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@KwasiKwarteng "Now that Tory donors have hoovered up a fortune betting against the pound, the Party has a guaranteed massive war chest, so we can spend a fortune on propaganda convincing gullible voters that we give a shit about them, suckers!"
#SameOldTories
#EnoughIsEnough
#CostOfGreedCrisis
@KwasiKwarteng Multimillionaire Tory donor Alasdair Locke, who has extensive North Sea interests & chairs Motor Fuel Group, which owns 900+ petrol stations across the UK, says he does not approve of the decision to scrap the abolition of the 45% top rate of tax.

theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
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Oct 4
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Boris Johnson & many high profile British Jews - including Melanie Phillips - have condemned the grotesque views of dangerous "ultra-right-wing" extremist Tzipi Hotovely.

Can't begin think why ultra-right-wing anti-woke crank Kemi Badenoch looks so happy to see her...🧐
Tzipi Hotovely is an Israeli diplomat and former politician who serves as the current Ambassador of Israel to the UK. She served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Diaspora Affairs, Minister of Settlement Affairs, & as a member of the Knesset for the Likud party.
In 2011, she invited representatives from a group whose primary objective is to oppose assimilation of Jews & which objects to any personal or business relationships between Jews & non-Jews, to a discussion of tactics used to prevent romantic relationships between Jews & Arabs.
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Oct 4
#THREAD

"There comes a point where making the poor poorer becomes a false economy — and I think we have reached it. Better than cutting benefits would be to get tough on the causes of welfare spending."
- Sarah O'Connor, FT

ft.com/content/3fb982…
'The UK's benefits spend for non-pensioners was about 4.6% of GDP in 2019/20, up from about 3% in the 1970s, when housing was affordable & jobs were well paid & permanent. But spending has already been cut from about 5.7% during the decade of austerity following the 2008 crash.' Image
'Families who become homeless have to be put up in expensive B&Bs. People who become mentally or physically unwell add to the healthcare bill & drop out of the workforce. More than 640,000 working-age people have already left the labour market since the start of the pandemic.' Image
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Oct 4
.@Conservatives love to claim the moral high ground & lecture voters about 'family values'. But while everyone knows Boris Johnson cheated on his wife, lesser known is that both Liz Truss & Andrea Jenkyns also had affairs with married men, both of whom were fellow Tory MPs. 😬🇬🇧 ImageImageImage
And while we're all familiar with multimillionaire faux Christian Jacob Rees-Mogg's dangerously antiquated views on abortion, & his disregard for Jesus's eye of a needle claim, compared to some of Steve Baker's views, even JRM comes across as a moderate.

Right-wing extremism under the guise of Christianity is growing in the UK, so get yourself up too speed on who they are & how to deal with their dangerous fundamentalism.

Here's a #THREAD about Tufton St's 'New Culture Forum' - an platform for extremism.
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Oct 3
The UK now has a record number of billionaires with 177, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.

The combined wealth of the UK's billionaires stands at £653 BILLION, up more than £55bn (9.4%) on the total wealth of the billionaires in last year's Rich List.

#CostOfGreedCrisis ImageImage
Out of 275 parties in 61 countries, the unhinged UK
@Conservatives are now THE most economically right-wing major party in the western world.

They are completely unmoored from the British public on economics, & way out of step even with their own voters.

ft.com/content/d5f1d5…
The "general recipe for creating highly satisfied citizens: ensure that state institutions are of high quality, non-corrupt, able to deliver what they promise, & generous in taking care of citizens in various adversities".

The opposite of Britain then.🇬🇧

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Oct 2
Well did you hear? There's a natural order

Those most deserving will end up with the most

That the cream cannot help but always rise up to the top

Well I say, "Shit floats".

'Running the World', by Jarvis Cocker.
If you thought things had changed

Friend, you'd better think again

Bluntly put, in the fewest of words

Cunts are still running the world

Cunts are still running the world

Oh yeah!
Now the working classes are obsolete

They are surplus to society's needs

So let 'em all kill each other

& get it made overseas

That's the word, don't you know

From the guys that's running the show

Let's be perfectly clear boys & girls

Oh cunts are still running the world
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Oct 2
#THREAD

In November 2021, the MET Police were asked to investigate the #CashForHonours scandal after it was revealed 15 of the last 16 @Conservatives' treasurers had been offered a seat in the House of Lords having EACH donated more than £3 MILLION to the Tories!
#EnoughIsEnough
In 2007, Dominic Johnson co-founded Somerset Capital Management (SCM) with Jacob Rees-Mogg and Edward Robertson.

All three were colleagues at Lloyd George Management in Hong Kong. Rees-Mogg was CEO of SCM until Johnson succeeded him in 2010.
In September 2022, SCM with assets under management of about $5 billion was up for sale, with Johnson planning to move into politics.

From 2006 to 2010, Johnson was a Conservative councillor for the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea.

bylinetimes.com/2022/06/09/who…
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