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Jun 14 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Both Hitler & Mussolini hated lawyers and often abused them. They saw the rule of law as a barrier to their exercise of absolute power, in the name of "the will of the people".
#ToryFascists
... e.g. Hitler: : "I shall not rest until every German sees that it is a shameful thing to be a lawyer."
#ToryFascists
Mussolini made himself dictator to put himself beyond the law when his crimes came under investigation. Fascists will make laws to give a legal veneer to oppression, but an independent judiciary is completely antithetical to fascism.
#ToryFascists
washingtonpost.com/news/democracy…
... which is not to say that there were not plenty of lawyers who played along with fascism in both Nazi Germany & fascist Italy.

And then there's Suella Braverman

#ToryFascists

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May 26
Key point that's being missed about Rishi Sunak's Energy Profits Levy (#WindfallTax) on oil & gas profits: companies will be able offset investment in new fossil fuel extraction against their taxable profit. That's exactly what they'll do.

This tax is highly damaging to climate.
That's why Rishi Sunak didn't simply raise the existing Supplementary Charge on N. Sea oil & gas. That also allows investment offsets but not as big & only after profits from investment are booked.

The fossil fuel interests that fund the Tory Party will be delighted.
... in fact, it's unlikely the #windfalltax will raise anything like as much as is being claimed. Nor will encourage investment in renewables.

With oil & gas profits soaring, fossil fuel corps will minimise their tax liability by ploughing profits back into new oil & gas...
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Mar 1
If you were thinking of a stay at the Camelot Castle Hotel in Tintagel, you may like to know that its proprietor, John Mappin, is a big fan of Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

There are other reasons you might want to give it a miss, as I described here:
westcountryvoices.co.uk/qanon-in-cornw… Image
John Mappin may seem like a deranged fantasist, but he has some interesting connections.

He is, for example, chair & director of this exceeding fishy outfit, fronted up by his fellow Putin fan Nigel Farage, which I wrote about for @WCountryVoices.
westcountryvoices.co.uk/nigel-farage-a…
John Mappin also hosted the UK launch of Turning Point, a far-right youth organisation that has been endorsed by both Jacob Rees-Mogg and Priti Patel.
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Jan 5
The right to protest is crucial to democracy.
Priti Patel’s #PoliceBill aims to remove this right.

It would allow the government to stop any protest & create a police state.

Find out how you can help @TheGreenParty's #ProtestIsNotACrime campaign here:

drive.google.com/file/d/1qav_CQ…
The #PoliceBill is now even more dangerous after "amendments" were added without proper scrutiny or debate.

These would make it even easier for peaceful protesters to be prosecuted & jailed for up to 51 weeks.

Will @UKLabour vote against them in the Lords?

#ProtestIsNotACrime
"Locking on" was a key part of the Suffragettes long campaign for votes for women.

Priti Patel's #PoliceBill aims to make this a crime punishable by up to 51 weeks in prison.

Find out how you can help save the right to protest:
drive.google.com/file/d/1qav_CQ…

#ProtestIsNotACrime
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Jan 4
And this was *before* Daniel Kawczynski got his hands on £22,000 of public money for "Polish language lessons".
Learn Polish the Daniel Kawczynski way. Lesson 1:

"Opłaty za szkołę są bardzo drogie. Zrobię wszystko dla pieniędzy."

(School fees are very expensive. I will do anything for money.)
Learn Polish the Daniel Kawczynski way. Lesson 2:

"Mój przyjaciel pochodzi z Arabii Saudyjskiej. Lubi posłów i jest bardzo hojny."

(My friend is from Saudi Arabia. He likes members of parliament and he is very generous.)
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Aug 9, 2021
It's going to be PM Rishi Sunak, isn't it? Looks like probably sooner rather than later.

Sunak is smart & personable, but his "free-market", "fiscally conservative" ideology is absolutely lethal - & especially disastrous in the context of Covid & the #ClimateEmergency.
I suspect Boris Johnson does not actually want to remain PM for much longer. He's essentially lazy & would rather be raking in easy money from speeches & articles. A determined push from Sunak & his backers would probably oust him quite easily.

Sunak has a lean & hungry look.
Rishi Sunak also has a big advantage within the Tory Party thanks to his intimate connections with hedge-funds - the biggest source of donations to the party.

They will no doubt be especially keen on his "relaxed" attitude to tax avoidance.
theguardian.com/politics/2020/…
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Aug 3, 2021
Boris Johnson met with Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya today.

Johnson & the corrupt dictator Lukashenko have some common traits.

They took the same nonachalant approach to visiting Covid wards.

Johnson's party has taken funds from sources close to Putin...
... Johnson's government is planning to restrict people's right to peaceful protest. And the UK & Belarus are the only two countries in Europe that still have a first-past-the-post electoral system.
The UK is still a long way from being a murderous dicatorship like Belarus. But anyone who puts their trust in Boris Johnson's corrupt government to defend democracy and the rule of law in the UK has not being paying attention.
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