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Tax-avoiding non-dom billionaire Frederick Barclay's Telegraph: "The suspicion must be that the only real purpose to the Chancellor’s announcements was to distract attention from the #Partygate saga... Taxpayers & investors in energy firms will bear the immediate cost."
Tax-avoiding non-dom billionaire Barclay's #Spectator editor Fraser Nelson, in the Telegraph: "After years banging on about the moral case for low taxation... the Tories have now given up. Handouts are preferred to general tax cuts, allowing the state to choose winners & losers."
Tax-avoiding foreign billionaire Rupert Murdoch's Sun warns of the "danger that a nation kept afloat by borrowing £400billion during Covid, & now bailed out again, starts to believe a Corbyn-style “magic money tree” really CAN cushion them from the harshness of reality."
Tax-avoiding non-dom billionaire Jonathan Harmsworth's Daily Mail: "Conservative backbenchers have voiced anger at the way he (Sunak) handed 'red meat to Socialists' & bowed to Labour by imposing a windfall tax on the surging profits of oil & gas firms to help fund the move."
Tax-avoiding multi-millionaire Jacob Rees-Mogg, quoted in Tax-avoiding non-dom billionaire Jonathan Harmsworth's Mail: "Whether it's a pasty tax, or it's an excess profits tax, there is an economic consequence, there isn't a honeypot of free tax that Govts can just pop into."

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May 28
#THREAD

There's much about #fascism that is largely hidden from us in Britain.

#Fascist ideas prospered politically only when perceived economic threats increased their appeal to members of certain social groups.

#CostOfLivingCrisis

britannica.com/topic/fascism/…
In 1928, before the onset of the Great Depression in Germany, Hitler received less than 3 percent of the vote; after 1930, however, far more voters—many of them middle and lower-middle class individuals fearful of “proletarianization”—gave him their support.
The economic anxiety underlying the success of Nazism was reflected to some extent in party membership, which was drawn disproportionately from economic elites and other high-status groups—especially for leadership positions.
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May 27
Another #THREAD about truth, the culture war, money, & our broken news media.

Following eerily similar stories in the Mail & the Express, Nick Robinson's apology is all over @Twitter, posted almost exclusively by culture war warriors - who hate the @BBC - as "proof" of #BBCbias.
The 'outrage' is fuelled by a false claim made by Nick Robinson - a former Chairman of the National Young Conservatives & President of the Oxford University Conservative Association - that a Ministry of Justice cleaner, Mr Gomes, had died 'of Covid' while working in Downing St.
It transpires that Mr Gomes had not been working at Downing St at the time of his death, but at the nearby MoJ. And while colleagues had raised concerns he'd been suffering Covid-like symptoms in the lead up to his death, a coroner's report recorded it as heart hypertension.
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May 27
#THREAD on school shootings.

The National Rifle Association is one of America’s most powerful lobbying groups, spending nearly $5million last year alone.

More than half of US citizens want stricter gun control laws, but just 27% of Republicans do.

theguardian.com/us-news/2022/m…
According to the Center for Homeland Defense & Security’s K-12 School Shooting Database, there were 222 US school shootings in 2021 - an all-time high.

That’s over 100 more school shootings in 2021 than in 2019 or 2018, respectively the second- & third-worst years on record.
School shootings are considered by many to be an epidemic in the USA, as is gun violence in general.

According to data from Everytown Research, the US averaged just over 87 school shootings each year from 2013 to 2021, resulting in an annual average of 28 dead & 60 wounded.
Read 19 tweets
May 26
The #WindfallTax was a tax on "the excess profits of the privatised utilities" introduced by the 'New @UKLabour' government of Tony Blair in 1997, following a manifesto commitment to impose a "windfall levy" on the privatised utilities.

Was it any good?
New Labour's #WindfallTax came after 18 years of Tory rule, which had seen #neoliberal privatisation of many state-owned assets, at prices which many considered too low.

It aimed to "put right the bad deal which customers & taxpayers got from the privatisation of the utilities".
The #WindfallTax produced a one-off income to the Govt of £5 billion, used to fund the New Deal, a questionable 'welfare-to-work' (workfare) program, & capital investment for schools & 'Learndirect', a training provider owned by the private equity firm Queens Park Equity.
Read 7 tweets
May 26
Let's have a quick #THREAD on troubled Johnson-brown-nosing robotic hard-right Tory MP Jonathan Gullis - a controversial member of the European Research Group, & a parliamentary backer of FREER, an initiative run by the opaquely funded neoliberal Institute of Economic Affairs.
He stood in Washington & Sunderland West at #GE2017, losing to the incumbent Labour MP Sharon Hodgson, but somehow was elected as the MP for Stoke-on-Trent North at #GE2019, unseating Labour's Ruth Smeeth & becoming the first Conservative to represent the constituency.
At the time of his election, Gullis was employed as a school teacher & head of year at an Academy in Sutton Coldfield, & somewhat bizarrely for a Tory MP, served as the school's trade union representative, but he's spent his time as an MP railing against the Left & the 'woke'.
Read 16 tweets
May 25
Pfeffel #THREAD:

1988: Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is sacked by the Times for #fabricating a quote.

1995: a recording emerges in which Pfeffel agrees to provide Darius Guppy with the address of a journalist who was investigating him so that he could have him beaten up. Image
2004: Pfeffel sacked by Michael Howard for #lying about an affair.

2012: Pfeffel apologises for #accusing Liverpudlians of wallowing in "victim status" in a 2004 article.

2016: Pfeffel fails to apologise equates the EU’s efforts to unify Europe with those undertaken by Hitler. Image
2017 Pfeffel #accused of worsening the plight of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe after wrongly claiming she was in the country teaching journalism.

2017: Pfeffel forced to apologise to Parliament for #failing to declare outside earnings totalling more than £50,000 on nine occasions. Image
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