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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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Nov 4
#THREAD

Tory & Reform UK MPs, #TuftonSt lobbyists, & Media Barons Rupert Murdoch, Jonathan Harmsworth & Paul Marshall despise two of Britain’s most loved institutions: our @BBC & our #NHS.

They use their power to undermine them.

Why?

And who is the new @BBC Chair, Samir Shah?
For these individuals & organisations, our @BBC & #NHS are a constant reminder that free-market capitalism is a profoundly flawed ideology fuelling greed & climate change, & that not every large organisation should either be a charity or be owned by shareholders & run for profit.
This thread focuses on how @BBCNews & @BBCPolitics output has, since 2000, become increasingly skewed to the right & a vehicle for defending free-market capitalism.

I'd need to write a 100K word thesis to cover everything I want to say about the @BBC, but I'll convey the basics.
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Nov 2
#THREAD

English neo-Nazi who stabbed asylum seeker was a serial stalker.

Terrorist Callum Parslow was previously jailed for sending 10 women sexually explicit and misogynistic messages, and even targeted a black former GB "News" presenter.

theguardian.com/politics/2024/…
A neo-Nazi terrorist who was found guilty last month of the attempted murder of an asylum seeker is a prolific online stalker who had previously been jailed and referred to the #Prevent counter-terrorism scheme.

Parslow was convicted on 25 October of attempted murder after stabbing an asylum seeker at a hotel in April. He was jailed in 2018 for targeting 10 women and girls with messages describing sexually motivated murder, torture and rape, and then changed his name after his release.
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Oct 16
🧵ASYLUM QUIZ

We hear A LOT about Small Boats & Migrant Hotels, but basic facts are often misrepresented.

Q1 When compared to EU countries plus Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein & Norway, where did the UK rank in 2023 by per capita asylum applications? (1st=most)

DON'T CHEAT
ANSWER to Q1:

When adjusted by population size, the UK received the 20th highest number of applications: 12.5 per 10,000 residents.

Q2 Where did the UK rank in 2023 in ACCEPTING/APPROVING per capita asylum applications?

(1st=most, 31st=last).
ANSWER TO Q2

Adjusted for population size, the UK ranks 10th: in 2023 we granted protection to 9 asylum seekers per 10,000 of our resident population.

Germany had 351,000 asylum applicants (compared to our 80,000), granting protection to 135,000 people (compared to our 62,000). Image
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Oct 14
#THREAD

'Divide and Rule'.

What if the 1% are deliberately manufacturing deeply polarised societies?

What if the differences between, for example, the "woke and anti-woke", Leavers and Remainers, migrants and non-migrants are deliberately exaggerated, or entirely manufactured? Image
What if the 1% remain powerful because they invest in the strategy of Divide & Rule?

For many reasons, including ignorance, desperation, trauma, stupidity & selfishness, millions of people respect & even vote for shameless, divisive, dangerously irresponsible sociopathic liars. Image
One way to account for this is to look at the gradual & shameless normalisation of lies & inflammatory speech. Another (related) way is to look at the role of ourselves and our media.

Professsor Ruth Wodak has spent decades examined the former.

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#THREAD

A January amendment to the Online Safety Act 2023 allows for the prosecution of those who convey information they know to be false & “if the person intended the message, or the information in it, to cause non-trivial psychological or physical harm to a likely audience”. Image
The #Southport stabbing was on 29th July. At 4.44pm on 30th July, Tommy Robinson posted a tweet to his more than 1 million followers on @X, referring to Muslims and saying "people need to rise up", and "our daughters are being butchered in dance classes".

theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…Image
Bernadette Spofforth, alleged to have been the first to tweet Southport disinformation on @X, was arrested on 8th August, but on 18th September police said that following an investigation... “no further action will be taken due to insufficient evidence.”

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#THREAD

'The Left' can be defined on the basis of its 'egalitarian drive': its credo is to remove—also through state intervention—barriers that make people unequal, advocating equal rights & opportunities for all.

So how might we define 'the far-right'?

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
The following 🧵quotes extensively from the 2022 article 'Far right: The significance of an umbrella concept', by Andrea Pirro, published in Nations and Nationalism, a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research on nationalism and related issues.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/146981…
The Right is described as non-egalitarian, precisely because its models of political and social order are rooted in the necessity and legitimacy of institutionalised inequality.

Broadly, the right seeks to maintain a status quo whereby differences between people are entrenched.
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