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Aug 26 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
More billionaires means more inequality, more funding for the Tories & Tufton St think tanks, more low pay, insecure work & strikes, more sewage in our water, more division, more corruption, more lobbyists, more greed, more broken public services, & more free-market #propaganda.

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Aug 27
#THREAD Wealth inequality & Party funding.

Britain's richest 250 people are worth £711 billion - up 8% on last year. The gap between the richest & the rest is at its widest in more than a decade: 2022 sees the highest level of income inequality since 2010 (ONS).

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The wealthiest 10% of households now hold 43% of all the wealth in Britain; the bottom 50% hold just 9%.

A third of Britain's 177 billionaires, with a combined wealth of £653 billion, have "given" at least £62 million to the Tory Party over the past two decades.

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Since #GE2019, UK political parties have received around £86 million from individuals, companies, unions & other groups - Tories received 63% of all individual donations.

“The Conservative party is now wholly unrepresentative in any way of the UK population.” - Frances Coppola. Image
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Aug 26
If not now, when?
#EnoughIsEnough
Thanks to @failedanarchist for posting the cartoon. 🙏
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Aug 26
#THREAD

Our increasingly antidemocratic & authoritarian Government has quietly published details of an "election power grab" to neuter & undermine the independence of the @ElectoralCommUK, the UK's elections watchdog which oversees free & fair elections.

mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
The Electoral Commission exists to ensure free & fair elections. But if the Electoral Commission follows the Government's orders, then we will no longer have an independent elections’ watchdog in the UK. This couldn’t come at a more dangerous time for Britain's fragile democracy.
The Electoral Commission exists to ensure that no one breaks the rules around elections & to protect the people’s interest in our electoral system. Not any more.

Just two years ago, the Co-Chair of the Conservative Party called for the Commission to be abolished altogether.
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Aug 25
Interview with Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, Ruth Wodak: 'The Politics of Fear - What Right-Wing Populist Discourse Means.'

Nativist nationalism, border politics, exclusionary ideologies, anti-intellectualism & historical revisionism.

populismobserver.com/2015/10/08/int…
Right-wing populists exploit insecurities & legitimate anxieties by a politics of fear, using simplistic dichotomist explanations & creating scapegoats to be blamed for all current woes (Muslims, Jews, migrants, refugees). Not a new strategy, but unfortunately very effective.
In this interview, Ruth Wodak discusses her early career & what propelled her into critical discourse analysis. She analyses what makes CDA “critical”, distinguishes criticalness from dogmatism, & expounds upon the relationship between critique & norms.

cevios.com/what-is-critic…
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Aug 25
#THREAD

In 1978's "Policing the Crisis", Stuart Hall & his colleagues argued that a moral panic over black urban criminality created a diversion away from the wider economic crisis & ushered in more authoritarian government.

They're trying it again, now.

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Stuart Hall & co exposed the ways in which changes of operational procedure on the part of the police were at least partly responsible for this phenomenon, as concern that mugging needed to be cracked down on led to more arrests & more offences being classified as muggings. Image
The media coverage of the resultant court cases led in turn to much media comment on this apparently new phenomenon, fuelling public concern which resulted in the handing down of greatly increased sentences to convicted 'muggers' in the name of deterrence. Image
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Aug 24
#THREAD

I'm no fan of Emily Maitlis - given the interruptive style & often mocking tone she adopted almost exclusively for left-wing politicians during the Corbyn era. However, she makes some valid points about the (lack of) "impartiality" of @BBCNews.

theguardian.com/media/2022/aug…
On the very day the @BBC apologised for "not meeting the standards of due impartiality", here's a clip of Emily Maitlis at her impartial best telling Dominic Grieve "You're going to fail the country on this one probably & put Jeremy Corbyn in power!"

Just last year, Maitlis said to John McDonnell: "Don't you find it extraordinary that STILL, all these YEARS later, Jeremy Corbyn can write a Facebook page saying he recognises antisemitism, but he doesn't say 'sorry'. Isn't that driving you mad that your friend can't do that?" Image
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