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Sarah Clarke Profile picture
@TrialByTruth
Dec 15, 2022 • 77 tweets • 28 min read • Read on X
This the trajectory of a years long battle in the US in just four tweets ImageImage
Debating the details based on the values attached to 'woke' and 'CRT' is pointless. Maybe better to follow the money and the history and massive impacts
Then check out this from GBNews and the quoted thread about a group encouraging a letter writing campaign in the UK. It is not a good trajectory
More related from @BylineTimes bylinetimes.com/2022/06/08/cha…
Backed by a huge amount of money and influence

"The EPF analysis found that over US$702 million had been spent in the European region... against the right to abortion, against LGBT rights, against children’s rights and against equality overall." aidsmap.com/news/may-2021/…
If we default to more fear based on labels and abandoning faith in others, it only plays into hands of those who gain from the division

Almost all of us can compromise when we sit down, listen, respect our myriad differences. Very sad to think of this happening here
Some other background here on the operational tactics used beyond the moral imperative. A lot of genuine concerns have been blown up and demonised for political purposes and the only winners are all the backers
If we persecute any group just for who they are or what they believe in, if they are not infringing on rights of others, then we all lose. When we spend time with most people, they want a fair hearing, honesty, trust

All things being intentionally eroded
Trying to counter an accusation with vague definition and self-referencing 'evidence' (for CRT similar to voter fraud stories) is almost impossible in the moment. An inherent feature is fostering distrust in other sources

A compare and contrast of tactics rand.org/pubs/perspecti…
Can you spot the differences? vox.com/policy-and-pol…
Here is Bannon's Breitbart with an advertorial for debunked claims from that school letter writing campaign Image
This was The Times reporting. It would be good to equip schools with means to differentiate valid complaints from the astroturfing

Journalists should be checking the sources, backers and claims Image
It links to this perennial call to protect 'free speech' with change being pushed to task Office for Students with policing. This has forever been incredibly selective
Some concerning history of the then chair of Office for Students

Might Wharton picking up culture war tips and endorsing Orbán be indication of the way this is going?

Just keen on us employing some of the critical thought being bled out of history education /END
In case you are unaware of Bannon's history. The source of a huge amount of prevailing 'free speech' advocacy
More here on actions, but it is all a part of a larger campaign to promote the restructuring of our economy bylinetimes.com/2019/06/21/the…
The next phase of which is being pushed with indecent speed

The Retained EU Law Bill, while we deal with effects of more austerity, service collapse, Brexit, Covid, war in Ukraine

And a resurgence of the bad faith reporting on rights for migrants, workers, LGBTQ communities
Tying some of that back together
Noting Bannon is currently in jail

And the way we were all sold the promise of the changes in the UK

The video is US Embassy in 2018.

I am always willing to talk about the finer points of policy, but will always push back on deception
Plus the threatening of critics in the face of all rational evidence to keep trying the same again while expecting results to differ. We need evidence, honesty, and some signs of integrity

We need some more true public duty
Is Hungary a good model for public policy, versus strengthening democracy?
Another look into govt priorities, here on data protection. It is not growth and innovation Vs regulation. It is a public welfare based balance with a robust risk assessment. Absent here
As reported for too many of the planned changes. Is it too much to ask for honesty and due diligence on behalf of our people?
Is it too much to ask for better than this ministerial attitude when asked about the excessive executive powers?

Noting the prior extract on missing impact assessments included the Online Safety Bill. We must do better
It is not enough to spin a world-beating promise and deflect the blame for impact onto others in a constant parade of new enemies

What confidence does that give about handling of the inevitable
missteps and financial excesses that will come with deregulation?
Flint Michigan? Texas freeze? The sewage in water with a return of Polio. Manston Diptheria cases

Davies on the lack of pre-Brexit sectoral impact assessments

Might we need more care and due diligence than evidenced?
Might we need more than thin reassurance?
Might we need better than leaders with this kind of track record? When I do diligence for deals I assess truth of claims, delivery feasibility and the reputation and track record of firms

Perhaps that explains my constant questioning of successive ministers
As has Rory Stewart. We deserve better. We deserve competence, honesty, focus on broad welfare

A government that cannot build consensus will always resort to blamestorming. At what cost to us?
Plus this coopted media nonsense
Even veterans of the furthest right outlets call this out now
The reference to Thunberg obviously leveraging her exposure due to the Tate debacle. Could there feasibly be any energy firm interests at play here?
Not such a wild bit of speculation
Might there be too many tangled and vested interests, of the kind that led to this furious resignation of our prior counter fraud minister, Lord Agnew?
Might that be why this huge budget for PR is deemed necessary?
While we try to retain faith in the prior checks on parliamentary misconduct
What is the price of retaining power?

