Thread by @MrMarkEThomas

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This thread explains why we find it hard to get our minds around what the UK government is really doing, what will happen if we let it, and how we can stop it.

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We are used to politics of left and right, where left means ‘left of centre’ and right means ‘right of centre’ … but we have never had a government as far from the centre as this one.

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As the @FT pointed out, economically,

“The government may have adopted the most extreme economic position of any major party in the developed world.”
99-percent.org/beyond-extreme/

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And this economic extremism follows from a fundamentalist position that goes far beyond economics: it is an alternative morality …
99-percent.org/what-is-the-ma…

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… which is incompatible with every major religion or ethical system.
99-percent.org/is-market-fund…

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Paradoxically, it may be easier to see how extreme this government is if you have been on the Right.

People like Ken Clarke and Max Hastings (ex Telegraph editor) have seen the danger more clearly than many on the Left.
99-percent.org/confidence-yes…

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We have to realise that things that would normally hold back a government do not impress this one.

Like facts and evidence that they are on the wrong track…
99-percent.org/why-is-this-ha…

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… or the checks and balances built into our democratic system.

All of which they are systematically undermining.
99-percent.org/saving-democra…

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Last week showed us how far the traditional balance of the BBC has been corrupted.

99-percent.org/the-bbc-balanc…

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As Ken Clarke warned us, we are dangerously close to dictatorship.
theneweuropean.co.uk/tim-walker-int…

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And all our Human rights are under threat.
99-percent.org/a-renewed-assa…

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All of this is necessary to enable the government to turn the UK into a #Plunderstate.
99-percent.org/malice-in-plun…

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In which “the government would increasingly be acting as a mechanism for redistributing wealth from the ordinary subject citizen to the sovereign individuals.”
99-percent.org/plunderland-re…

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The Michelle Mone affair and the Test & Trace scandal give us a glimpse of what this means in practice.

https://twitter.com/MrMarkEThomas/status/1596539613815906306?s=20

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So, if we do not stop them, most of us will be reduced to “ordinary subject citizens,” getting poorer year after year, with no say in how the country is run, and with an environmental catastrophe unfolding around us.

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Fortunately, the government is much more fragile than it looks.

See how many cracks have become visible since this article was written.
99-percent.org/the-fragility-…

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At the next election, we must recognise that – whatever our normal preferences – the priority is to stop this extremist government from retaining power … or it may be the last election which is even close to being open and fair.

That means voting tactically to #GTTO

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And in the meantime, we need to keep the pressure on to reduce their ability to do more damage.

The defenestration of Johnson and Truss shows that we can force change when we unite.
99-percent.org/how-to-stop-th…

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If you would like to help, please take a look at the 99% Organisation and join us.
99-percent.org/contact/