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Jul 17 • 7 tweets • 6 min read
They Live among us.
#ToryLeadershipContest
#ITVLeadershipDebate
Good luck @julie_etch!

Like many voters, I'd really like to hear the #ToryLeadershipContest candidates be confronted about their funding from climate-change deniers.

@PaulBrandITV @tombradby @Peston @AnushkaAsthana @carldinnen @ShehabKhan @romillyweeks

Please also ask them what they mean by 'woke' without fobbing us off with the usual guff about 'free speech' (which everyone believes in) Critical Race Theory (which they have no clue about), & the antisemitic conspiracy theory of 'cultural Marxism'. 🙏

The main concern of the vast majority of people is not 'wokeness' or migration, but the 40 years of deregulated free-market capitalism which delivered the 2008 crash, massive inequality, climate change, failing public services & the #CostOfLivingCrisis.

Come on @julie_etch, please seize the opportunity to do Britain & democracy a massive favour by exposing who the #ToryLeadershipContest candidates *really* represent! 👊

#ITVLeadersDebate

Tee hee.
“The neoliberal economic revolution increased ‘economic growth’, but also resulted in low-paid, insecure work, grotesque inequalities, rising poverty, failing public services, polarisation, the near collapse of democratic institutions, & climate change.”

russjackson.medium.com/a-glossary-of-…

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Jul 18
"A great deal of research has revealed a link between corporal punishment (especially spanking children) and negative life outcomes, but the underlying mechanisms that explain how and why these associations exist are not well understood."

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
"The current study extends this line of research by analysing a longitudinal sample of high-risk male and female youth drawn from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being."
"Analyses reveal the use of corporal punishment was differentially used depending on certain parental behavioural characteristics. Even after accounting for such attributes, models generally demonstrate that corporal punishment was associated with later criminal involvement."
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Jul 18
#THREAD

The Culture War on Woke: how it works, #672.

"FREE SPEECH STIFLED AT UNIVERSITIES AS UNIVERSITIES CANCEL RECORD NUMBER OF SPEAKERS!" screams the Telegraph.

"NEARLY 200 REQUESTS FOR EVENTS REJECTED IN A YEAR!!"

Really? 🤔

wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/gr… Image
Inevitably, GB "News", the Mail & Times joined in & Andrea Jenkyns screamed "This is exactly why our new Freedom of Speech Bill will ensure universities not only protect free speech but promote it & ensure we are protecting the rights of students & academics across the country!" ImageImageImage
Frankly, I can't be bothered to do yet another detailed thread exposing the bullshit lies & misleading half-truths the foreign/non-dom billionaire-owned press puke out daily in their pathetic 'war on woke' (like the one below) so I'll cut to the chase.

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Jul 18
#THREAD

Remember the far-right youth group, Turning Point UK, supported by Jacob Rees-Mogg, Priti Patel & Steve Baker & modelled on the #neofascist TPUSA, which tried to infiltrate Universities & poison young people's minds?

They're back, & now called 'Orthodox Conservatives'. ImageImage
Much of TPUSA's money comes from mining & oil interests, as well as libertarian/far-right thinktanks - its mission is to "identify, educate, train, & organize students to promote the principles of freedom, free markets, & limited government."

TPUSA makes headlines for supposed racist, sexist, & misleading statements, & for having very little transparency in its day-to-day running.

Candae Owens was TPUSA’s director of communications - her & founder Charlie Kirk lie & promote unhinged conspiracy theories.
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Jul 18
#THREAD

Tory MP, ERG member, anti-climate action agitator & Chair the ‘Common Sense Group’ of Tory MPs, John Hayes, has branded British people taking precautions against the heatwave ‘cowards’ & ‘snowflakes’.

THE "COMMON SENSE" GROUP! 🤣👍

But why?

metro.co.uk/2022/07/17/tor…
John Hayes was one of the 30 Tory MPs who could have been barred from second job consultancy roles in a "sleaze clampdown" following the Owen Patterson Scandal: as a "Strategic Adviser" to international energy company BB Energy Trading, he earned £50,000pa for 80-90 hours "work".
Hayes has repeatedly called for delay to UK climate action on behalf of the anti-climate action Tufton Street Think Tank, Global Warming Policy Forum, which aims to challenge what it describes as the “extremely damaging & harmful policies” designed to mitigate climate change.
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Jul 18
So it's not OK for Boris Johnson to lie, but it's fine when Patel's Home Office does?

Despite UNHCR making its position on the Govt’s #Rwanda Plan clear during a court hearing, the Home Office is continuing to misleadingly claim UNHCR is supportive of it.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/j…
A high court hearing in June was told that the Home Office misled refugees about UN involvement in Rwanda plans.

But despite UNHCR making its position on the government’s Rwanda scheme clear, the Home Office is continuing to state UNHCR is supportive of the controversial scheme.
A critical report about flaws in the #Rwanda Plan to was published last week. The report is by the charity @asylos_, which produces expert reports about the safety of countries to which the Home Office plans to return asylum seekers to.

asylos.eu/Handlers/Downl…
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Jul 17
I see 'woke' is trending again, so here's 'A Glossary of Right-Wing Terms and Phrases' - including 'woke' - that I prepared earlier...

Enjoy!

link.medium.com/LMfODfYUJrb
A few examples:

Anti-racism: “woke”

Art: “woke”

BBC: “woke”

Capitalism: “woke”

Channel 4: “woke”

Charities: “woke”

Comedy: “woke”

Compassion: “woke”

Continental philosophy: “woke”

Drama: “woke”

Education: “woke”

Equality: “woke”

Empathy: “woke”
Some more:

England football team: “woke”

Environmentalism: “woke”

Feminism: “woke”

Green party: “woke”

Human Resources: “woke”

Human rights: “woke”

Ikea: “woke”

Labour party: “woke”

Military industrial complex: “woke”

Museums: “woke”

National Trust: “woke”

NHS: “woke”
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