Thread (1/19)
When Truss became PM, I made a rare prediction:
When Truss became PM, I made a rare prediction:
https://twitter.com/MrMarkEThomas/status/1971168455071522816?s=20&t=yet1Bp5AKUCxXbRpxS7Kpg
(2/19)
Now, we are faced with the question of who Truss’s successor will be: Sunak, Johnson or Mordaunt?
This thread explores why none of those is an acceptable PM for the UK.
Now, we are faced with the question of who Truss’s successor will be: Sunak, Johnson or Mordaunt?
This thread explores why none of those is an acceptable PM for the UK.
(3/19)
When Johnson first put together his cabinet in 2019, I said, “Just as Extinction Rebellion has pointed out that we are looking at a climate emergency, I believe that we are looking at a constitutional emergency.”
99-percent.org/understanding-…
When Johnson first put together his cabinet in 2019, I said, “Just as Extinction Rebellion has pointed out that we are looking at a climate emergency, I believe that we are looking at a constitutional emergency.”
99-percent.org/understanding-…
(4/19)
It was not just that Johnson was unfit to be PM, but that his cabinet were market fundamentalists who want “The new Sovereign Individual to operate in the same environment as the ordinary, subject citizen, but in a separate realm politically.”
99-percent.org/what-is-the-ma…
It was not just that Johnson was unfit to be PM, but that his cabinet were market fundamentalists who want “The new Sovereign Individual to operate in the same environment as the ordinary, subject citizen, but in a separate realm politically.”
99-percent.org/what-is-the-ma…
(5/19)
And it is precisely this increasingly obvious “one law for us; another for them” attitude which – rather than the crippling of our economy or the 175,000 deaths – was Johnson’s downfall.
99-percent.org/what-is-happen…
And it is precisely this increasingly obvious “one law for us; another for them” attitude which – rather than the crippling of our economy or the 175,000 deaths – was Johnson’s downfall.
99-percent.org/what-is-happen…
(6/19)
When Truss was selected to replace Johnson, there was an uncomfortable lack of choice: every candidate was a Tufton Street candidate.
And that is of course true again now.
99-percent.org/an-unwelcome-c…
When Truss was selected to replace Johnson, there was an uncomfortable lack of choice: every candidate was a Tufton Street candidate.
And that is of course true again now.
99-percent.org/an-unwelcome-c…
(7/19)
Sunak seems to be the favourite, but his dedication to market fundamentalist ideas is no less than Truss’s.
In fact, all of the candidates will continue the construction of a #PlunderState…
99-percent.org/malice-in-plun…
Sunak seems to be the favourite, but his dedication to market fundamentalist ideas is no less than Truss’s.
In fact, all of the candidates will continue the construction of a #PlunderState…
99-percent.org/malice-in-plun…
(8/19)
…where “the government would increasingly act as a mechanism for redistributing wealth from the ordinary subject citizen to the sovereign individuals.”
99-percent.org/plunderland-re…
…where “the government would increasingly act as a mechanism for redistributing wealth from the ordinary subject citizen to the sovereign individuals.”
99-percent.org/plunderland-re…
(9/19)
The successor will be less clumsy than Truss, whose destruction of the UK was so rapid that it could not be hidden.
99-percent.org/the-creative-d…
The successor will be less clumsy than Truss, whose destruction of the UK was so rapid that it could not be hidden.
99-percent.org/the-creative-d…
(10/19)
We shall return to a more gradual impoverishment of the British people.
Which can be more easily denied or blamed on external forces
99-percent.org/when-the-99-be…
We shall return to a more gradual impoverishment of the British people.
Which can be more easily denied or blamed on external forces
99-percent.org/when-the-99-be…
(11/19)
And her successor will continue with the deconstruction of UK democracy …
99-percent.org/saving-democra…
And her successor will continue with the deconstruction of UK democracy …
99-percent.org/saving-democra…
(12/19)
… to the point where we no longer even have the right to peaceful protest…
99-percent.org/what-kind-of-c…
… to the point where we no longer even have the right to peaceful protest…
99-percent.org/what-kind-of-c…
(14/19)
The Truss crisis will be used to justify permanent austerity which would benefit the top 0.01% of UK society to the detriment of the rest of us.
99-percent.org/austerity-why-…
The Truss crisis will be used to justify permanent austerity which would benefit the top 0.01% of UK society to the detriment of the rest of us.
99-percent.org/austerity-why-…
(15/19)
And Truss’s successor will continue the assault on the NHS…
And Truss’s successor will continue the assault on the NHS…
https://twitter.com/MrMarkEThomas/status/1465711494755078145?s=20
(16/19)
…and the rest of our social contract, which is all anathema to market fundamentalists.
99-percent.org/five-actions-t…
…and the rest of our social contract, which is all anathema to market fundamentalists.
99-percent.org/five-actions-t…
(17/19)
This future is, of course, not acceptable to most of the UK population.
So please sign the petition for a General Election now.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6197…
This future is, of course, not acceptable to most of the UK population.
So please sign the petition for a General Election now.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6197…
(18/19)
And write to your MP demanding that he/she supports calls for an immediate election.
This approach got rid of Truss; it can get rid of them all.
99-percent.org/how-to-stop-th…
And write to your MP demanding that he/she supports calls for an immediate election.
This approach got rid of Truss; it can get rid of them all.
99-percent.org/how-to-stop-th…
(19/19)
And if you want to stop the UK becoming a once-developed nation with a failing economy and third-world social contract, please join the 99% Organisation and help drive the change we will still need, post-Tory.
99-percent.org
And if you want to stop the UK becoming a once-developed nation with a failing economy and third-world social contract, please join the 99% Organisation and help drive the change we will still need, post-Tory.
99-percent.org
For some reason the link above does not seem to work!
https://twitter.com/MrMarkEThomas/status/1571168455071522816?s=20&t=yet1Bp5AKUCxXbRpxS7Kpg
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