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Sep 25 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
So Starmer has ruled out including any support for Proportional Representation in @UKLabour’s election manifesto - despite the Tories being in power for more than two-thirds of the last century without EVER winning a majority share of the popular vote. 🧐

theguardian.com/politics/2022/…
Fun fact:

Just 29% of the UK electorate voted Tory in 2019, yet under FPTP, this was enough votes to secure an 80-seat majority.

Another fun fact:

Votes/seat #GE2019:

Tory 38K
Labour 50K
LibDems 336K
Greens 886K

Happiest countries, 2022:

1 Finland
2 Denmark
3 Switzerland
4 Iceland
5 Netherlands
6 Norway
7 Sweden
8 Luxembourg
9 NZ
10 Austria
11 Australia
12 Israel
13 Germany
14 Canada
15 Ireland
16 Costa Rica
17 UK
18 Czech Rep
19 US
20 Belgium

Just TWO use First Past The Post: UK & US.

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Sep 25
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The British Social Attitudes Survey is Britain's longest running annual statistical survey, conducted by the highly respected National Centre for Social Research since 1983.

New results show Britain has become MORE liberal, but more divided too.

bsa.natcen.ac.uk
The most pressing issue is of course the #CostOfLivingCrises that threatens a severe drop in living standards, especially for the less well off, compounded by the announcements in what has been dubbed the #KamiKwasi "mini-budget', set to dramatically increase inequality. ImageImage
Other issues facing Britain include our underfunded #NHS still recovering from the pandemic; the integrity of the Union is under threat; significant regional disparities in economic & social wellbeing; & deep political division over a Brexit - part of a polarising ‘culture war’.
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Imho, if @UKLabour, the @theSNP, @TheGreenParty & the @LibDems don't have a coordinated push on something similar in Britain, they are simply cowards, significantly contributing to the destruction of everything good & decent about Britain. 🇬🇧
We all know what the front pages would say had @UKLabour delivered a catastrophic mini-budget announcing more than £400 billion of extra borrowing & £45billion in tax-cuts, which sent the pound crashing to its lowest level against the dollar in 37 years.
Take this big fat 2017 LIE on the front page of the Mail, claiming the @UKLabour manifesto would "cost EVERY family £4,000". Four months later, on page two, they said: “We are happy to clarify that, as the article stated, the £4,000 was an average figure.”
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The cranks at US libertarian billionaire-funded #Spiked have sent an email asking for money to help fund their divisive propaganda: "It’s a difficult time out there financially for many people... Over the next few weeks, we’re doing a donation drive!"
#CostOfGreedCrisis
#Spiked are divisive & dangerous, ideologically extreme, #propagandists.

A joint investigation between @DeSmog & The @guardian revealed that #Spiked US Inc. received funding from the Charles Koch Foundation between 2016 & 2018 to the tune of $300,000.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
#Spiked is just one of the myriad #propaganda wings of the dangerous free-market growth ideology having profoundly harmful impacts on individuals, communities, societies, countries & democracies across the world, as well leading to environmental degradation & the #ClimateCrisis.
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Sep 23
Hedge-funders & disaster capitalists will crack open the champagne & make a killing from our reckless ideologically extremist Govt, as the pound plummets & investors take fright at the prospect of a surge in govt borrowing to pay for tax cuts for the rich.
theguardian.com/business/2022/…
#KamiKwasi Kwarteng's insane tax giveaway, the biggest since 1972 , “risks a confidence crisis in sterling”, & the market reaction demonstrates “a broader loss of investor confidence in the government’s approach”, reflecting the damage to Britain’s standing in global markets. 🇬🇧
“[It’s] really hard to overstate the degree to which the Kwarteng budget has just wrecked the gilt market.”

Illustrating the scale of the turmoil, five-year gilt yields had moved by the most in a single day since 1993, surpassing the Covid pandemic, the 2008 crash, & 9/11.
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Sep 22
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120,000 claimants won't be being "ASKED" to take more work, they will be be "FORCED" to.

And if for whatever good reason they decline to take extra work in low paid insecure shit jobs, miles from home & family, they will likely end up ill, homeless, in prison, or dead.
Welfare reforms have contributed to mental health decline in the UK over the last two decades.

Between 2013 & 2018, an additional 60,000+ unemployed people experienced levels of psychological distress that are clinically significant due to the introduction of Universal Credit.
The introduction of Universal Credit led to a significant increase in psychological distress. These cruel & brutal & unethical new changes to government welfare are evaluated purely on a fiscal basis, ignoring the negative effects on health & wellbeing.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
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