The corrupt anti-democratic Tories are forcing voters to show ID at polling stations from next year, despite just 34 allegations of in-person voter fraud in 2019, & eight in 2018.
They know up to 3 million voters lack the necessary ID to vote in person.
How do they keep getting away with this shit? By getting their billionaire non-dom & foreign chums Rupert Murdoch, Jonathan Harmsworth & the remaining Barclay brother to continue the longest running anti-progressive #propaganda campaign in history.
Evidence shows that forcing voters to bring photographic ID to the polling station just makes it harder for people to vote while doing little to increase faith in the integrity of the system, & the Govt think the scheme could cost £180,000,000 a decade.
Just 0.0008% of the UK electorate committed voter fraud. For this, the Govt is disenfranchising the 3 million or so of the electorate who don’t have ID, the majority of whom are young &/or from disadvantaged & BAME backgrounds, who tend to vote @UKLabour.
#Disinformation is a threat to democracies the world over. In response, the Biden administration set up a "Disinformation Governance Board". Confirming the need for it, every right-wing crank, media outlet, & social media account in the US has dubbed it the "Ministry of Truth".🤪
99% of these clueless paranoid drones have an absurdly simplistic understanding of free speech, have never read ANY of DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST George Orwell's books, & support the global network of libertarian billionaires brainwashing them into accepting a brutal pathocracy. 🤬
Another intelligent socialist these robotic unthinking dimwits disregard is Albert Einstein, who states the very obvious truth that the concentration of media ownership by a handful of billionaires is motivated solely by a desire to protect & enhance their wealth & power.
Since Elon Musk's offer was accepted, there's been a flood of controversial hard/far-right accounts returning to @Twitter, keen to turn it into Parler2.
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk irresponsibly & falsely claims there's a "war on white people in the west".
Allow me to share a few facts about Charlie Kirk & Turning Point USA.
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) was founded in 2012 by Illinois college student Charlie Kirk as a supposed antidote to the “scourge” of 'liberal thought' overwhelming American campuses.
On Murdoch's Fox News, Kirk railed against campus leftists, the supposed oppression of conservative thought, & the conservative talking points of the day.
Yesterday was the worst day for UK democracy in 200 years: following the 1819 #PeterlooMassacre, the UK Govt introduced draconian legislation, reminiscent of the #PoliceBill - the so-called 'Six Acts', which aimed at suppressing any meetings for the purpose of radical reform.
As for the Elections Bill, there were just 6 cases of in-person electoral fraud at #GE2019. For this, the Govt is disenfranchising 3 million or so of the electorate who don’t have ID, the majority of whom are young &/or from poorer & BAME backgrounds, who tend to vote @UKLabour.
As for the UK Government's grotesque Nationality & Borders Bill - & the abhorrent 'deal' with #Rwanda - it has been universally criticised by human rights organisations because, shamefully, it "undermines established international refugee protection law".
Well here we are. A once proud & half decent nation turned into one of the most polarised, antidemocratic & authoritarian populist nationalist 'advanced economies' on earth, in just a few short years.
So Tories have: criminalised protest; introduced laws meaning journalists can be jailed for 14 years for embarrassing the Govt; removed independence from the Electoral Commission; introduced voter ID despite just 6 cases at #GE2019; & banned teaching anti-capitalism in schools.😬