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.
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".
So how did we get here - and who is dictating the cruel, insane, & dangerously irresponsible economic & social policies of the current UK Government, which are destroying our essential public services along with everything fair & decent about Britain?
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.
"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
'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.'
'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.'
.@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. 😬🇬🇧
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.
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
"Calling Liz Truss thick is sexist". Is it fuck, you pathetic identity politics snowflake. What SHOULD critics call her then?
A dangerously irresponsible extremist? A cold-hearted fundamentalist? A profoundly damaged ideological puppet? A cruel sociopathic free-market fanatic?