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@D_Raval
Mar 14, 2023 • 16 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
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1/ For the #Budget you'll hear both Tories and Labour as well the media say things like "we haven't got the money". The truth is we do have money, lots of it. The Tories alone have burnt through hundreds of billions, pure waste. This thread lists some of the worst wastes.
2/ £50 billion wasted on Cameron's NHS reforms. They found the money for that but not for fair pay rises for NHS staff.
Details: everydoctor.org.uk/blog/nhs-refor…
3/ £14.7 billion wasted on Johnson's failed projects and deals
Details: mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
4/ £65 billion magiced up in days to bail out Truss' disaster budget. The jury's still out on what the final cost and damage will be from having a total idiot run the country albeit for a few weeks.
Details: reuters.com/markets/europe…
5/ £15 billion wasted on fraud and errors in Sunak's COVID support programme.
Details: committees.parliament.uk/committee/127/…
6/ £9 billion wasted on useless PPE
Details: theguardian.com/politics/2022/…
7/ £13 billion wasted on MoD projects which cancelled, overspent or written off
Details: politics.co.uk/news-in-brief/…
8/ £35 billion wasted on not dealing with tax dodging and fraud
Details: theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
9/ £9 billion wasted on dealing with pandemic tax dodging (NB this is in addition to the £35 billion detailed in no.8 on this Thread)
Details: theguardian.com/business/2022/…
10/ £205 billion wasted on Trident replacement. The "deterrent" that didn't stop Putin, isn't apparently stopping China. A total waste and if it's ever used, no of us will be left!
Details: cnduk.org/resources/205-…
11/ £415.7 billion is the amount of waste on this thread alone. Money the Tories have burnt for NO RETURN. For context the total NHS and care budget for a year is c.£180 billion. Education is c.£116 billion. This wasted money is rarely mentioned by the media.
12/ This is just the tip of the iceberg. I've given a flavour of just how much has been wasted. There's more. Also how much is lost through tax evasion? lost through not taxing wealth? lost through not taxing windfall gains by the companies who profited off the inflation spike?
13/ In short, we have enough for what we need. More than enough, so much that the Tories can afford to burn the fat end of half a trillion and have nothing to show for it. Yet so many have fallen for the "we haven't got any money" myth.
14/ That dangerous myth needs to be constantly challenged. I hope this helps you do that. Share this info, talk about it etc. Get this data socialised. The more people who get this, the quicker we can destroy the most damaging myth in politics.
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1/ Understanding that “we have no legal opportunity of effectively influencing the conduct of wars waged in our name” explains the trauma that many of us feel. Our government is actively backing a genocide. They and the media are whitewashing, making the victims..
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Massive response across the country to counter the hate "protests". The real Britain reasserting itself against the tiny minority trying to terrorise us. Highlights on this thread.
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May 7, 2023
That old myth about the royals and tourism has done the rounds like crazy. It never gets fact checked, so here some data
1/ UK sites: No royal site, free or paid is a top 10 tourist attraction by visitor numbers ImageImage
2/ Countries: 3 of the top 10 most popular countries for tourists are monarchies. Not one sensible person is saying people are going to Spain and Thailand to see the royal palaces and not going for the beaches (nowhere near the royal palaces). Same applies here (see 1). Image
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Apr 20, 2023
Labour have been consistently been making two claims about their NHS plans:
1) They will scrap the non dom tax
2) They will use it to fund the biggest expansion of the NHS workforce
As the media can’t be bothered to, I’ve fact checked this on this thread
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1) Labour ISN’T scrapping the non dom tax loophole it’s replacing it with a new tax break because they want “to attract top international talent”. In no understanding of the English language are “scrapping” and “replacing” the same thing.
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2) Will Labour’s new tax loophole for Non Dons raise enough for the “biggest expansion of the NHS workforce”?
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Jan 4, 2023
1/ I'm pulling my hair out with the crap, disingenuous media reporting of the #NHSCrisis. I've seen the BBC, Sky and ITV all cite the Tories plan to give health and social care £14.1bn more over 2 years with NO CONTEXT. So let me do it:
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2/ Total spend on health and social care is c£180 bn a year.
With inflation at c10%, to stay level they would need an extra c£18 bn a year.
The Tories plan is c.£7 bn a year, ie £11 bn, c60% less than is needed to stay level.
So in practice this extra money is a real terms cut.
3/ By not giving this context, the media are doing a propaganda job for the Tories. The Tories are trying to present a real terms cut as extra money. By parroting the line that this is "extra" money. the media are lying on the Tories behalf.
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