth from poor to rich in living memory
Continually lied to voters

Announced their intention to destroy Human Rights

Funded their Party with dirty money from Russian oligarchs

Attacked as 'anti-British' some of our greatest institutions, such as the @BBC, the @RNLI, the @nationaltrust & the @England football team
Voted to ignore corruption

Voted to criminalise protest

Denied structural/institutional racism exists

Voted to let children of impoverished parents starve

Voted to allow removal of UK citizenship without warning

Voted against making rented properties fit for human habitation
Annihilated our public services

Destroyed Britain's half decent reputation

Replaced decent jobs with insecure low-paid ones

Underfunded & turned people against our wonderful #NHS

Overseen the worst #CostOfLivingCrisis in 60 years, making people choose between eating & heating
Downplayed the climate crisis by challenging the scientific consensus on net-zero

Turned our back on our neighbours by leaving the largest trading block in the world

Turned Britain into a broken, isolated, polarised, miserable, inward & backward-looking unwelcoming dystopia.🇬🇧
How did we get here?

Part One - it's taken forty years:

How did we get here?

Part Two - the Boris Johnson years have delivered us "the most antidemocratic, intolerant & authoritarian Government... who are deliberately dismantling the progress Britain has made toward a fairer, meritocratic & equal society."

Civil disobedience is a symbolic violation of the law, rather than a rejection of the whole system: finding legitimate avenues of change blocked or nonexistent, as is the case now, people feel obligated to break specific laws. It helped stop the poll tax.

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#THREAD

Life was demonstrably worse in the 1979 than it is today.

Zymunt Bauman calls this yearning for an imagined past, ‘retrotopia’, in which the ‘Volk’ (the ‘simple folk’, who Reform UK claim to represent) are constructed as homogenous, Christian, white, & ‘indigenous’. Image
Life was demonstrably inferior in the 1970s compared to today for almost everyone in England.

Life expectancy in the UK in 1980 was 71 for men and 77 for women. By 2019, life expectancy at birth in England had increased to 79 years for men & 83.5 for women.
1. Economic Hardship

In 1979, the UK economy was struggling with high inflation, unemployment, and a budget deficit. This eroded purchasing power, making essentials like food, clothing, and housing more expensive relative to wages. "Stagflation" was a significant problem. Image
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'Anti-elite man of the people' Nigel Farage, educated at one of the most expensive private schools on earth, is now the highest paid MP in the UK. His basic annual MP salary is £91,346 plus expenses.

The UK National Living Wage for people aged 21+ is just £12.21/hour. Image
Let's take a look at some of Nigel Farage's additional earnings that he's legally obliged to declare in the MPs Register of interests - and which contains a few surprises - starting with GB "News".

Full details publicly accessible here:

members.parliament.uk/member/5091/re…New York, USA. 15th Dec, 2024. NIGEL FARAGE chats with far-right shit-stirrer and former editor-in-chief of Breitbart News London, RAHEEM KASSAM (who describes London as a "shithole" as The New York Young Republican Club held their annual Gala event at Cipriani's on Wall Street. (Credit Image: © Laura Brett/ZUMA Press)
Between 16th July 2024 and 15th January 2025, Farage decalred earnings of £264,790 for his work as a presenter on Reform UK Ltd's 24/7 propaganda channel, GB "News", co-owned by Islamophobic billionaire hedge-funder, Paul Marshall.

Hourly rate: £2,243/hr

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Late on 22nd January, The @Telegraph claimed on its front page that “One in 12 in London is an illegal migrant.”

Millions of people were shocked and outraged.

This 🧵 is about our broken news media, the subversion of truth and democracy, and the amplification of hate. Image
PART ONE: WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

The front-page article, published in the Daily Telegraph, claiming “London is home to as many as 585,000 illegal migrants, equivalent to one in 12 of the city’s population” was covered across the media and widely discussed by politicians and others. Image
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What does the English Defence League (EDL) have in common with Reform UK?

And what do the EDL and Reform UK have in common with Islamist extremists?

Quite a lot actually...

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The EDL is an Islamophobic protest movement aimed at preserving UK identity and culture in the face of a perceived Islamization of the UK and Europe.

So is Reform UK. Image
The EDL reinforce the notion of the “nationalist subject” - a fallacious conception of citizenship - that wrongly assumes members of the majoritarian culture are possessed of certain core values, beliefs, and traits that embody the true essence of the nation.

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🧵 Quite a few politically & historically illiterate brainwashed Trump-supporters replied or quote-tweeted the tweet below to tell me lifelong democratic socialist George Orwell was not in fact a democratic socialist. Truly Orwellian. So I asked Oligarch Musk's Grok about it...
1. Why was George Orwell a lifelong democratic socialist?

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Evidence of why her prize-winning book has aged well and why @OxUniPress decided to republish it is obvious: numerous instructors continue to assign it, countless historians cite it, and the best Klan scholars have given it well-deserved praise.

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