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Rishi Sunak & his supporters claim he has a 'mandate' to be PM because he's 'promised to deliver the original 2019 @Conservatives' manifesto'. This is obviously a profoundly misleading & antidemocratic lie: he has absolutely no intention of delivering the 2019 manifesto.
"Hospitals" are mentioned 19 times in their 2019 manifesto: it explicitly promises "40 new hospitals" THREE times, "ON TOP OF the 20 hospital upgrades".

This was always lie, & they certainly WILL NOT deliver "40 new hospitals" - Thus, they will NOT "deliver" the 2019 manifesto.
And now Sunak looks likely to abandon the “triple lock” protection for the state pension.

To legitimate ignoring two of their most important promises to the British people - while simultaneously claiming he has a 'mandate' to be PM - they simply say 'circumstances have changed'.
Circumstances CONTINUALLY change! They want to have their cake & eat it: promise the earth to gullible voters, then once elected, disregard the promises they had no intention of keeping & replace the PM TWICE - with both PMs having ZERO intention of delivering the 2019 manifesto.
At his first #PMQs Sunak said 'There are over 15,000 new police officers on our streets', yet since 2010, the number of officers fell by about 20,000, & in the year to March 2022, more than 8,000 police officers left forces in England & Wales, a 35% increase on the previous year.
Responding to the point that a nurse would have to work for *20,000 YEARS* to gain as much wealth as Sunak, he claimed that 'as chancellor, we introduced actually very strong pay increases [for nurses]'.

In the real world, the paltry increase was actually a real terms pay CUT.
Sadly, it's blindingly obvious that Rishi Sunak is just another liar, willing to lie in Parliament, lie to the British people, & lie to himself.

His promise to bring ‘integrity’ to No 10 is simply absurd - especially given that he reappointed Braverman.

Britain may already be an #Oligarchy: #Shell paid ZERO windfall tax in the UK, despite making record global profits of nearly £26BILLION (so far) this year after exploiting a tax break brought in by our latest unelected PM, ex-hedge-funder Rishi Sunak.

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Feb 28
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Jacob Rees-Mogg's dad's 1997 book was originally called The Sovereign Individual: *How to Survive & Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State*😱

It predicted “cybercurrency,” the decline of nation-states & the ascendance of a “cognitive elite” who would rule the world.
My own summary is above, but journalist @gilduran76 - of the brilliant #FrameLab - has now written his own summary, review and interpretation of it, which I reproduce with a few links and commentary, below.

Access his original (25 February) article here:

thenerdreich.com/the-sovereign-…
To fully understand Silicon Valley’s project to destroy democracy, read 'The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State.'

In 1999, it was rebranded as 'The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age.' Image
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Feb 17
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Life was demonstrably worse in the 1979 than it is today.

Zymunt Bauman calls this yearning for an imagined past, ‘retrotopia’, in which the ‘Volk’ (the ‘simple folk’, who Reform UK claim to represent) are constructed as homogenous, Christian, white, & ‘indigenous’. Image
Life was demonstrably inferior in the 1970s compared to today for almost everyone in England.

Life expectancy in the UK in 1980 was 71 for men and 77 for women. By 2019, life expectancy at birth in England had increased to 79 years for men & 83.5 for women.
1. Economic Hardship

In 1979, the UK economy was struggling with high inflation, unemployment, and a budget deficit. This eroded purchasing power, making essentials like food, clothing, and housing more expensive relative to wages. "Stagflation" was a significant problem. Image
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Feb 11
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'Anti-elite man of the people' Nigel Farage, educated at one of the most expensive private schools on earth, is now the highest paid MP in the UK. His basic annual MP salary is £91,346 plus expenses.

The UK National Living Wage for people aged 21+ is just £12.21/hour. Image
Let's take a look at some of Nigel Farage's additional earnings that he's legally obliged to declare in the MPs Register of interests - and which contains a few surprises - starting with GB "News".

Full details publicly accessible here:

members.parliament.uk/member/5091/re…New York, USA. 15th Dec, 2024. NIGEL FARAGE chats with far-right shit-stirrer and former editor-in-chief of Breitbart News London, RAHEEM KASSAM (who describes London as a "shithole" as The New York Young Republican Club held their annual Gala event at Cipriani's on Wall Street. (Credit Image: © Laura Brett/ZUMA Press)
Between 16th July 2024 and 15th January 2025, Farage decalred earnings of £264,790 for his work as a presenter on Reform UK Ltd's 24/7 propaganda channel, GB "News", co-owned by Islamophobic billionaire hedge-funder, Paul Marshall.

Hourly rate: £2,243/hr

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Jan 30
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Late on 22nd January, The @Telegraph claimed on its front page that “One in 12 in London is an illegal migrant.”

Millions of people were shocked and outraged.

This 🧵 is about our broken news media, the subversion of truth and democracy, and the amplification of hate. Image
PART ONE: WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

The front-page article, published in the Daily Telegraph, claiming “London is home to as many as 585,000 illegal migrants, equivalent to one in 12 of the city’s population” was covered across the media and widely discussed by politicians and others. Image
The claim that “One in 12 in London is illegal immigrant” is based on this report, commissioned by Thames Water, conducted by the research company Edge Analytics in February 2023, which the Telegraph says it obtained “under freedom of information-style laws for the environment”. Image
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Jan 24
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What does the English Defence League (EDL) have in common with Reform UK?

And what do the EDL and Reform UK have in common with Islamist extremists?

Quite a lot actually...

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The EDL is an Islamophobic protest movement aimed at preserving UK identity and culture in the face of a perceived Islamization of the UK and Europe.

So is Reform UK. Image
The EDL reinforce the notion of the “nationalist subject” - a fallacious conception of citizenship - that wrongly assumes members of the majoritarian culture are possessed of certain core values, beliefs, and traits that embody the true essence of the nation.

So do Reform UK. Image
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