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Feb 9 • 11 tweets • 7 min read
Predictably, in light of the stitch-up Review, the Telegraph claims #PREVENT is 'politically correct'.

For years, the GROWING threat of far-right extremism is consistently played down by the UK Govt, the billionaire-owned press, & right-wing think tanks.
Political rhetoric & news framing has dragged public discourse so Far Right, that the @Conservartives' rhetoric is virtually indistinguishable from the BNP & National Front of the 1970s - their "invasion" rhetoric is reminiscent of Nazi anti-Jew rhetoric.
And speaking of anti-Jew rhetoric & the use of antisemitic tropes & antisemitic conspiracy theories, it was NEVER @UKLabour MPs or Corbyn who used this grotesque language, it was - & still is - @Conservatives & Boris Johnson:
And now - again entirely predictably - @Conservatives are calling for the return of the barbaric & uncivilised death penalty. All they have left is dividing voters, dragging public discourse as far right as possible, & filling their pockets on the way out.
People into politics have known since its inception that the partisan #PREVENT review was ALWAYS going to be about identifying a minority enemy to scapegoat, dividing voters, & dragging Britain further to the Right - it was never about fighting extremism.
The entire #PREVENT Review has been a farce from start to finish, but it's just one tiny element in an out of control wider Global free-market machinery - cannibal capitalism - that's been steadily exploiting British people & resources for forty years...

Few people have heard of Robin Simcox - Britain's 'Commissioner for Countering Extremism'.

Before his appointment, he worked for free-market think tanks based in the UK & the US, including the opaquely funded Heritage Foundation, & Henry Jackson Society.

If you really want to understand why our public services are broken, why our #NHS is on its knees, our Govt corrupt, most jobs low paid & insecure, inequality spiralling, rivers full of shit, the far-right back, & why the @Conservatives really have to go:
A long thread about explaining how corporate propaganda has evolved & developed over the last century:

A #THREAD on the philosophical foundations of the catastrophic free-market ideology which has resulted in the denigration of Britain, the exploitation of our people & resources, & a dangerous sociopathy among our political, media, & corporate elite.

And a #THREAD about the profound harm inflicted on Britain & its people over the last forty years...

#EnoughIsEnough

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Feb 9
Tonight on #bbcqt:

Descendant of William Gladstone & ex-biomedical venture capitalist, Tory MP George Freeman!

YET ANOTHER #Spiked & GB "News" regular & Brexit Party candidate, Inaya Folarin, a founding director of Toby Young's toxic hard-right Free Speech Union!

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AS USUAL, #bbcqt audiences won't know Inaya Folarin is a #Spiked & GB "News" regular, a Brexit Party candidate, & a founding director of Toby Young's toxic Free Speech Union, & a TORY IMPOSED NPG Trustee, she's framed as just a 'journalist & author' & Founder of Equiano Project. ImageImageImage
Here's a great explainer about the wider toxic network of authoritarian fringe groups & individuals who are appointed by the Tories to important institutions & bodies, who shape & influence Govt policy, & who are virtually always represented on #bbcqt

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Feb 8
Suella Braverman will shortly respond to the #PREVENT Review into extremism.

Anyone paying attention has known for years it was always going to be an anti-Islamic ideological stitch up, because it was led - somewhat ironically - by ideological extremist William Shawcross.
Of course, there is ZERO chance that senior @Conservatives' relentless use of explicitly antisemitic tropes & conspiracy theories, & other divisive & dangerously irresponsible far-right "invasion" rhetoric will get a mention in Shawcross's #PREVENT Review.
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Feb 7
#THREAD

The new Tory Party Deputy Chair pushed the antisemitic conspiracy theory of "cultural Marxism", & attended #antisemitism awareness training after being an active member of a FB group in which other members supported Tommy Robinson & promoted Soros conspiracy theories.
The confused infantile culture war "patriotic" nationalist & Tory Party Deputy Chair, #30pLee, refused to watch England in the #EURO2020 final because he was boycotting their matches over the players’ decision to stand up to #racism by taking the knee.

theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
Some Tory MPs know that their divisive & childish culture war strategy is toxic.

One senior Tory MP described Deputy Party Chair #30pLee refusing to watch England in the Euros because they took the knee: “It was absolutely tragic... a laughing stock".

theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
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Feb 6
#THREAD

More propaganda from the free-market extremist Telegraph, who claim 'Head of #NHS review General Gordon Messenger says more money won't solve #NHS crisis!' Messenger's review recommendations were dismissed as "either peripheral or so vague as to be virtually worthless".
In June 2022, General Messenger completed a review of leadership in the English #NHS considering the "pay & incentives" of its most senior figures, as well as the "effective systems for intervention & recovery in both providers & integrated care systems".

The Review called for improved leadership & made it perfectly clear the #NHS actually has “far too few managers” with low spending on administration & planning compared to other healthcare systems.
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Feb 4
🚨@BBC CLARIFICATION🚨

During a @BBCNews interview about the prescription of statins, consultant cardiologist (& imho grifting fearmongering conspiracist outlier) Dr Aseem Malhotra made unprompted claims about excess deaths & Covid vaccines which were not challenged at the time. Image
Dr Malhotra referred to British Heart Foundation (BHF) figures showing there’ve been just over 30,000 excess deaths involving heart disease since the pandemic began.
Dr Malhotra said: “what my own research has found, and this is something that is probably a likely contributory factor, is that the covid mRNA vaccines do carry a cardiovascular risk.”

He acknowledged ‘uncertainty’ at what is causing excess deaths...
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Feb 4
#THREAD

Who is Alan Mabbutt?

A new Tory website paints union donations to @UKLabour, collected from workers in every sector, as some kind of problem.

In 2017, @Conservatives received 10 TIMES MORE in donations than Labour, much of it from dodgy Russians & non-dom tax-avoiders! Image
The website is "Promoted by Alan Mabbutt on behalf of the Conservative Party".

In 2021 he was (still is) the Conservative Party DG & Registered Treasurer, & was named by the Electoral Commission in this damning report into Johnson's #wallpapergate lies.

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In 2015, the Tories were embroiled in a scandal under Cameron when it was revealed they were spending £100,000/month on Facebook ads, the bulk spent on collecting email addresses - back then a new method of bombarding voters with political messaging...

theguardian.com/politics/2015/…
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