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Sep 2 • 7 tweets • 6 min read
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The Govt, US billionaire-funded lobbyists & the billionaire-owned UK press & media LIE to voters every day, falsely claiming British workers are lazy & greedy, & our Universities, legal system, media & public services are all overrun with 'Britain-hating woke Leftists'.
They tell us the Big Lies that the #CostOfLivingCrises is nothing to do with deregulation or the greed of Big Corporations & their shareholders, & that delaying action on tackling the #ClimateCrisis is necessary to save the British people & the economy, when the opposite is true.
They give their friends, funders & other ideological extremists all the juiciest Govt jobs & contracts, & appoint them to head our so-called "independent" regulators, cultural institutions & Commissions, & collude with overseas & non-dom billionaires to demonise any resistance.
This is simply what autocrats do: they lie constantly; break rules; remove the independence of institutions designed to protect democracy; divide voters & distract from multiple crisis with anti-Left culture war rhetoric which scapegoats & demonises minorities & any resistance.
As Britain prepares for an EVEN WORSE PM, & as the #CostOfLivingCrisis pushes millions into bankruptcy & the #ClimateCrisis intensifies, the @Conservatives have NOTHING to offer but MORE OF THE SAME failed policies which brought us to this very dark place.
#EnoughIsEnough
#EnoughIsEnough

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'What is Populism? Who is the Populist?'

Authors: Jean-Paul Gagnon, Emily Beausoleil, Kyong-Min Son, Cleve Arguelles, Pierrick Chalaye & Callum N. Johnston, in Democratic Theory (2018, Vol. 5, Issue 2).

In short, it's complicated!

berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/…
Both "populism" & "populist" have long been considered ill-defined terms, and therefore are regularly misapplied in both scholarly and popular discourses.

This definitional difficulty is exacerbated by the confusion of myriad voices discussing populism.
The meaning of 'populism' differs within & between global regions (eg Latin America vs Western Europe); time periods (eg 1930s versus the present); & classifications (eg left/right, pluralist/anti-pluralist, authoritarian/libertarian (summarised later).
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Sep 2
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Liz Truss has appointed several more ideological extremists to the so-called "independent" Social Mobility Commission, headed Katharine Birbalsingh.

Like the whitewashed Race Commission report, we already know it will downplay the roles of poverty, inequality, & racism.
Liz Truss's new appointments to the Social Mobility Commission include left-hating:

Propagandist Matt Goodwin: on the advisory panel of Toby Young's divisive culture war "Free Speech Union"

Ryan Henson: Former Tory parliamentary candidate whose self-ID ‘Conservative campaigner’ ImageImage
Raghib Ali, who in the whitewashed Race Commission report downplayed the fact that ethnic minorities have worse health outcomes compared with White people

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"Climate change should be taught from both sides!" - Katherine Birbalsingh Head, Social Mobility Tsar.

The UK Govt appoints people based not on their independence or expertise, but on how closely their views align with US billionaire-funded anti-Net Zero think tanks (lobbyists).
It's happening in plain sight.
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It's an almost daily occurrence now - they're not even bothering to try & hide it....
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Aug 31
Another #THREAD about the sinister & shadowy network of opaquely funded right-wing free-market think tanks (lobbying groups), funded by US Libertarian billionaires, that have infiltrated & threaten our democracy.

This one concerns Policy Exchange's current attack on our Police.
The Policy Exchange report says the Home Office should use its powers to reform "failing" police forces, replacing chief constables if necessary, as some common offences are "in essence almost entirely decriminalised" because policing has "lost its way".

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-627323…
Using divisive culture war rhetoric imported from the US far-right, the report states that the public feels police officers are "more interested in being woke than solving crimes". While this may be true for a radicalised minority of the public, it is a dangerous & absurd claim.
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Aug 30
When 'economic logic' was more powerful than geopolitical rivalry, nations sought cheapness & efficiency, prioritising 'free-trade'.

But now that international rivalries are growing, questions around safety, stability & ethicality are making a comeback - which the Tories hate.
Did globalisation mean that western democracies naively sponsored the rise of hostile rivals such as Russia or China? Left-wing critics correctly associate the “neoliberal” era of globalisation with widening inequality & environmental degradation.
'There is truth in both of these critiques. But the pressure to cut trade and investment ties is not simply a product of rising nationalism & economic stress — it can also contributes to both processes.' - Gideon Rachman in the FT.

ft.com/content/b03290…
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Divisive hard-right crank Calvin Robinson (sporting his new dog collar!😬) chats with Steve Baker at the relaunch of Baker's ERG-supported anti-Net Zero 'Conservative Way Forward' event in July. Others attending included Suella Braverman & Tobias Ellwood.

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