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Aug 15

We are suffering from privatised energy, water, rail and bus services. Not only are they adding to the #CostofLivingCrisis but they've given us sub standard infrastructure that will buckle under the #ClimateCrisis. Yet there is NO discussion of the failure of privatisation.
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2/ Privatisation has gone further in the UK than any other rich developed country, including the US. We are paying the price for it everyday and that price will grow as the #ClimateCrisis worsens. Both mainstream politics and media simply refuse to even discuss it.

3/ Privatisation is no age old principle like freedom speech that should be beyond question. It's barely 40 years old. We should be discussing it and asking it if it has worked or not? If it we should renationalise?

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Jul 6

1/ The Tory leadership race - what’s likely?
Ignore current resignations. With the exception of Javid and Sunak, the big players in the Cabinet won’t act before the 1922 Committee. That could be a delegation going to Johnson or a successful rule change. Game on after that.
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2/ The Tory leadership will be come down to two types of candidate: Continuity Johnson, ie carry on as is, (Patel, Raab, Truss) just do what he was doing without illegal parties, free passes for sex cases and less lying.
or

3/ Total Reset, clean out Johnson loyalists, those most closely associated with him. Major on personal integrity, lead charge on cleaning house of bad old ways in Tory party and Parliament, ie kill what caused the Johnson debacle.

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Jul 5

Sajid Javid resigns from the Cabinet. Game on!
Come on Tories, get Johnson gone.

https://twitter.com/sajidjavid/status/1544366218789937152

2/ Paragraph 5 is the killer in Sajid Javid’s resignation letter

https://twitter.com/sajidjavid/status/1544366218789937152

https://twitter.com/rishisunak/status/1544368323625947137

3/ Sunak joins Javid in resigning. Two senior Tories quit in 5 minutes of each other.

https://twitter.com/rishisunak/status/1544368323625947137

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Jun 20

Thread - Labour MPs who will be supporting #RMT strikers and picket lines.
Labour MPs who don't support this and the other strike actions for fair pay should have their union sponsorships cancelled immediately.
(NB thread is no particular order)

1) Jon Trickett

https://twitter.com/jon_trickett/status/1538963726610604033?s=20&t=c0orYlDglAX1OAd_RZdDLw

2) Paula Barker

https://twitter.com/PaulaBarkerMP/status/1538961131502505986?s=20&t=c0orYlDglAX1OAd_RZdDLw

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May 26

It’s truly amazing and unique that the Tories have been more generous than Labour. Sunak’s package for the #CostOfLivingCrisis is bigger and wider than Labour’s proposal. For every Labour leader in my memory, Foot, Kinnock, Smith, Blair, Brown, Miliband and Corbyn
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2/ the opposite was true. Labour’s financial proposals have been fairer, wider and more generous than Tory proposals. For the first time under Starmer, Labour is behind the Tories on this. For the first time, Labour cannot legitimately say “you haven’t done enough,

3/ we would have done more and better.” Claiming credit for the idea of a windfall tax by Labour pales beneath the breadth of the Tory package. Starmer’s trying to out Tory the Tories strategy has been a failure from the beginning. The ‘real’ Tories despite all their

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May 18

In dealing with the highest level of inflation since 1982, many comments on unions being stronger to protect their members before the Tories took their rights away. There were other big differences (see Thread). Any analysis of the current crisis has to include all of these.

1/ Housing: most renters were in council homes (effectively rent control). Right to buy introduced by the Tories effectively destroyed council housing and boosted the private rental sector. There is no control on rents.
Source: fullfact.org/economy/social…

2/ Benefits were adjusted by the RPI measure of inflation not the current CPI one. CPI excludes housing cots and is therefore almost always lower. For instance in April '22, CPI was 9% but RPI was 11%. The Tories made the switch from RPI to CPI. Source: researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN06…

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