Seemingly trust, truth, and integrity. Indicative anecdote from author of books about the rise of the right in the US @rickperlstein. Do we really see substantial change with Sunak?
Where is the substance to back up the promises? Instead we have his commitment to crack down on the unions and protests. How does that work to curb the NHS staff attrition?

Look better, spin better, work to boost us past concerns about plans for deregulation and privatisation? Image
Like I suggest here. It is Brexit redux
Almost at the edges of irony there is a case to challenge Shapps' plan to break strikes now leveraging the ECHR
Surpassing the ironic edge this is Paterson challenging his sanction for lobbying for Randox. Using the ECHR to sue the government

While staunch advocate for ECHR withdrawal and repeal of Human Rights Act. Fact trumping fiction theguardian.com/politics/2022/…
More on that story at the time

Paterson's case was leveraged to try and neuter the parliamentary standards body. A story with side order of close relationships with media, lobbyists and other interests bylinetimes.com/2020/11/02/min…
Just more perspective on this kind of policy in the most recent budget
But a survey of less than 10 history programmes, used by The Telegraph to draw the conclusion that the BBC is betraying Churchill, is the thing that should occupy our attention?
Other history that I suggest is worth a bit of your time to properly research
Along with this LSE study shared by a Bush and Reagan admin alumni who has been getting a lot of déja vu about the UK ImageImage
Or this from Japan on inequality

Link to PDF: mof.go.jp/english/pri/pu… Image
Or this banking industry research
Or this from the @FT recently
Or this from @MrMarkEThomas
Or this, from the @FT's data analyst
Then perhaps contrast to this bylinetimes.com/2022/10/10/bri…
Adding to this thread, with the CRT landing on our shores as another US / Hungarian shibboleth for the kind of people they want out of our higher education it is worth some research on the future that indicates

@ruthbenghiat is commenting on the same skewed race outrage farming
Here is Cruda reviewing her book 'Strongmen' for @BylineTimes, this context is striking and looking familiar bylinetimes.com/2020/12/28/str…
Circling back to the top of the thread
The deeply sunk costs in clearing regulatory and rights decks, low tax for the wealthy, less scrutiny

Advertising sustainable growth, but eroding household, infrastructure, energy, public service resilience

Now just a fight to retain power, curb critics and weaken unions?
Farage at CPAC Texas on universities
Another related thread quoting the same and similar sources ICYI. Is this what we want for our great country?
Thread continues here for those who didn't click 'Show Replies' just keen for us to not forget all the history and facts
Additionally worth noting primary critics of this Retained EU Law Bill delay. All familiar hard Brexit names
Mr Rees-Mogg features heavily. A retrospective on his family history
He also appears in a starring role in this from @MrMarkEThomas. I don't need anyone to agree, just perhaps use as food for more thought
Another related legal opinion on #REUL
When we have pushed The Sunday Times health correspondent to this point. Like so many experts, tired of presenting the facts and being ignored
Or, in extremes, receiving death threats
Not the first time and likely not the last
Is this honestly obtained power the Tory government are reusing 2016 / 2017 / 2019 tactics to try and retain? Image
We should not all have to do a deep and detailed study of proposals, we should be able to trust our government
And the way things are reported in certain allegedly independent media
Transparency and truth are not a nice to have thing. They are both essential bylinetimes.com/2022/09/14/ame…
As viscerally illustrated by #NHSCrisis
And my descent into desperate cynicism
But how can anyone stay quiet while so many in our communities die?

When NHS staff are threatened with professional retribution for speaking out or striking, we need to speak for them
And be willing to accept the truth about persistent government tactics
With some well documented history
Be willing to accept that the main motivation for division is it's lucrative Image
Worthy historical codicil for the thread

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